Ingredients

• 1 cup - powdered sugar
• 3/4 cup - flour
• 1/2 cup - butter
• 1/2 cup - roasted peanuts, crushed
• 1/2 tsp - baking powder
• 3 tbsp - cocoa
• 1/2 tsp - vanilla essence
• 2 eggs
• For Icing:
• 1.5 cup - icing sugar
• 1/2 cup - peanuts
• 2 tbsp - cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp - butter
• 1/2 tsp - vanilla essence
• hot water

How to Make Peanut Brownies

• Grease a baking tray (8 and a half square inch). Line it with butter paper and grease the paper.
• Preheat the oven to 170 degrees centigrade.
• Melt butter in a sauce pan.
• Add cocoa and cook stirring for 1 minute.
• Remove from fire and cool.
• Mix flour with baking powder.
• Beat eggs with essence and add to the cocoa mixture.
• Add the flour, sugar and peanuts.
• Pour in the prepared tin.
• Bake till a tooth pick inserted in the middle of the tin comes out clean (About 20-25 minutes).
• Take out the tin and cool for 5 minutes.
• Turn out on a baking tray, remove the paper and turn again on a wire rack.
• Cool completely before icing.
• For Icing: Melt the butter. Add cocoa powder and cook for few seconds. Remove from fire.
• Add the icing sugar and vanilla.
• Add boiling hot water, little by little till the icing is a soft paste.
• Pour over the brownie and spread with a pallet knife dipped in hot water.
• Sprinkle peanuts on top. When the icing is set, cut the brownie into 12 pieces.