Chocolate Cherry Brownies

Borrowed a standard brownie recipe from this blog:

http://theshoeboxkitchen.wordpress.com/2011/05/09/what-weve-been-up-to-and-finally-brownies/

changed just a a few things and then added Cherries!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup all-purpose flour, measured by spooned and leveled method
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
•  1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/3 cup butter
• 3/4 cup turbinado sugar
• 2 Tbsp Water
• 10 oz bittersweet chocolate chips
• 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 eggs

First I pitted my cherries by hand.

Mix vanilla and the chocolate chips in a large bowl.

Melt butter and add sugar.  Stir until sugar is dissolved and mixture starts to boil.  Pour over the chocolate chips.  Wait 30 seconds and then stir.  Add eggs one at a time beating them into the chocolate mixture well.  In a separate bowl sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.  Then gradually add the dry ingredients into the chocolate stirring just to combine.  Then fold in the cherries.

Pour into pan lined with parchment paper and bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes. 

I didn't have a small square pan so I used a 9" cake pan.  It was awkward fitting the parchment paper into the round pan, but it came out fine.