Basic Amazing Brownies

So I came across this recipe a way long time ago, and it is the only recipe I use for brownies from scratch. I think its still very weird that you make it in a sauce pan but they are the best so I don't really care how you have to make them :) So here is the simple recipe that I will revert to whenever I make something with brownies, like later tonight when I post my S'mores Brownies

 

What you need:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup all-pourpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking powder 


What you do:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 8 inch square pan.
2. Melt butter on stove-top in sauce pan. Remove from heat, and stir in sugar. Add eggs, but make sure the butter and sugar mixture is slightly cooled so you don't start to cook your eggs. Next add vanilla. Beat in unsweetened cocoa, flour, salt, and baking powder.
3. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Check with a toothpick. Do not overcook.


Tips:
Cut your brownies with a plastic knife, it will leave clean lines and not break brownies apart....I read this somewhere and have been doing it that way ever since. I actually have one plastic knife (just from the box of knifes, forks, and spoons) that I always wash and re-use because I'm afraid I will make brownies and then not have my plastic knife to cut them LOL