These Lunch Lady Brownies are a chocolate lovers dream come true. Rich, fudge like, and topped with an incredible frosting!
Do you remember the brownies served at school?? I don’t really remember the food served (perhaps I blocked it out), but the brownies….I most definitely remember those!
Anytime I saw them on the menu, no matter what was for lunch, I purchased it because I wanted a brownie.
They were incredible! The frosting was by far my favorite part and that’s saying something because I am NOT a frosting fan usually.
The brownies themselves were somewhat cake like, chocolate packed, and moist. Put the brownie and frosting together and it was the BEST dessert!
Fast forward several years, I was browsing through some old family cookbooks. One recipe seemed somewhat similar to the school version I grew up on, so of course I set out to make it!
With a few tweaks, these Lunch Lady Brownies came about and are JUST like the classic recipe I remembered!
My whole family enjoyed them for dessert a few nights ago since then, my kids have already requested them for dessert again!
Although my kids don’t have the same memories I have regarding the brownies, it was fun sharing some lunch room stories with them as I prepared these!
These Lunch Lady Brownies are a blast from the past that you’ll be glad you tried! Enjoy and let me know what you think!
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Lunch Lady Brownies
Ingredients
BROWNIES
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder *unsweetened
- 2 cups flour *all purpose
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 tsp vanilla extract
FROSTING
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder *unsweetened
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9x13 baking pan with cooking spray.
BROWNIES
- In a medium bowl, combine the melted butter and cocoa powder using a hand mixer (or stand).
- Add in the flour and sugar.
- Once combined, add in the eggs and vanilla extract.
- Mix until just combined. *batter is thick
- Place pan in oven and bake for about 25 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean once inserted in center of brownies.
- Once baked, remove from oven and allow to cool about 10 minutes before frosting (you want the brownies warm, not hot).
FROSTING
- Combine all the ingredients into a bowl until smooth.
- Spread frosting evenly on top of somewhat cooled brownies.
- Let brownies fully cool before serving! Enjoy!
Cab
Although they were tasty they were just too dry which surprised me with all the butter.
Kristin
Yes, the brownies are a more “dense” brownie, but shouldn’t have been dry per se. Try to cut down a few minutes of the bake time next time and see if that helps! Sorry to hear!
MZ
I feel there is a fine line when baking brownies if you leave them in to long they will be over backed and dry you must pull them out before you think they are done they look under baked but when they cool they are perfect takes a little practice my family thought these were really good they didn’t hang around to long the frosting on the top set these off thanks for sharing!
Kristin
I agree!! The frosting might just be my favorite part of these brownies, haha! Glad you all enjoyed!