Lunch Lady Brownies
Lunch Lady Brownies are moist, full of chocolate flavor, and absolutely delicious. The best dessert for potlucks and parties!
Lunch Lady Brownies are the best brownies ever. They’re like the ones the lunch ladies served for school lunch dessert, but this homemade version is better!
I’ve been on a brownie kick lately. I don’t know what’s come over me. Maybe it’s the stress of selling our house (which we finally sold. Yay!) and it could also be the pre-stress of building the new one soon. I’m not quite sure. All I know is that these brownies were sent from heaven above. And that I ate four. For real. 😉
These Lunch Lady Brownies are simply incredible. Cake-like, filled with chocolate flavor, and totally amazing. Apparently, it’s an old recipe from the sweet ladies who served our lunches in Elementary school.
I honestly don’t remember the brownies in Elementary school, but I do remember the dinner rolls and pizza. Do you remember how good those rolls were? After I would eat mine I would go around the lunch table asking everyone else if I could have theirs. Haha.
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter, melted
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs, beaten
- 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
Frosting
- 1/4 cup salted butter, softened
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup milk (I use 2%)
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350° F. Line a 9×13-inch baking dish with parchment paper. Set aside.
Pour the melted butter and cocoa powder in a large bowl. Using an electric hand-mixer, mix until smooth.
Add the flour and sugar. Beat together, then add eggs and vanilla. Mix until just combined. Don’t over mix. (Batter will be thick.)
Pour batter into the prepared baking dish and spread out evenly. Bake 25 to 28 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out mostly clean. Remove from oven and allow to stand for 15 minutes before frosting. You want the brownies slightly warm when you frost them!
Chocolate Frosting
Beat together all of the frosting ingredients until smooth. Spread over the warm brownies. Let brownies cool completely before cutting and serving. Enjoy!
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Lunch Lady Brownies
Ingredients
Brownies
- 1 cup salted butter melted
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 4 teaspoons vanilla extract
Chocolate Frosting
- 1/4 cup salted butter softened
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup milk (I use 2%)
- 3 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Brownies
- Preheat oven to 350° F. Line a 9×13-inch baking dish with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Pour the melted butter and cocoa powder in a large bowl. Using an electric hand-mixer, mix until smooth.
- Add the flour and sugar. Beat together, then add eggs and vanilla. Mix until just combined. Don't over mix. (Batter will be thick.)
- Pour batter into the prepared baking dish and spread out evenly. Bake 25 to 28 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out mostly clean. Remove from oven and allow to stand for 15 minutes before frosting. You want the brownies slightly warm when you frost them!
Chocolate Frosting
- Beat together all the frosting ingredients until smooth. Spread over the warm brownies. Let brownies cool completely before cutting and serving. Enjoy!
Notes
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Do you cook the frosting mix ?
Nope!
Holly, So funny when you said i dont know what came over me!
Haha! 🙂
I came across your recipe on Pinterest and can’t wait to try them! Question: are they just as good if I freeze them and thaw before an event? Or do I need to make them day of? Thanks!
Hi Casandra! I have not yet tried freezing these, so I would just say from experience make them the same day. 🙂 Hope you enjoy them!
Hreat recipe. I added chocolate chips and pecans to the batter. My husband ate 3 in 5 minutes. I guess they came out good!
I added in a lil bit of my homemade chocolate ganache (semi sweet chocolate,heavy cream, and a dash of chili powder) into both the brownie batter and frosting and it gave it a lil extra sizzle. Img they were so good!!! Also I loaded it with choc. Chips. LOVE the recipe. It will be a hit at my parties! So moist and Delish!
Just made these, they are awesome! Texted my foodie friend and told her to look them up!
I made this and my mother in law said they were the best brownies she ever ate. My husband ate 4 in the first half hour. They are both choc-o-holics and loved this recipe. I added pecans and chocolate chips to the brownie batter. Same amount of cooking time at 350 degrees.
Delicious but for some reason mine turned out cakey and not fudgy . Delicious none the less! Thank you!
I had to make these. It’s 945pm and I have been laid up from surgery for 4 weeks. I asked hubby and he’s like ugh no. SO I hobbled into the kitchen and made them. I found the recipe for the Peanut Butter Cake they made in school and now with this I only need the rolls.
Ive actually added Amarula to both the frosting and the mix. I call it Drunken Lunch Lady!
My family devours it everytime. I just finished making two batches of them for our staff meeting ( one without and one with Amarula)
*5-6 Cap fulls for the mix and 4 cap fulls for the icing.
I suggest tweaking it to preference >> excuse to eat the batter 😉
Why do you need to line the 9×13 pan with foil? I’m confused. I couldn’t find an answer in the recipe.
Just for easy removal. You don’t have to but I like to for easy clean-up 🙂
These look great and I bet they would be even better with some melted peanut butter added to the frosting! yum
I love this recipe is so easy to make and is soooo good, I have to be honest I dont make the frosting I sprinkle powered sugar lightly on top to save a few calories. The brownies are so sweet and chocolaty they are great with no frosting too
These are delish. I bake them in an 8×8 because I like a thick brownie. I add milk though because the batter was way too thick for me. Definitely making again 🙂
I made these today..they are very good..mine also came out more “cake like”..my thought for people who have been asking is try cutting back by 1 egg..if you read the back of a brownie box..it will say..for more cake like brownies add an additional egg..4 eggs did seem like a lot ..just a thought..they were still yummy
O.M.G.!!!! I just baked these brownies & I can’t tell you how the actual brownies taste but for the love of CHOCOLATE, this frosting is TO DIE FOR!!!! I couldn’t stop eating it…; omg! Yes- for those of you that say it comes out like “paste”, it is in fact SUPER THICK. But I just kept working it with the back of a stainless steel spoon & it came out amazing. I’m surprised I had any frosting left because of how much I ate once I whipped it all together! Puts B.C. Chocolate Frosting to shame!
I just made these, let them cool for a few minutes and frosted them. My entire house smells like a brownie…if they taste as good as they smell (which I have no doubt), they won’t be around long! As a matter of fact, my 13 year old grandson keeps going in there and trying to steal the entire pan. I let him lick the beaters, I told him he doesn’t get any of the brownies, LOL.
While working on my pinning today, I ran across this brownie recipe. I had to start making them right away! Unfortunately, I was out of cocoa powder so I had to run to the grocery store. But it was well worth it. They are really delicious! What I like most is that although they contain a lot of sugar, they are not too sweet or heavy. I’m sending some over to the neighbors so I don’t eat them all! Great recipe! Thanks
These are my kids FAVORITE! My daughter is making a batch right now.Thank you!!
These brownies look so, so soft and good! Pinning!
They are amazing
I followed the recipe to the thrift. Thru were not chewy. They were completely cooked and fluffy.. did I do something wrong? I cooked them for 25 minutes.
The recipe shows it needs two (3.9 ounce) boxes.
Hello do u have to use Aluminum foil just ran out haha
Made these for our Sunday family dinner and boy, were they a BIG hit! Brought back memories for my husband getting them at a bakery in town back in the day. Won’t make them very often becaùse of what’s in them but a great special occasion dessert. Thank you for sharing the recipe!
Is the dough supposed to be thick? I have made brownies before and it’s pretty runny like this was very thick
I just frosted these and followed your directions exactly. They look AWESOME. Can’t wait for them to cool, and it was so easy. Thanks for sharing!