We’ve been making these brownies for five years now and they never get old. If Mom doesn’t put the extra’s in the freezer, there won’t be any left by 9 o’clock the next morning! I’ll admit that it isn’t just the boys that eat it. 
I snitch some too! We’ll often make them for company or for various functions. Every one loves them and always asks for the recipe!
Taken from the No Guesswork Cookbook
Yield: 16-18 servings
10″x15″ pan
Oven: 350 degrees
Base:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup pecans, chopped
3/4 cup butter, cold
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 Tbsp. water
Combine dry ingredients in 2 quart bowls. Cut butter into 1/2 Tbsp-size pieces. Add to dry ingredients. Cut in with pastry blender until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Add vanilla and water and mix until moistened. (Mixture should look crumbly, like streusel.) Set aside 3/4 cup of crumbs for topping. Press remaining crumbs into baking pan to form base of brownies.
Filling:
2/3 cup flour
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/16 tsp. baking soda
3/4 cup melted butter
3 eggs, beaten
1 Tbsp. + 2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 Tbsp. corn syrup or brown rice syrup
Combine dry ingredients in 2 quart bowl. Add butter and mix until moistened. Add eggs, vanilla, and corn syrup to filling mixture. Mix until evenly blended and smooth. Pour over base mixture and spread evenly. Crumble reserved base mixture over top. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until barely firm. DO NOT OVER-BAKE! Cool completely before cutting.
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March 15th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Looks yummy! I like how you don’t let the brownies bake all the way – they are much better gooey than crisp and dried out. Have you tried the recipe with other kinds of nuts?
March 15th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
No, actually we haven’t. We should though; I am sure it would be just as good!
March 15th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
We have that cookbook and have made lots of the stuff in it
. Lol there’s a funny story about me making the macaroni and cheese in there 
. It was pretty humiliating at the time, but now I can laugh 
.
Anyway, I don’t think we’ve ever made that brownie recipe (I could be wrong of course, I’m not the main chef of the household!), I’ll have to mention it to Mom
.
~Kels
March 15th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Mmmmm!!! I just took them out of the oven!!!:D Our whole house smells wonderful!!!:D What an aroma they have!!! I used walnuts instead of pecans and they taste great!!! My mother and brother are snitching from the pan!!! I didn’t use corn syrup, though, because I forgot it!:(
March 15th, 2011 at 11:14 pm
Glad you like them!! They’re probably one of our favorite brownies.
March 16th, 2011 at 1:35 am
Anything with chocolate in it is acceptable to me. =)