This blew my mind.

These happened!!!!!
Wohooooo.


Okay recipe - The cupcakes are White Cupcakes, the same ones I used for the peanut butter cupcakes.

The frosting is butter cream.

1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp yellow food coloring
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp milk

and the Batman cutouts are from ready made fondant that I bought. But if you don't have readymade fondant, you can make it or you can make gumpaste. Recipe of gumpaste is given in the post about the Batman cookies.

Black food coloring is not available in the market. So mix equal parts of yellow, blue and red food coloring and voila. Black. :)

Some pointers -
1. Fondant sticks easy. So when working with Fondant, ALWAYS use parchment paper or if you don't have that then sprinkle your working counter with icing sugar. This should help the fondant to not stick.
2. The thinner your fondant, the easier it will be to work with. So make sure you roll it thin, but not so thin that it tears.
3. Fondant tears easy. So when working with fondant, it is important to refrigerate every step along the way. Refrigerate for 15 mins after carving, then refrigerate after painting it black.
4. I made the silliest mistake. I didn't let the paint dry and I put the fondant batman piece on the icing. DO NOT do that. The paint will run and make yellow full of spots of black, we don't want that. Let the paint dry and then carefully place the cut out on top of the icing.

If I end up being a serial killer.

So you know when serial killers get on death row, they're given a chance to eat whatever they want. It's called " one last meal".

http://imgur.com/gallery/7ddjs


If this ever happened to me, I have a LONG list of what I would want to eat.

1. Blueberry Cheesecake, Apple Crumble, and Chocolate mousse from Big Chill. And lamb chops also!

2. Shawarmas from SDA.
3. Sarojini Nagar Momos.
4. Half bacon and half sausage pizza from Joey's.
5. Chola Kulcha from school.
6. Hot Chocolate from Mrs. Magpie
7. Phuchka with mishti jol from VP
8. Mutton chaap and Paratha from Zeeshan
10. Arsalan ka mutton biryani
11. Ghiya at Aarushi's house
12. Kapil's Mom's Aloo Parathas with Aloo Sabzi with chocolate pudding
13. Red Velvet at Elma's
 14. Anmol's Quadruple Chocolate Cake
15. Rudraksh's mom's chocolate cake WITHOUT NUTS. JUST FOR ME.
16. Madhav's mom's Spaghetti
17. Auyon's mom's cheeni paratha
18. Cheese Omelette that Anubhav makes.

Who likes Peanut Butter?

So my favorite sammich in the world is peanut butter and jam. And I was just talking to him about this last night so today morning I was bored and needed something to do and needed to make him something bake-y cause IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY TOMORROW! WOHOOOO. AND I bought peanut butter just yesterday, so purchase excitement was still there. Thus, these were born :)

Jam filled cupcakes with peanut butter frosting :)

Okay so I looked this up online and there wasn't any recipe that I liked. So I decided to combine 2 different recipes.

These are plain white cake cupcakes.

I followed this recipe to the T and got amazing results. I halved the proportions though, to make a batch of 6.

The peanut butter frosting is also fairly simple.

1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 tbsp cream cheese

blend this until you're happy with the consistency. i blended for about 6 minutes.

Now coming to the jam filling.
After you're done with the cupcakes, you take them out and let them cool. Once they're cool, take a knife and make a whole in the center of the cupcake. Now pull the top of the hole out. With the back end of a spoon, scoop out how much ever you want. Fill this hole or whatever you want to call it with jam and then take the cupcake bits that you scooped out to cover the hole. Okay man I have used the word hole too many times.

Then ice the cupcake. I tried piping. Failed miserably, so maybe next time. So I just used a spoon and spread icing on top of the cupcake and sprinkled it with sprinkles and voilaaaa.

And hopefully tomorrow, I'm going to put a candle on one of these and sing happy birthday to the hottest person in the room. And maybe put a little frosting on his face. ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SQUIGGLES I LOVE YOU.

Tralalalalalala RED VELVET CHEESECAKE!

Sooooo.
Let's just say that I'm a genius. :) My special friend told me that he loves the red velvet and the cheesecake I bake. Why not combine the two? I thought to myself. And that night, in my head, I sorted that idea out and now, I present to you the reality :)

My first self invented recipe ever. :)

[ Baby, I hope you're proud :) ]

Refer to the cheesecake post, follow the instructions.
Scoop a cup of the batter and keep aside aside.
Add 1 tsp Red food Coloring + 1 tbsp cocoa powder + a dash of vinegar [ optional. vinegar is just to accentuate the red color] to the batter kept aside.

Layer tin with crust.  [ This time around, I added a little bit of sugar and cocoa powder to the crust. And then I layered the bottom of the tin with the crust and put it in the oven for 10 mins at 175C, just to make sure it was nice and firm, if you're doing this, make sure the crust is completely cool before you add the batter]
First pour the red batter and then the non red batter. Take a spoon and swirl.

Bake in a water bath for an hour and 20 mins at 150C. Refrigerate. Cut. [ The water bath just sounds fancy, and when you say things like that, people actually take you seriously. It's nothing, just put some water in a baking tray and then put the cake tin onto the tray and done!]

TADAAAAAAAAAA.

Varun's not quite Red Velvet.

So! My " friend " Varun is in town for the summer for a bit, and he wanted to eat my Red Velvet Cupcakes. I mean, not my cupcakes, the ones I bake :p People who know both him and me would be able to understand why it was important to clarify.

