While a good fudgy brownie is hard to beat, sometimes its fun to take them up a level and add some other flavors. Try adding strawberry cream cheese frosting to your brownies for a fun Valentine’s treat.
Day 4 of brownie week! Now that you know all the ins and outs of making a great batch of homemade brownies, I’l teach you how to you can upgrade a simple pan of brownies into a fun dessert for any occasion. Today we’re jazzing up our regular pan of brownies with some cream cheese frosting.
If you haven’t yet, check out my first three posts in the brownie week series about how to make the best brownies in the world from scratch, how to make homemade brownie mix, or how to make a quick and easy pan of brownies with just cocoa.
How to give your boring brownies a unique twist:
Some days a rich fudgy pan of good ‘ole brownies hits the spot. Other days or occasions call for an upgrade to regular brownies. Here are some quick and easy ideas to make the ordinary pan of brownies special.
- Add frosting in any flavor you love. For the recipe, I chose to use strawberry cream cheese frosting. However peanut butter frosting or coffee buttercream sound delicious too!
- Add any of your favorite mix ins. Stir chopped nuts, chocolate chunks, peanut butter cups or Oreos into the batter before baking.
- Make a brownie skillet cookie. Bake the brownie batter in a skillet, and top with ice cream, peanut butter and hot fudge while its still warm and dig in with a spoon.
- Swirl in some caramel or raspberry jam into the batter before your bake them. And then add some more on top when they come out.
- Add chocolate frosting and a generous amount of sprinkles. The visual appeal on this one will please any child or kid at heart.
I had a pan of brownies sitting around and some extra strawberry cream cheese frosting to use and that’s how these strawberry frosted brownies were born. I added the fudge drizzle to make them extra fancy, but it is completely optional and doesn’t add a lot to the flavor.
Let me know if you make these brownies and what you think. Tag me #chocolatewithgrace on Instagram and be sure to follow me there. Also, if you have any ways you love to make your brownies special, let me know in the comments. Be sure to check out some additional brownie recipe ideas at the bottom of the post.
If you like fruit and chocolate, perhaps you will like some of these other fruity brownies. I really only like the chocolate strawberry combination, but I know there are a lot of you who like chocolate covered cherries or raspberries.
Check out Blackberry Cheesecake Brownies from Broma Bakery. Raspberry Oreo Brownies from Taming Twins. Or Chocolate Covered Cherry Brownies from Plain Chicken.
Julie Blanner says
These look delicious! Perfect for Valentine’s day.
Courtney says
Yum! These brownies are so easy and delicious!
Natasha says
Well don’t these look DIVINE!! This would be so fun to make with the kids as a special surprise for dad!
Steph says
These were amazing and so easy to make!!
Taylor says
These look DIVINE! Love the added strawberry flavor. Perfect for Valentine’s Day!