Hearts and Chocolate......

Every southern bakery and baked goods brand in my opinion must include brownies. I was never a fan of those brownies dipped in caramel with marshmallows  and drowning in nuts and chocolate sauce. Plain brownies on there own contain enough butter and sugar to send anyone's Weight Watchers points into the stratosphere. But in moderation everyone deserves a treat, a little something in your day to say " you deserve something completely and totally unnecessary" why? because...your awesome.

In planning my menu for my store, brownies are a must.  Tonight, I decided to try the brownie recipe on the back of the Hershey Chocolate baking chips bag.  Following the recipe to the letter i must say they came out really well. I do believe though it called for a lot more butter and sugar i have used in other recipes but that is probably why they did taste so good. I think in future recipes i can probably find some substitutes to make it not such a recipe for a diabetic coma, but that is what this is about right? Making these recipes my own. Creating my own recipes for success......


With it being February of course I had to incorporate my heart shaped baked ware into my evening of baking. I always have had a problem with waiting until things are cool enough before taking them out of the bake ware i use to cook it in.  I can not even tell you the amount of broken cookies, cakes and brownies I have trashed or consumed in the past due to my impatience. Tonight was almost the same but after the second heart shaped brownie that came out was broken, I decided to stop and put my little chocolate hearts back in the freezer until it was the right time for them to come out and be decorated in all the icing and sugar it could stand.

Funny, how in baking and in life we have all had those moments where we don't care if our "hearts" are ready are not to face the world, and we know if we take that risk of coming out of what holds us together, we could break. But, we do it anyway because of that undeniable appetite that we all have for life and chocolate....