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Amaretto Brownies Supreme

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Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 2 oz semi-sweet chocolate
  • 2 eggs well beaten
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup pecans coarsely chopped
  • 1/4 cup amaretto liqueur

Chocolate Amaretto Frosting

  • 3 tlb Butter
  • 1 1/2 cups confectioners sugar sifted
  • 4 1/2 tsp amaretto liquer
  • 4 1/2 tsp cocoa
  • 4 1/2 tsp hot coffee

White Almond Icing

  • 1/3 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 dash salt
  • 1/4 tsp almond flavoring
  • 1/4 cup half and half
  • 1/4 tsp almond flavoring
  • 1/4 cup half and half

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 325°.
  • Melt butter and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat.
  • Remove from heat let cool then stir in eggs.
  • Add sugar, flour, salt, and pecans. Pour batter in a greased 8” sq pan and bake for 30-35 minutes.
  • Brownies should still be soft. Remove from oven and let cool slightly.
  • Poke holes in brownies with fork, and pour amaretto liqueur over top. Refrigerate overnight.
  • Spread Chocolate amaretto Frosting over brownies and then drizzle white almond icing in a criss-cross pattern on top. Cut into bars.

Chocolate Amaretto Frosting

  • Combine butter, sugar, amaretto liqueur, cocoa powder, and coffee and beat until smooth.

White Almond Icing

  • Combine sugar, salt, and almond extract. Add half and half, a little at a time, mixing until smooth. .

Notes

Heidi Glockhammer, Kino, 1995