Heart Brownies

Description

Cute Conversation Heart brownies. Use a heart shaped cookie cutter and decorate with frosting. Use food markers to write conversation heart messages. These are great to make with kids. They can help make the different colored frosting and older kids can help write out the messages.
Conversation heart brownies.

Ingredients

  • Box of Duncan Hines (or similar) chewy brownie mix
  • -Most require egg, water, and oil
  • White Frosting

Other Materials

  • Pan
  • Heart shaped cookie cutter 3.75" is size used in picture.
  • Food coloring
  • Small containers to mix food coloring and frosting
  • Spatula
  • Betty Crocker Easy Writer Food Decorators
  • Cutting Board of flat surface to press cookie cutters on

Steps for the Heart Brownies

  • Bake Brownies as directed.
  • When cooled, cut into squares a little larger than your cookie cutter. The box I made used a 9 x 9 in pan so I cut the brownies into fourths and lifted each piece out onto a cutting board
  • Press cutters into brownie. Peel excess brownie away from the cutters and then lift the cutter for best results.
  • Decorate with icing using spatula.
  • Write your favorite conversation heart saying on each brownie.

Tips and Suggestions

  • Letting brownies cool before decorating with icing or it will melt and blur.

List of Sayings

Here are some ideas: Traditional
  • Love You
  • Call Me
  • Dream
  • Soul Mate
  • I Do
  • Heart Throb
  • Friends 4Ever
  • Too Cool
  • Flirt
  • Cupid
Modern
  • Melt My Heart
  • In a Fog
  • Chill Out
  • Cloud Nine
  • Heat Wave
  • Sunshine
  • Get My Drift
  • Wildlife
  • Nature Lover
  • Do Good

Mini Heart Brownies

Using a heart cutter about 2" across and colored frosting. Mixing the food coloring to get purple and orange was a great "lesson". A cutter any smaller and you lose the heart shape. You will also want a metal cutter for ease of cutting the brownie and to make sure the sides of the cutter are tall enough to cut all the way down. Many of the plastic ones are shallow and will not cut through an entire brownie.
Small heart brownies with colored frosting.

Brownie Recipe

Description

Rich cocoa brownies made from scratch.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup walnut halves(optional-leave out if for classroom consumption

Other Materials

  • 9 x 13 pan
  • Heart Cookie cutter
  • Icing

Steps

  • Melt the butter or margarine and mix all ingredients in the order given.
  • Bake a 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes in a 9 x 13 inch greased pan.