BROWNIE WITH WALNUT & CHOCO CHIPS & CHOCOLATE ICING

"My name says it all" turned one on 19th Dec'08, so to celebrate its b-day I made these chocolate brownies with walnut and choco chips.

Ingredients:-

Cocoa-unsweetened - 3/4 Cup
Baking soda -1/2 tsp
Melted butter-2/3 cup
Boiling water-1/2 cup
Granulated sugar -2 cups
Lightly beaten -2 eggs
All-purpose flour -1 1/3 cups

Vanilla extract -1 tsp
Salt -1/4 tsp
Coarsely chopped walnuts -1/2 cup
Semisweet chocolate chips-2 cups

Ingredients for Icing: -
Powdered sugar -2 cups

Cocoa - 4 tbsp

Heavy cream or half and half milk

Vanilla extract- 1 tsp

Procedure:-

• In a large bowl, combine cocoa and baking soda, blend in 1/3 cup melted butter.
• Add boiling water, stir until well blended.
• Stir in sugar, beaten eggs and remaining 1/3 cup butter.
• Stir in flour and salt.
• Stir nuts and the chocolate chips into chocolate brownies batter.
• Pour chocolate brownie batter into a greased 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
• Bake at 350° for 35 to 40 minutes or until chocolate brownies are firm and begin to pull away from sides of pan.
• Cool before spreading icing.
• To make icing mix all the ingredients together with required quantity of heavy cream or half and half milk to get desired spreading consistency.
• Spread icing on cooled brownies and cut into squares.
• Garnish with choco-chips and chopped walnut.