Almond Brown Sugar Brownies

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup shortening
• 5 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 1 3/4 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 1 1/4 cups chopped almonds
• 3/4 cup chopped almond paste
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 4 eggs

Recipe

• 1 heat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 heat shortening and chocolate in a 3 quart saucepan, until melted. remove from heat.
• 3 stir in remaining ingredients, in this order : flour, sugar,almond paste, almonds,eggs, baking powder, and salt.
• 4 spread into a greased 13x9x2 baking dish.
• 5 bake until brownies start to pull away from sides of pan . after 20 minutes, you need to check every 2 minutes. it should not be longer than 30 minutes.
• 6 do not overbake.
• 7 when done take them out and let cool for 6-8 minute.
• 8 cut into 2x1 bars.