hershey's irresistible peanut butter chip brownies

These brownies are soft and creamy and just about melt in your mouth as you eat them. Laura didn't have time to frost them but you you really don't need to!! 

hershey's irresistible peanut butter chip brownies (Laura found them at HERSHEY'S)
1 cup (2 sticks butter), softened
1 package (3 ounces) cream cheese, softened
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 2/3 cups (10 ounce package) Reese's Peanut Butter Chips
brownie frosting, optional

Heat oven to 325 F. Grease bottom of a 13x9x2-inch baking pan.
Beat butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder, gradually add to butter mixture, beating well. Stir in chips. Spread batter in pan.
Bake 35-4o minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from sides of pan. Cool completely. Frost with brownie frosting, if desired. Cut into bars. About 36 brownies.

brownie frostingBeat 3 tablespoons softened butter and 3 tablespoons Hershey's cocoa until blended. Gradually and 1 1/3 cups powdered sugar and 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract alternately with 1 to 2 tablespoons milk, beating to spreading consistency. About 1 cup.