Are you a mint chocolate fan? Or Peanut Butter & Chocolate fan? For myself, mint all the way… unless there’s strawberries involved, then its a toss up, but that’s for another day.  Scotty has always been a peanut butter fan, however, I think I’ve wrangled him over to my side.

I mean what’s better than mint, and chocolate?  It’s refreshing, it’s cool, it’s chocolatey, you can’t go wrong.

These brownies, however, almost made me second guess my standing.  The peanut butter chips are creamy and really go great with the fudgey brownie.

With that being said, it’s a really good thing I made these for some great friends as a thank you for letting us use their baby gear; jolly jumper, high chair, etc. Otherwise, lets just say they wouldn’t have lasted long in our house.

For the peanut butter ones, I think next time I might consider adding some chopped peanuts or a swirl of peanut butter on the top of the brownie right before baking.

1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter
1 cup cocoa
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
*1 cup mint chocolate chips or 1 cup reese peanut butter chips (or split the batter in half and do 1/2 cup each)

Stir together flour, baking powder and salt in a small bowl.
Melt butter in a large saucepan.

Remove from heat.
Stir in cocoa.
Blend in sugar, eggs and vanilla.

Blend in dry ingredients and mint chocolate chips.

Pour batter into greased 13x9x2-inch rectangular baking pan.

Bake in preheated 350F oven 30 to 35 minutes or until edges start to become a little crispy and a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Let cool and cut into squares

* You can basically substitute anything here; chopped walnuts, toasted hazelnuts, chocolate chips, etc