Bake up some love and make our Heart Shaped Brownies! An easy homemade Valentine brownie recipe that you can stir up in a bowl becomes a message of love just with a cookie cutter.
Heart Shaped Brownies
Nothing says "I love you" quite like fudgy chocolate Heart Shaped Brownies! Bake up some love this Valentine's Day for those special people in your life.
Everyone will feel loved when you make brownies for Valentine’s Day, especially when they taste so fudgy and chocolatey.
Our one bowl brownies are so easy to make with basic ingredients you can keep on hand in your kitchen.
Simply mix the ingredients in one bowl, bake, cool and cut into delectable little hearts!
So pretty to serve just as is or you can dress them up and add a hot fudge drizzle and Valentine sprinkles.
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You can even change it up a bit more and cut out big hearts, little hearts and mini hearts with different size heart cutters! I love this nested heart cutter set too.
It doesn't get much easier than one bowl of brownie batter to show how very much you care. But don’t just bake brownies, bake heart brownies and you’ll be baking up a bowl of brownie love today!
Our heart Valentine brownies are a sweet way to show your love this Valentine’s Day!
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How to make homemade brownies for Valentine’s Day
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below
- Preheat your oven to 350F.
- Leaving a 2-inch foil overhang, line a 7-inch by 11-inch baking pan with foil and spray with cooking spray
- Melt butter in the microwave
- Add sugar and cocoa powder and stir until blended
- Stir in eggs and vanilla
- Add flour and salt and stir until a brownie batter forms
- Spread batter in prepared pan and then bake for 25 minutes
- Cool brownies for 10 minutes in the pan.
- Lift brownies out of pan using the foil overhang and cool completely on wire rack.
- Cut cooled brownies into hearts
How to make heart shaped brownies
- Using a heart shaped cookie cutter, press the cookie cutter into you cooled brownie.
- Turn heart cutter upside down every other heart to get the most brownie heart cut-outs
- To prevent sticking, coat the inside of your cookie cutter with no-stick cooking spray
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Be sure to measure your flour correctly. Spoon flour into your measuring cup and level with the flat side of a knife
- Stir valentine sprinkles into the brownie batter
- Stir mini chocolate chips into the brownie batter
- Drizzle cooled brownies with melted chocolate
- Cut into different size heart shaped brownies with heart cookie cutters
- Save brownie scraps and serve with ice cream
- Turn heart cutter upside down every other heart to get the most brownie heart cut-outs
- Top your brownie batter with Valentine sprinkles before baking
Storage
- Store your homemade brownies recipe at room temperature in an airtight container.
- Brownies will stay fresh for 2-3 days.
Ingredients for brownie recipe with cocoa powder
- butter
- sugar
- cocoa powder
- large eggs
- vanilla extract
- flour
- salt
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Heart Shaped Brownies
Ingredients
- 12 Tbs. butter
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 large eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2/3 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp. salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line a 11-inch by 7-inch baking pan with foil leaving a 2-inch foil overhang and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
- In microwave-safe bowl melt butter.
- Stir in sugar and cocoa powder until blended.
- Add eggs and vanilla and stir until combined.
- Stir in flour and salt until a brownie batter forms.
- Spread batter in prepared pan and bake 25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs.
- Cool 10 minutes in pan. Using foil overhang, lift brownies out of pan and cool completely on wire rack.
- Using a 2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out brownie hearts*. Turn heart cutter upside down every other heart to get the most brownie heart cut-outs.
Notes
- Be sure to measure your flour correctly. Spoon flour into your measuring cup and level with the flat side of a knife.
- Drizzle cooled brownies with melted chocolate or hot fudge sauce
- Cut into different size heart shaped brownies
- Save brownie scraps and serve with ice cream
- Stir mini chocolate chips into the brownie batter
- Turn heart cutter upside down every other heart to get the most brownie heart cut-outs
- Top your brownie batter with Valentine sprinkles before baking
- Store your homemade brownies recipe at room temperature in an airtight container.
- Brownies will stay fresh for 2-3 days.
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