This super easy recipe for saucepan brownies uses just one pot and one pan for a perfect version of everyone’s favorite chocolate dessert!
Let me start by saying I have NO BUSINESS discussing brownies at the current moment, because the Southern husband and I are just back from our vacation in Mexico where I ate ALL the tacos and drank ALL the margaritas.
We are therefore currently on a strict soup and salad diet until I can button my jeans again, but that doesn’t mean that YOU can’t enjoy the deliciousness that is saucepan brownies, so I decided to live vicariously through you, brownie-wise.
I should start by saying that I have made many brownie recipes over the years, but this is the recipe that the Southern husband declared is my Best Brownie Recipe Ever.
(Side note: Because of my Irish girl paler than pale skin, I wore a hat everywhere we went in Mexico, and took pictures everywhere we went in Mexico, so the patient Southern husband got whopped in the face with my hat on the regular…
…and with that I promise not to show you any more vacation pictures. FOR NOW. )
Anyway, along with the fact that this recipe bakes up 16 classic, fudgy, chocolatey brownies that are everything you want in a brownie, they also cook up in exactly one pot and one pan. Which makes them even more delicious in my book!
Here’s how you make saucepan brownies!
Grab the nearest saucepan, and melt up some butter. Add in some unsweetened chocolate and stir it up over medium heat until everything is melted together.
Now stir in some sugar, some vanilla, some eggs and then some flour. All in the same saucepan. You can add walnuts if you like, and you can leave them out if you don’t.
This super easy recipe for saucepan brownies uses just one pot and one pan for a perfect version of everyone's favorite chocolate dessert!Now pour this chocolate scrumptiousness into an 8 inch square baking dish that you have cleverly lined with parchment paper that extends over the sides of the pan for easy brownie extraction.
Pop the pan in the oven and 30 minutes later your kitchen will smell like Chocolate Heaven. Now comes the hardest part.
THE WAITING.
Because as tempting as it is to cut right into those brownies, you need to let them cool off completely so you can cut them into squares of chocolate perfection.
Is there anything better than a brownie and a glass of milk?
Now please go make and enjoy them now for me while I settle in with my carrot sticks and cottage cheese. (But I gotta tell you, the margaritas were worth it!)
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Saucepan Brownies
Prep Time: 5 minutes- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 16 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Stovetop, Oven
- Cuisine: American
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This super easy recipe for saucepan brownies uses just one pot and one pan for a perfect version of everyone’s favorite chocolate dessert!
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons butter
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped into small bits
- 1 ¾ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts (optional but so good!)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 and line an 8×8 square pan with parchment paper or nonstick foil.Let some of the paper or foil extend over two sides of the pan (this will make it easier to get the brownies out when they are done!)
- Put the butter in a medium sized saucepan and melt it over medium heat. When the butter is melted, take the pan off the burner, add the chocolate and stir until the chocolate is melted.
- Add the sugar and vanilla to the saucepan and stir. Now stir in the eggs, then the flour, then the nuts.
- Transfer the batter from the saucepan to the baking pan and bake for 35-40 minutes.
- Cool completely (I know! So hard!) and then use the edges of the parchment or foil to lift out of the pan. Cut into squares and enjoy!
I will help you out and make and eat these brownies for you while you have bunny food. :) And I won’t torture you with the fact that I am going to add salted caramel chips to the batter before baking instead of walnuts.
You are a true friend, as always! (Goes back to carrot sticks) :) xo