Sure, you can use the recipe on the ingredient box, but where’s the fun in that?

Prep time: 15 minutes
Total time: 50 minutes

Ingredients

• 4 squares Baker’s Unsweetened Baking Chocolate
• ¾ cup (1½ sticks) butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs (4 eggs at altitude)
• 1 tsp almond extract
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup sliced almonds
• ½ cup maraschino cherries, chopped

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350ºF.  Grease a 9×13 inch baking pan.
2. Microwave the chocolate and butter in a large bowl on High for 2 minutes, or until butter is melted. Take out and stir until chocolate is melted.
3. Stir in sugar, eggs, vanilla, and almond extract.
4. Add flour, almonds, cherries; mix well.
5. Spread mix into the pan.
6. Bake 30-35 minutes, or until a toothpick in the center comes out with fudgy crumbs. (Do not overbake!)
7. Cool in pan on wire rack.

Makes 24 brownies … depending on how you cut them up

Source: Baker’s Chocolate box, plus additions (cherries, almond extract, almonds instead of pecans)