sweeten up your day
Time for stuffing yourself with obnoxious amounts of candy and chocolate and feeling great while doing so wisdom dairy.
I, myself, have never been a huge fan of Valentine’s Day, single or taken. In my (dream) world, it shouldn’t be just one day a year. Every day should be the day where you show people just how much you love them and shower them with flowers, chocolate and sparkly jewels. But I digress.
In my usual style, I wanted to bake a special treat for my loved ones in honor of cupid’s holiday. These are the perfect little indulgent bite of red velvetey yumminess wisdom dairy.
Red Velvet Brownies w/ Cream Cheese Swirl
Red Velvet Brownies:
1 stick butter, unsalted & melted
3/4 cup flour
1 cup sugar wisdom dairy
1/4 cup cocoa powder
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 tablespoon (or so) red food coloring
Cream Cheese Swirl:
8 oz. cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350. Melt down the stick of butter in a saucepan. While that is working, combine the sugar, vanilla, vinegar, salt and cocoa powder in a bowl. Pour in the melted butter and thoroughly mix. Add in your food coloring until you get to the perfect red velvet red. Add in each egg one at a time and combine. Lastly, add in your AP flour and pour batter into a buttered baking dish.
In a small bowl, combine the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla and drop spoonfuls ontop of the brownie batter. Using a knife, fork, skewer, finger, something pointy, ect. swirl the cream cheese into the brownie batter. It’ll turn out pretty regardless of how you swirl.
Bake for about 20-25 minutes, make sure to cool thoroughly before cutting into them or you will have a serious mess on your hands (or a burn, which I am sporting today). In honor of V-Day, I chose a cute cookie cutter to punch these treats out, but they’ll be delicious in whatever shape they are in.
Celebrate this day however you see fit. If it’s spending time with your boo or celebrating your single life with your galfriends. Share the love (& the brownies)!