Buttermilk Brownies With Frosting Recipes

Steps:

• In a saucepan, bring butter, cocoa and water just to a boil. Cool. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the sugar, flour and baking soda and salt. Pour over dry ingredients; mix well. , Add buttermilk, eggs, vanilla, and food coloring if desired. Mix until well combined. Pour into a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. , For frosting, melt butter, cocoa and buttermilk in a saucepan. Stir in the sugar, vanilla and salt. Spread over warm cake. Top with nuts if desired.

Steps:

• In mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
• In medium saucepan, combine 1 cup butter, 1 cup water, and 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa.
• Bring mixture just to boiling, stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat.
• Add chocolate mixture to dry ingredients and beat until thoroughly combined.
• Add eggs, the 1/2 cup buttermilk, and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla. Beat for 1 minute (batter will be thin).
• Pour batter into greased and floured 15x10x1 baking pan. Bake at 350F for about 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
• FROSTING:.
• In medium saucepan, combine 1/4 cup butter, 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, and 3 tablespoons buttermilk. Bring to boiling; remove from heat. Add powdered sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat til smooth. Pour warm frosting over warm brownies, spreading evenly. Cool in pan on wire rack, then cut into bars.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Bring the water to a low boil; add the butter and the 4 tbsp of cocoa.
• In a mixing bowl combine the brownie dry ingredients and the sugar.
• Slowly mix in the water/butter/cocoa mixture.
• Whisk the egg and buttermilk together, and quickly add to the batter.
• Mix until combined, making sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl.
• Grease and dust with cocoa a half sheet pan (restaurant supply style), or line with parchment paper.
• Pour batter into the pan and tap the edge of the pan to settle the batter out.
• Bake for about 20 min or until brownies test done.
• You may need to turn the pan once half way through to even out the cooking, depending on your oven. I do just out of habit.
• To make frosting, combine all the frosting ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix until smooth and creamy.
• Put frosting in the fridge until you are ready to frost. It is easier to frost if it is a little cool.
• Bring it out of the fridge and let it come up to almost room temperature (Should be spreadable, but soft like room temperature butter).
• Remove brownies from the oven and allow them to cool completely before frosting.
• Cut with a clean knife and enjoy.
• To make a cake, doubling the recipe yields enough batter to fill 2 9-inch round cake pans. I highly recommend using parchment on the bottom and greasing the side to get the best results when you try to remove the cake from the pan.

Steps:

• Brownies: In saucepan combine butter, cocoa, 2 cups sugar and 1 cup water (first four ingredients).
• Bring to boil; stirring constantly.
• Remove from heat and set aside.
• In large mixing bowl, blend together flour, soda and salt.
• In small bowl combine buttermilk, eggs and vanilla; whisk lightly with a fork.
• Pour buttermilk mixture into dry ingredients; mix until smooth.
• Add cocoa mixture gradually with mixer on low setting.
• Mix until well blended (flour and buttermilk mixture will be thick and likely need to be scraped from sides of bowl to blend thoroughly).
• Pour into greased 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 x 2 1/4 baking dish.
• Bake at 375 deg F for 25 minutes; test with toothpick.
• Immediately pour Frosting over brownies; spread evenly.
• (Brownies will be very tender so spread gently.) Cool; cut into bars and serve.
• Frosting: In saucepan, mix 1/4 cup butter, 3 tablespoons cocoa and 3 tablespoons buttermilk.
• Cook and stir till boiling (mixture will be slightly curdled); remove from heat.
• Beat in 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
• Fold in English walnuts.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Lightly spray a 9" square baking pan with vegetable oil spray.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
• In a small bowl, lightly whisk the egg whites. Whisk in the remaining brownie ingredients.
• Whisk into the flour mixture until well-blended.
• Pour the batter into the baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool in the pan on a cooling rack.
• In a small bowl, stir together the sugar and cocoa powder. Stir in the vanilla extract, then gradually stir in the milk until the frosting is spreading consistency.
• Spread over the cool brownies. Cut into 16 squares.

Steps:

• Bring to a boil the oil, margarine, water and cocoa.
• Pour this over the sifted flour, sugar and salt mixture.
• To this add buttermilk, baking soda, eggs and vanilla.
• Pour batter into a greased and floured jelly roll pan.
• (Mixture will be thin.)
• Bake at 375 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes.
• Frosting: Boil the margarine, cocoa and buttermilk together one minute.
• Add sugar and vanilla.
• Beat.
• Stir in nuts.
• Spread on cooled brownies.