Easy Chocolate Brownies

 

 

1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup butter or margarine; (1/2 stick)
8 oz. Hershey's© semi-sweet baking chocolate, broken into pieces
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. each baking soda, salt
3/4 cup chopped nuts; optional

    Heat oven to 350ºF (175ºC).  Grease a 9x9" baking pan.  In medium saucepan, combine sugar, evaporated milk and butter.  Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils; remove from heat.  Add chocolate, stirring until melted; beat in eggs and vanilla.  Stir in flour, baking soda, salt and nuts, until well blended.  Pour into prepared pan.  Bake 30 - 35 minutes, until brownies just begin to pull away from sides of pan.  Cool completely in pan on wire rack.  Cut into squares.  Makes about 16 brownies.