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Jack-o'-Lantern Brownies

Hosting a Halloween party? Use a cookie cutter to easily cut these homemade chocolate brownies into pumpkin shapes, then give them personality with orange, black and green frosting. "Our grandchildren thought these were great!" writes Flo Burtnett from her home in Gage, Oklahoma.

12 ServingsPrep: 20 min. Bake: 20 min. + cooling

Ingredients

3/4 cup butter, melted
1-1/2 cups sugar
1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 eggs
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup baking cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 can (16 ounces) vanilla frosting
Orange paste food coloring
Green and black decorating gel
Candy corn and milk chocolate M&M's, optional

Directions

In a large bowl, cream the butter, sugar and vanilla until light and
fluffy. Beat in eggs. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and
salt; gradually add to butter mixture and mix well.
Line a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking pan with waxed paper; grease the
paper. Spread batter evenly in pan. Bake at 350° for 18-22
minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool
on a wire rack.
Run a knife around edge of pan. Invert brownies onto a work surface
and remove waxed paper. Cut brownies with a 3-in. pumpkin cookie
cutter, leaving at least 1/8 in. between each shape. (Discard scraps

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Tint frosting with orange food coloring; frost brownies. Use green
gel to create the pumpkin stems and black gel and candy corn and
M&M's to decorate the faces if desired. Yield: about 1 dozen.

Nutrition Facts: 1 serving (1 each) equals 422 calories, 20 g fat (9 g saturated fat), 84 mg cholesterol, 275 mg sodium, 59 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 3 g protein.