#2020 - Chocolate Peanut Butter Brownies

(by Shirley McNevich)

3/4 cup softened butter
3/4 cup Jif creamy peanut butter
1 3/4 cups white sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
4 beaten eggs
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 cup Hershey's cocoa

Melt the butter. In a bowl add melted butter and peanut butter--stir until peanut butter melts. Add white sugar and vanilla--stir. Add beaten eggs--stir. Add flour, baking powder and salt--stir just until mixed. Reserve 1 3/4 cups of the batter and add the cocoa to the reserved batter--stir. Pour the chocolate reserved batter into a greased 9 x 13 cake pan. Pour the peanut butter batter over the top of the chocolate batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until brownies start to pull away from the sides of the pan. Cool completely.