Chocolate Stuff

- 2 eggs
- 1 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. flour
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 stick real butter (salted)
- 2 heaping TBS Hershey's cocoa (brown box)
- 1 running over tsp. vanilla
- 1 c. chopped pecans (optional)

Preheat the oven to 300. 

In large bowl, beat eggs, sugar, and flour.  Add salt.  In a second bowl, melt together butter and cocoa.  Dump this mixture in with the egg/sugar/flour mixture and stir it well.  Add vanilla and stir.  If you want nuts, stir them in. 

Pour mixture into a greased loaf pan and set the loaf pan in a pan of water.  Put the pan-inside-the-pan in the oven.  Bake for 40-50 minutes.  It will be done when the top is crunchy.  The bottom should be gooey, so don't overbake it.

Good warm or cooled.  I like to add powdered sugar on top.

Recipe taken from Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook by Jill Conner Browne.