The Bubbly Baker: Buckeye Brownies

Greetings,

The other day I was pretty bored at work and one of my co-workers brought over a dessert cook book from Goose Perry Patch (http://www2.gooseberrypatch.com/). The recipes were pretty simple and most were in the style of semi-homemade. The one recipe that popped out at me the most was the Buckeye Brownies. It has two of my favorite things chocolate and peanut butter.
In the book it says to use boxed brownies. I could not do this. Instead I used the delicious Hershey Brownie recipe (recipe is made for 13x9 in pan I cut the frosting and melted chocolate in half because I used an 8x8 in pan).

Hershey Brownies

Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

1 Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 9-inch square baking pan.
2 Stir together butter, sugar and vanilla in bowl. Add eggs; beat well with spoon. Stir together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually add to egg mixture, beating until well blended. Stir in nuts, if desired. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan.
3 Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Prepare CREAMY BROWNIE FROSTING; spread over brownies. Cut into squares. About 16 brownies.

As your letting the brownies cool mix together the peanut butter frosting.
After the brownies have cooled frost them, it should look something like this............

Peanut Butter Frosting
Ingredients

2 c. powdered sugar
1/2 c. butter
8oz jar of creamy peanut butter

Directions

Mix powered sugar, 1/2 cup butter and peanut butter. Mix well and spread over cooled brownies. Chill for 1 hour.

Lastly, you need to make the melted chocolate

6 tsp of butter

6 oz package of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Melt together chocolate chips and butter in a sauce pan over low eat, stirring occasionally until melted. Spread over brownies. Let cool and cut into squares.