MJ's Mistaken Brownies

Ingredients

Butter to grease pan, plus 3/4 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
2 tbsp vanilla
6 heaped tbsp cocoa
1-1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 11x17 inch pan.
• In bowl, blend sugar and butter well combined and smooth. And eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla, scraping down batter to ensure everything is fully incorporated. Sift together cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt.
• Add to butter mixture and mix only until mixture comes together and there are no longer any yellow streaks.
• Add batter to prepared pan. Bake 35-40 minutes in preheated oven, checkingafter 28 minutes.
• Remove from oven once a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs. (If you wait for toothpick to come out clean, you will have overbaked brownies.)

These are cakey brownies that come from a California family originaly from Nebraska. Yield: about 12 brownies.