by Maria
Over the weekend I made a couple delicious treats for my boyfriend- a long with a bunch of other snack food items for the Super Bowl! I like to bake for my man at least once a month. I have always tried to bake right around our monthly anniversary. I do it just because I want to and honestly I don't think Chris or any other lover have ever noticed the trend. I usually like to do easy, pre-made things because of my tight budget and lack of resources in the dinky hole in the wall called a kitchen at this apartment. For our last monthly anniversary I made oatmeal cookies with double chocolate chips. I have also made regular chocolate chip cookies, the peanut butter cookies with kisses, brownies, and brownies with Rolos in them. Saturday morning I decided to try something I had seen on Pinterest. The funny thing is I did not ever read the article, I just made this dessert to resemble the product. The original post can be found here and they are called Chocolate Pudding Cupcakes with Strawberry Centers or Sweetheart Cupcakes.I will call my version Strawberry Brownie Cupcakes.
You will need the following ingredients:
Any family size brownie mix
One tub of frosting (your choice!)
Food coloring
Fresh strawberries
The first thing I did was cut and washed the strawberries. I cut the top of them off and threw them away. Next I added the ingredients of the brownie mix and stirred it all up.
After that I prepared the muffin tins with cupcake paper. You can make it even more festive by getting papers that are colored or have deigns. I then filled each cup about half full with the brownie mix. I stuck a strawberry in the middle of each one and popped them in the oven for the directed time on the brownie mix box. I ended up with about 24 cupcakes. I let them cool for about an hour. Then I added a few drops of red food dye in the tub of icing. You can make it pinker by adding less dye.
I then iced all the strawberry brownies.
The goal was to get an end product where you cut the brownie and the strawberry in the center looks like a heart like the original post I saw. This was about the best one. But Chris and my friends loved them! They ended up being very moist and had a great flavor.
