Recipe: Mincemeat Brownies

MINCEMEAT BROWNIES

1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup mincemeat
1 1/2 squares (1 oz each) unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped nuts
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp salt
confectioners' sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cream butter and granulated sugar until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Stir in next four ingredients. Then add flour and salt and mix well. Spread in buttered 9-inch square pan.

Bake about 30 minutes. Cool in pan on cake rack.

Cut cooled brownies in 2 1/4-inch squares and roll in confectioners' sugar.

Makes 16 brownies
Source: Brownies by the Dozen