Chocolate-Cherry Brownies
By: Anonymous
Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 5:58pm

Ingredients




cup butter or margarine, cut up
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate squares, coarsely chopped
4 lrgs eggs
2 cups firmly packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
teaspoon salt
cup hazelnuts, toasted, skinned and chopped
cup dried cherries, chopped
cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preparation

1 Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13x9-inch baking pan. 2 Combine butter and chocolate in microwaveproof bowl. Microwave on Medium2 to 2 1/2 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes, until melted. Cool. 3 Beat eggs and sugar in large mixer bowl at medium-high speed until light and ribbon forms when beaters are lifted, 5 to 8 minutes. Beat in vanilla. 4 At low speed, beat in chocolate mixture. Stir in flour and salt until blended. Stir in nuts and cherries. Spoon into prepared pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top. 5 Bake 30 to 33 minutes, until barely set in center. Cool. Cut into 2 1/4x2-inch bars. 6 Makes 2 dozen. 7 Brownies will never be the same! Dried cherries add such irresistible flavor that once you taste the difference, plain chocolate just won't do.