bit.ly Your family loves your brownies, but they seem a little too simple to take to a party, right? Here are two great decorating ideas from Betty Crocker Kitchens to add some pizzazz by using creative brownie toppings. Baker and author Liv Hansen shows you how to make festive brownies using frosting and sprinkles, AND how to make a brownie “pizza” with summertime fruit toppings. How to make brownie pizza and decorate brownies Decorate Festive Brownies You can decorate brownies with whatever topping you choose. Liv Hansen uses red, white and blue star sprinkles and a frosting drizzle for a Fourth of July party. 1. Bake brownies in a 13 x 9 baking pan. 2. Soften some vanilla frosting for 15 seconds in the microwave. 3. Take a fork and dip it into the softened frosting then drizzle it across the brownies. 4. Decorate the brownies by sprinkling decorative candy stars over the top of the brownies. The stars will stick to the frosting. Brownies and Berries Fruit Pizza When decorating a brownie fruit pizza, you can give this delicious dessert a casual look by randomly sprinkling the fruit on top, or for a more elegant look, arrange the fruit in a pattern. Here, Liv Hansen makes a cream cheese frosting and tops the dessert with strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and finshes it with an apple jelly glaze. 1. Bake brownies in a large pizza pan. 2. To make the frosting add some sugar and vanilla to the softened cream cheese and mix until well combined. 3. Use an offset spatula …
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Ingredients:
6 Heath bars; 6 3/8 oz; broken
1 c Walnuts; chopped
1 1/4 c Sugar
5 oz Unsweetened chocolate; chop
1/2 c Butter; soft
4 Eggs
1 tb Vanilla
1/4 ts Salt
2/3 c Flour
Directions:
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325~F. Grease and flour 9 inch square baking pan. STEEL KNIFE: Combine toffee and walnuts in work bowl and chop coarsely using 6 to 8 on/off turns. Remove from work bowl and set aside. Combine sugar and chocolate in work bowl and mix using 6 on/off turns, then process until chocolate is as fine as sugar, about 1 minute. Add butter and blend 1 minute. Add eggs, vanilla and salt and blend until fluffy, about 40 seconds, stopping as necessary to scrape down sides of work bowl. Add flour and toffee mixture and blend using 4 to 5 on/off turns, just until flour is incorporated; do not overprocess (remove Steel Knife and blend mixture gently with spatula if necessary to mix in flour completely). Turn batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly. Bake until tester inserted in center comes out almost clean, about 50 minutes (for firmer, cakelike brownies, bake about 5 minutes longer). Let cool in pan on rack. Cut into 1 3/4-inch squares. Store in airtight container. These are dark, moist and crunchy with bits of toffee candy
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