Heart-Shaped Brownies
Don't break, don't break my heart. And I won't eat your heart shaped brownies. I mean, the soft fudgy brownie contrasted with the hard shell, I could eat these all day.
Servings 2 dozen
Equipment
- Heart shaped silicone mold Check notes below
Ingredients
- 2 cups - Sugar
- 1 cup - Butter melted
- 1/2 cup - Cocoa Powder
- 1 teaspoon - Vanilla Extract
- 4 each - Eggs
- 1 1/2 cups - Flour
- 1/2 teaspoon - Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon - Salt
For Dipping
- 1 each - Bag of Red Candy Melts
- 1 each - Bag of chocolate chips
- Optional Valentine's sprinkles for decoration
Instructions
- Turn oven on to 350F
Brownies
- Put everything into a bowl except the butter.
- Pour in melted butter until incorporated. Don't over mix!
- That's it. You just made brownie batter. Your award is in the mail.
- Give the mold a spritz of oil or (*gag*) non-stick spray, scoop batter about half-way full in each cavity.
- Bake for about 13 minutes.
- Let them cool for about 5 minutes then gently remove from the mold. Allow them to cool down to room temperature.
Chocolate Dipping
- Prepare yourself. Get a tray with parchment and a clean cooling rack with something underneath ready.
- Put the whole bag of red candy melts in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 1 minute at 50% power, then take out and stir, and repeat until they're melted.
- This is where it gets fun! Drop a heart in the melted pool of goodness and get it nice and coated. Get your favorite fork (come on, everyone has a favorite fork) and fish it out. You want to pick it up from the bottom and then tap the fork on the side of the bowl a few times to get the excess off. Transfer it over to the cooling rack using a second fork, picking it up from the bottom.
- Do the same thing with chocolate chips for other brownies. I like to melt my chocolate at 50% power for 30 second intervals. Once it's melted, do the same exact process you did with the red candy melts.
- Use this time before the chocolate sets to decorate with sprinkles or whatever you want.
- Once you have completed dipping every one of the 2,308 brownies you made, now you can drizzle! So take the alternate dip for whatever heart you have, and drizzle it on. Basically if you have the red hearts in front of you, drizzle chocolate, and if you have chocolate, then drizzle the red.
- After taking the time to do every heart, you should be done!.
Notes
- You're going to need a heart shaped silicone mold for this. Here's one I would get if I was in the market right now. (This is an affiliate link. I may be compensated if you purchase from it. Thank you!)
- It's a straight forward recipe. No twists, no turns, no frills. Just brownies.
Which means there will be no cayenne pepper in these babies! Haha, remember that?! I'm sure my wife does! They were her FAVORITE! - I went more cake-like than typical brownie. Usually you look for chewy and moist. Somewhat undercooked. C'mon, you know what I'm talking about. But if you're using a silicone mold, you're asking for trouble by not having something with some structure.
- Candy melts! What, you thought I'd do a Wilton post without candy melts?! For shame! I really, truly didn't want to use them. But I had them, so when in Rome...
- If you don't have candy melts, just sub chocolate chips for them. You could even throw some red food coloring into white chocolate if you really want the red hearts. Me? I would go with black to match mine, but whatever.
- As with most brownies, this is not directions on how to build a carbonic fusion warp drive. These are brownies. It doesn't get much simpler than this.
- If you really wanted to, go ahead and make your own favorite brownie recipe!
