Brownie mix + a layer of caramel filled chocolate = a cheat to delicious, extra-chewy brownies. Heart-shaped for Valentine’s Day, but delicious every day.
The recipe for the brownie mix I also used for my chocolate cheesecake brownies, I just adjusted the quantities and added a bar of Cadbury’s Caramel. Any caramel filled chocolate would do though.
I just discovered this is my 200th post! How did that happen?!
Ingredients (8 large hearts or 16 rectangular brownies)
- 3 eggs
- 300 g / 10.5 oz caster sugar
- 130 g / 4.5 oz butter
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 130 g / 4.5 oz self-raising flour
- 150- 200 g chocolate with a caramel centre (I used a 200 g bar of Cadbury’s Caramel, but other options are available!)
Method
Grease and line a brownie pan or a deep 20 cm /8 inch square cake tin. Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees C / Gas Mark 4 / 350 degrees F.
Beat the eggs and the caster sugar until light and fluffy. Put the butter and cocoa powder in a small pan and heat gently, stirring until the butter melts and the mixture combines (you can also do this, very gradually, in the microwave using short bursts), then stir in the egg mixture. Fold in the flour.
Pour half of your brownie mixture into the tin. Make sure the bottom of the tin is coated completely. Spread out the squares of chocolate caramel on top of this layer. Cover the chocolate layer with the remaining brownie mixture. These steps are shown in the following photos:
Bake for 40 – 45 minutes. Leave to cool in the tin.
You might like to simply cut up the brownies into rectangles/squares. In honour of Valentine’s Day, I used heart-shaped cookie cutters to shape the brownies. This is what they looked like before decorating:
I then made buttercream using 85 g (3 oz) butter and 170 g (6 oz) icing sugar (I had quite a bit left over to freeze, so you could get away with less). I added half a teaspoon of strawberry flavouring to the buttercream and also some pink food colouring. You can also make pink buttercream with a natural flavour by using strawberry or raspberry purée, as I did in my raspberry ripple sponge cake recipe.
I cut each of the heart shaped brownies in two horizontally to make two layers. I piped a layer of pink buttercream (using a small star tip) between the layers. Finally, I dusted with icing sugar.
As always, brownies are extra delicious when served warm with some vanilla ice cream! 🙂
To get the icing sugar heart on top of the brownies, I drew around a mini heart shaped cutter on some paper, then cut out the heart to create a mask. Lay the mask over the brownie and dust with icing sugar.
Looking for some other brownie recipes? Try these!
Chocolate cheesecake brownies.
After Eight Mint chocolate brownies.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
These look lovely! 🙂
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They were very nice indeed. “Were” because they disappeared in the two days after I made them. No hope of having any left for Valentine’s Day – haha! 🙂
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No mater how many you would have made they still would have run out within two days haha
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It’s true!! 🙂
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Love.
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Thank you! They were rather delicious (especially when warmed up a little) 🙂
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Congrats on 200! Great way to Franken some recipes to suit the holiday!
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Thank you! I had thought about doing biscuits but I really wanted some brownie 🙂
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Nothing beats a warm, chewy brownie!
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These look like heaven! ❤
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They were lovely and the cheat’s way to get caramel in there worked well! 🙂
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Ooh, delicious!
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They were very nice (obviously they’ve all already been devoured! ) 🙂 No waiting for Sunday here!
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ooh they look great and fluffy! my mum made semolina cake last night and by the morning today there was nothing left haha 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 Your house sounds like ours. No cake lasts more than 48 hours! 😉
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haha cakes are just too irresistible 😀
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These look both delicious and adorable!
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Thank you 🙂 There is something very satisfying about eating something which looks and tastes good 🙂
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Very true!
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These look fantastic!
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They look fabulous – as do all your recipes 🙂
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Thank you very much! They were delicious. Just a shame there aren’t more actually for Valentine’s Day – haha! 🙂
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😀
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These are so cute and look lovely 🙂
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Thank you! They were delicious too 🙂
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Holy cow! I didn’t need to see these today…..my ass is going to be huge by the day end, I tell you! Guess hubby is going out to buy the things I need today!
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Haha! They are yummy, particularly if you warm them up a little just before scoffing them! 🙂
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Looks so lovely and yummy
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Thank you! They were delicious and vanished far too quickly 🙂
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I am sure!
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Claire, these are beautiful and they look so delicious! You have a lot of lucky valentines over there, ha ha. 😉
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Well as it was mainly me who ate them all… 🙂 haha!
Thank you! They turned out well (although you can’t really go far wrong with brownies).
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Ha ha, well that’s even better! 😉
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