Hershey's Ultimate Chocolate Brownies

My husband, Raven, is a brownie fanatic, and I have never made from-scratch brownies before, I'd always just bought a boxed mix. I decided to perform an experiment to see if I could make decent brownies, just for him.

To this end, I thought the best resource to utilize was Hershey Kitchens. My husband squeed with delight when he tasted the raw batter.

What will the chocolate lover in your family say?

 Ingredients
3/4 cup cocoa
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup butter or margarine, melted and divided
1/2 cup boiling water
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1-1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup dark Chocolate Chips or Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
 ONE-BOWL BUTTERCREAM FROSTING (recipe follows) 
Additional Dark Chocolate Chips or Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (optional)

Directions:

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease 13x9x2-inch baking pan or two 8-inch square baking pans.

Stir together cocoa and baking soda in large bowl; stir in 1/3 cup butter. This will look like melted chocolate when it's stirred up well. Add boiling water; stir until mixture thickens into a pudding consistency.

Stir in sugar, eggs and remaining 1/3 cup butter; stir until smooth. Add flour, vanilla and salt; blend completely. This will take a few minutes and your arm will get tired, don't give up!

Stir in chocolate chips. Pour into prepared pan.

 Bake 35 to 40 minutes for rectangular pan, 30 to 35 minutes for square pans or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan.

Cool completely in pan on wire rack.

Frost with ONE-BOWL BUTTERCREAM FROSTING. Garnish with chocolate chips, if desired. Cut into squares. Makes 24 to 36 brownies.

ONE-BOWL BUTTERCREAM FROSTING
6 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened
2-2/3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
1/3 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Beat butter in medium bowl. Add powdered sugar and cocoa alternately with milk, beating to spreading consistency (additional milk may be needed). Stir in vanilla.
About 2 cups frosting.

 The original recipe can be viewed here: https://www.hersheys.com/recipes/recipe-details.aspx?id=4315