Peanut Butter Nutella Brownies

I just made the best brownies ever. EVER. I organized my recipe bookmarks this weekend (exciting, I know) and I found this recipe on Noble Pig. I would have made it immediately, but I didn't have enough cocoa.

I don't even WANT to know how many calories are in each one of these things, as they're just... wow. I bit into one of these and it was like seeing God. I suggest you eat at least one. They are thick and moist and fudgy-chewy, and everything a brownie should be. Mike ate three the minute they were cool enough to be sliced.

(I need work on my food photography!)

Peanut Butter Nutella Brownies
(adapted from Noble Pig)

1 cup butter, melted
2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 large eggs, room temperature
1 cup flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup Nutella
1/2 cup peanut butter

In a medium bowl combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Over low heat, melt butter and stir in sugar and vanilla extract until well-combined. Add eggs, one at a time, and stir them in with a wooden spoon. Add the butter-sugar mixture and cocoa mixture together. Put Nutella and peanut butter in a microwave-safe bowl and heat in the microwave at 20-second intervals until it becomes runny. Stir this into the batter. Pour the batter into a glass 9 x 13 pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake for 30 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Let the brownies cool completely before cutting. (For the icing stuff, I melted white chocolate chips and just sort of flung it about, and sprinkled it with semisweet chocolate chips. OM NOM.)

I might have to have a kid just so I can make stuff for its bake sales.