Dangerous Microwave Chocolate Chip Brownies - Too Easy, Too Quick

DANGER! These microwave brownies can be made in about 15 minutes! With a few simple ingredients you may very well already have in your pantry, these are easy to make, and quick to bake. They are NOT low-calorie or low-carb or low-anything!

Ingredients:

2 eggs
1 Cup Granulated Sugar
1/2 Tsp salt
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
1 stick Butter or Margarine (1/4 lb)
3/4 Cup unsifted all-purpose flour
1/2 Cup Cocoa
Chocolate Chips - to taste

Also needed:

mixer of some sort
8" microwavable square dish (rounded corners are okay as in corningware), greased
spatula or spoon

Beat the eggs, sugar, salt and vanilla together at medium speed for approximately 1 minute or until light yellow.

Melt the butter in the microwave (usually takes about a minute or less, avoid boiling over). Add the melted butter to the egg mixture. Beat until thoroughly blended. Slowly add flour and cocoa a little at a time until all the dry ingredients have been incorporated. Stir in the chocolate chips with a spoon.

Spread the batter in the greased microwaveable dish. The size of the cookware will determine the thickness of your brownies, so if you like thick brownies, use an 8" square, if you want to feed more people or prefer your brownies a bit thinner and drier, use a larger pan.

Microwave on high for 6 to 7 minutes. Since microwave ovens vary, and the size of your pan may vary too, these times are approximate. What you are looking for is the top of the brownies to be dry, and they will have pulled away from the sides of the pan. I prefer my brownies to be slightly under-cooked rather than over-cooked if I have to choose. Perfect is perfect of course.

Cool for a few minutes (ten should be enough) and cut. If you let them cool too long, the tops may be very hard and difficult to cut, but if you don't cool the brownies at all, the insides will stick to your knife. An 8" square pan makes 12 or 16 brownies (3 x 4 or 4 x 4), and if the corners are rounded you probably shouldn't count those four (the cook gets those by rights!)

You can double the recipe for a larger pan: 4 eggs, 2 Cups sugar, 1 tsp salt, 2 tsp vanilla, 2 sticks of butter, 1 1/2 Cups Flour, 1 Cup cocoa, and of course twice as many chocolate chips.

If you don't have chocolate chips on hand, Hershey's kisses are a decadent replacement. Just please remove the foil wrapping first!