Doom Fudge Brownies

This recipe is a staple of veg club bake sales, recommended by a friend of a current member in 2009.  The recipe giver warned against altering her recipes (taking no responsibility for repercussions) but this recipe has since been tried substituting cocoa powder with carob powder (when one of our members was unable to eat chocolate) and white flour with whole wheat pastry flour.  At the most recent bake sale, the recipe was followed exactly. Without further ado, the original text:

Ingredients:

●      2 cups all-purpose white flour

●      2 cups sugar

●      1 cup cocoa

●      1 teaspoon baking powder

●      1 1/4 teaspoons salt

●      1 cup water

●      1 1/4 cups oil, preferably melted coconut or palm oil, but vegetable oil is fine

●      1 tablespoon vanilla

●      1 egg worth or your favorite egg replacer (I like ground flax seeds and water)

Directions:

●      Preheat oven to 350.  Grease a 9x13 cake pan.

●      Mix all the dry stuff.

●      Add all the wet stuff.  Mix well.

●      Eat a spoonful of raw batter because you can.

●      Pour batter into pan.  Bake for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick in the center comes out a little gooey.  DO NOT OVERBAKE. If the toothpick comes out clean, it's too late.