Recipe for the day ~ Baker's® Bunny Brownies

Baker's® Bunny Brownies

(Courtesy of Kraft Foods)

Ingredients:

4 squares Baker's® Unsweetened Baking Chocolate

3/4 cups (1 1/2 sticks) butter or margarine

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 tspn vanilla

1 cup flour

1 cup coarsely chopped Planter's nuts (optional)

White Chocolate Coconut Frosting (recipe below)

Directions:

Line 13x9 baking pan with foil, extending over edges to use as handles

Grease foil

Microwave chocolate and butter in a large microwavable bowl on HIGH for 2 minutes or until butter is melted

Stir until chocolate is completely melted

Stir sugar into chocolate until well blended

Mix in eggs and vanilla

Stir in flour and nuts until well blended

Spread on prepared baking pan

Bake at 350 for 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out with fudgy crumbs

Do NOT overbake

Cool in pan

Run knife around edge of pan to loosen brownies from sides

Lift from pan using foil as handles onto a cutting board

Frost with with white chocolate coconut frosting

Refrigerate brownies for about 10 minutes to the frosting sets

Cut into squares or cut with cookie cutters into Easter shapes, such as bunnies

Press cutter down into brownies to cut

Lift up and push brownie through cutter to remove

Decorate with assorted decorating icings, glossy decorating gels and decors

**White Chocolate Coconut Frosting**

Beat 1/2 cup (1 stick) softened butter

1 cup powdered sugar

2 Tbspn milk

In a medium bowl on low speed until well blended

Beat on medium speed until smooth

Beat in 3 squares of melted Baker's® Premium White Chocolate

Stir 1/2 f a 7oz pkg (1 1/3 cups) Baker's® Sweetened Flake Coconut

Sprinkle remaining coconut over brownies after they are frosted and cut, if desired