Double-decker Confetti Brownies

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 1/2 cups flour, divided
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine, melted
• 1 cup m&m's semi-sweet chocolate baking bits, divided

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees (176 celsius).
• 2 lightly grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside.
• 3 cream together 3/4 cup butter and both sugars in a large bowl until light and fluffy.
• 4 beat in eggs and vanilla.
• 5 in a seperate medium size bowl, combine 2 1/4 cups flour, baking powder and salt; blend into creamed mixture.
• 6 divide batter in half.
• 7 blend together cocoa powder and melted butter; stir into one half of the dough.
• 8 spread cocoa dough evenly into the prepared pan.
• 9 stir remaining 1/4 flour and 1/2 cup m&m's baking bits into remaining dough; spread evenly over the cocoa dough in the pan.
• 10 sprinkle with remaining m&m's baking bits.
• 11 bake 25 to 30 minutes or until edges start to pull away from sides of the pan.
• 12 cool completely.
• 13 cut into bars.
• 14 store in tightly covered container.