Mind-blowing Brownies

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups butter
• 6 large eggs
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (a splash, according to lori)
• ground cinnamon or instant espresso or kahlua
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 1/4 cups cocoa
• 2 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 cream together the sugar and butter.
• 2 beat in all the other ingredients (seriously, this is all she said!).
• 3 place in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan.
• 4 bake in a preheated 350° oven for 30 minutes or so.
• 5 you can frost them if you like (lori mixed butter, cream cheese, confectioners' sugar, kahlua and cinnamon, but didn't tell me the amounts -- again she just said to beat 'em all together!).