Frosted Brownies

 My dear friend, Carol, is famous for these brownies. They are dense, chewy and topped with a delicious chocolate frosting. What could go wrong?! 

Ingredients
For the Brownie:

• 2 cups butter (I use salted, if you don't have salted then add 2 tsp salt when you add the flour), melted
• 4 cups sugar
• 8 eggs
• 1 1/2 cup cocoa
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 3 1/2 cups of flour

For the Frosting:

• 4 Tbsp cocoa
• 8 cups powdered sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2/3 cup butter
• 2 tsp vanilla

Directions

• Stir together the melted butter and sugar.
• Add the eggs, cocoa, vanilla, flour (and salt if using).
• Mix well
• Pour into a greased 10x15 jelly roll pan.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
• let cool before frosting

Frosting

• Mix cocoa and powdered sugar together.
• Heat the milk and butter together (I do this in a glass measuring cup in the microwave)
• Add the vanilla to the milk/butter mixture and then beat it into the dry ingredients.
• Beat until nice and fluffy