Brownies provide quick pick-me-up

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The Advertiser held a brownie contest last month. Rebecca Breyer • The Honolulu Advertiser

Very Chocolatey Brownies

• 4 squares unsweetened baking chocolate
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (about half a 12-ounce package)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-by-13-inch pan with nonstick spray.

Melt the baking chocolate and the butter over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Stir until melted and remove from heat. (This could also be done in a glass bowl in the microwave.) Stir in sugar, then add beaten eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour until well blended and add chocolate chips. Pour into pan. Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick poked into center comes out mostly clean (a few moist crumbs are OK). Cool completely in the pan, then cut into squares. Makes about 35 medium-sized squares.