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yummy… brownies…no frosting.
Is there any event where it is traditional to have brownies?
Birthdays have cakes, Thanksgiving have pies. X-mas has cookies and candy. But AFAIK, there is no event where brownies are KING.
Possibly certain holidays in Colorado and the Netherlands.
One does not frost brownies,of course. Nor include nuts. If your brownies require nuts for deliciousness they were not made properly.
Cake browneis are an abomination to Anansi.
The only frosted brownies I ever have are the crappy supermarket varieties, so I firmly believe frosting is an abomination. Besides, it’s overkill on a properly fudgy brownie. A light dusting of powdered sugar at most.
Nigella Lawson’s Triple Chocolate Brownies FTW.
I just made peppermint brownies for my students: fudge brownies with alternating stripes of white and pink butter frosting flavored with peppermint extract and dusted with crumbled starlite mints. (Why yes, I am a man, why do you ask?) They were pink and delicious.
I have reported you to the Brownie Gods. Not for baking while male (which I also do) but for adulterating fudge brownies with frositing. In a civilized world you would be keelhauled.
No controlled substance brownies? 
Generally I hate brownies. I have had those light brown ones that aren’t too bad. I would probably prefer the controlled substance ones though.
Brownies must be fudge. Nuts and/or frosting are a bonus. Such is the will of Karana.
And Humboldt County, California!
And no to controlled substance brownies. It wastes the controlled substance, and fucks up the brownie. Both are blasphemy. If so inclined, consume the controlled substance first, listen to some tunes, then go for the brownie. And ice cold milk. This guy I used to know in college said that totally rocks.
I didn’t even think of mary jane brownies; I’ve never had them.
Ah well. I’m old now, so it’s too late.
made with shredded baking coconut
That’s because every day is brownie day!
made with chopped jalapenos.
I will grudgingly allow my mothers cheesecake brownies, and once she made them with crunched up candy canes in the cheesecake part. Only because my mom made them, mind you …
Frosted brownies? WTF? I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that. ETA: Yes, I certainly have. And it’s wrong. ETA 2: And I voted wrong. I voted the first option, not noticing the third.
My preference is fudgy, no nuts. although with nuts is acceptable, as I love nuts. But it’s not what I think of when I think of the ur-Brownie.
Cake-like fudge with nuts. Yum!
People commonly make single-layer cakes, frost them, and call them “brownies.” That is of course a sick and depraved lie akin to calling Britney Spears a songstress of unparalled vocal power, but it’s infected the language to such an extent that only wholescale massacres and public floggings of the offenders could correct it, and I can’t get behind that.