Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s day!

Happy Valentine’s day! This is a heart shaped fudgy brownie topped with milk chocolate ganache. I know, my decorating skills are not good, but I tried. 😁

This recipe is super simple. You can add cut up candy in the batter or in top,of the ganache or frostinf if you want as well. If ganache (which honestly, is just a fancy word for melted chocolate with heavy cream), is not your thing, you can leave the brownies plain, sprinkle with powdered sugar or use whatever frosting you want. I used one my two heart shaped cake pans, but you can them in an 8 or 9 inch Square cake pan. Remember to spoon your flour from your flour container into your measuring cup to get the correct amount. Also preheat your oven for 20 minutes before baking, to get your oven to the right temperature.

  • Ingredients
  • 3/4 cup butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 2/3 cup baking cocoa
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp chocolate or vanilla extract
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Line a baking pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. Combine butter and sugar. Add cocoa. Blend in eggs, beating one at a time. Mix in extract. Fold in flour and salt. Blend in chips. Spread into pan. Mixture will be thick. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted,in center comes out with a few crumbs. Cool completley.

  • Ganache ingedients
  • 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (I used milk chocolate)

Directions – heat cream in a microwave safe bowl for 45 seconds. Pour over chips. Let sit 5 minutes. Stir smooth. Pour over brownies. let ganache set. Store in covered container.

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The Baked Brownie – topped with milk chocolate ganache

#GoBills

This is treat #2 for Bills victory Monday. A stressful game, but I had to behave for a half hour and not use bad words because we were have our internet changed and the tech was in our house during the first half. I made up for that lack of swearing on the second half. A lot of stress and frustration. But they won, and that is all that counts. This treat is the Baked Brownie.. I think I found it reading something online regarding Oprah a long time ago. I used dark chocolate chips, but you can use semisweet if you want. I added some chocolate chips to the batter and topped them with milk chocolate ganache!

  • Ingredients
  • 1 cup butter
  • Just under 2 cups dark chocolate chips
  • 1 1 /2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 5 eggs
  • 1 tsp chocolate extract
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 2 tbs baking cocoa
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Directions – preheat oven to 350 for 20 minutes. Line an 8-8 pan with tin foil and spray with baking spray. In a microwave safe bowl, melt butter with just under 2 cups dark chocolate chips in 30 second intervals until you can stir smooth. Add sugar. Mix in eggs, one at a time, and extract. Fold in flour, baking cocoa ans salt. Add 1 cups chips. Spread into prepared pan. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with a few crumbs. Sprinkle hot brownies with powdered sugar. Cool completely. In a microwave safe bowl, microwave 1/3 cup heavy cream for one minute. Add 1 cup milk chocolate chips. Stir until completely blended. Let sit at least 20 minutes and then frost brownies. Store in covered container.

Do brownies need frosting? Why yes!