Peppermint Brownies!!!

These brownies are a perfect cute winter treat! :-)  I'm still fiddling with the recipe but this one is really quite delicious so far!

Time
Prep time: 10 min
Cook Time: 30-35 min
Ready In: 40 min

Servings
Whatever you count as fitting in a 13 x 9'' pan.  Personally I say the serving size is one ;-)

Ingredients

1 stick of unsalted butter

8 oz of Baker's semisweet chocolate

2 cups sugar

1 tsp salt

3 eggs (pre-whisk)

1 tsp baking powder
1 cup cocoa powder, I a mix between sweetened and non sweetened is pretty good
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
A bunch of crushed candy canes, roughly 1/2 a cup

Procedures 
1. Heat oven to 375.
2. Crush up peppermints.  What I did for this was unwrap all candies, put them in a plastic bag and went to town with a hammer.
3. Heat up chocolate and butter together in a pan resting over another pan filled with boiling water.  This allows the butter and chocolate to melt together without burning the chocolate.  Make sure is entirely melted and mixed before removing from heat.
4. Remove from heat and whisk in sugar and salt.
5. Whisk in eggs
6. Whisk in baking powder, flour, cocoa powder, vanilla and peppermint extract.
7. Pour is greased 13 x 9'' baking pan.
8. Sprinkle on crushed peppermint
9. Bake for 30-35 minutes at 375, check after 30 min.
10.  Let cool for 5 min and enjoy!

Goes well with something warm and happy!