Anyway, so disaster happened. And I realized that the bottle of red food coloring I thought I had wasn't actually food coloring but strawberry essence. WHICH btw, is my latest discovery.

So this is my not quite Red Velvet cupcakes ka recipe

1 cup maida
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 TBS strawberry essence
1 and a half tsp vinegar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp coffee powder
1/2 cup butter milk ] [1/2 cup milk + 1 tbs vinegar]
LOTS of cocoa powder to fix the damage done.

Okay very simple. Cream the butter and sugar first. And then add everything else.
Mix mix mix.
Grease a cupcake tray. Put in cupcake paper. Fill them half way through.
Bake in an oven, at 170C for 25 mins :)

Better than Biryani Mutton.

I'm calling this what I'm calling it because this was an impromptu decision. [ In no way am I implying that this mutton is better than Biryani, it will be a sin to even compare] I was all set to make Biryani, and then, my door bell rang and it was a delivery man delivering a parcel to me. That parcel contained something I'm going to cherish for a VERY long time. My first ever cook book! I've bought cook books before, but I haven't ever been gifted one. The book's called " Oh! Calcutta Cookbook" , and as the name suggests, the book's full of bengali food recipes. [ Oh! Calcutta is a Bengali restaurant, my dad's favorite]

A bengali loves mutton. Actually, anyone with taste buds loves mutton. Bengalis just love their mutton more than usual.

Making mutton is easier than I thought! It's a little tricky, because you have to constantly pay attention and you can't let yourself distracted [ the mutton will end up burning if you do], and temperature is a big deal and so are the measurements. But hey, I hadn't made mutton before, and I was determined to do it without any external help, so paying attention to detail was something I had to do.

The recipe
Again, like most meat recipes, it has 2 parts.

Note : I used 500 gm of mutton!

The marinade-
Very simple.

One chota cup of dahi [ I used a 100gm mother dairy thing]
20 gm ginger paste
15 gm garlic paste
[ if you don't have ready made paste at home, you can use the powdered ones that they sell in the market. Or just make your own paste, like I did. Very very simple. Ginger + 1 tsp water + mixie for 15 seconds and done! Same thing with garlic]
1/2 tsp garam masala
A pinch of nutmeg

Mix all of this together and put it in a box [ which has a lid] and put the mutton in [ after you have cleaned and washed it] and make sure all the pieces are nicely coated with the marinade.

Put the lid on. Put inside the fridge.

Now the recipe says marinade for an hour, I chose to marinade for 3 and a half.


The curry

Put 100 ml of mustard oil in a kadhai and heat. Wait for 2 mins and add about 500 gm chopped onions to it and fry till they're nice and brown. Add marinated mutton to this along with 5 gm of whole garam masala + 10 gm garlic paste + 1 tsp ginger paste. And cook for 15 minutes. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T BURN THE MUTTON. IF IT STARTS TO BURN, DON'T PANIC. IT'S OKAY. Move on to the next step as and when this happens.

After 15 minutes, add a chota bottle of coke worth of water to this and constantly keep stirring on medium heat..

TASTE. [ the gravy] The recipe books don't ask you to taste, and I think that's what fundamentally wrong with cookbooks. You can't blindly follow a recipe. Taste, every step along the way. Do what you think you should. If you want to make adjustments, DO SO. Without thinking about what the book says.

I didn't like how it tasted, so I decided to add 4 teaspoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of salt, a little bit of nutmeg, and one table spoon of red chili powder.

I also added potatoes cut in quarters that I par boiled in the microwave for 7 minutes.

Once you're happy with how it tastes, let the mutton simmer for about 25 minutes [ depending on how soft you want it] and tadaaaaa, done! [ 25 minutes is how long it takes for mutton to be thoroughly cooked. if you want it softer, cook for longer]

Another pointer is the gravy. Add more water if you like your mutton with a lot of gravy. Let it reduce if you don't. I chose to reduce it. In Bangla, mutton without gravy is called Kosha Mangsho...which is what this dish was originally called.

I served this with rice.

I used Basmati rice, that I boiled in salt water, along with some tej patta [ bay leaves?] and cloves. And then once it's cooked, add ghee to it and it will taste and smell beautiful.

DONE!

I guarantee that this will look and taste and smell amazing. It will blow your mind. It definitely blew mine.
And I'm hoping it blows my boyfriend's mind also when I make it for him. He's a bengali, so we take mutton very seriously.

BATMAN COOKIES HELL YES!

I always told my boyfriend I'd make these for him. He has a strange obsession with Batman, which has been passed on to me.
We might not be together anymore, but this is something I wanted to do. For him.
A batch of Batman cookies :)

I have been trying for FOREVER to perfect these. I even went to the Metallurgy department of my college and made myself a Batman stencil, to make life easier.
[ Didn't work, but that's a different story]

And finally. After 2 failed and very disappointing attempts, that almost got tears in my eyes, the cookies have been perfected.

Thank fucking god.


3 parts to this.
The cookie - A plain round sugar cookie.
The yellow bit - Yellow colored royal icing.
The batman cut out - Gum paste painted black.

Let's tackle this one by one.

The cookie. [ makes a small batch of 6, a big batch of 12-15, depending on the size of the cutter you're using. I used a steel bowl, had nothing else]

1 egg
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup + 1/4 cup maida
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
a pinch of salt

Mix all the ingredients to form a nice and soft dough. Roll out the dough on a surface that has been coated with flour.
Cut out in any shape that you want.
Bake in an oven for 8 minutes [ exact] at 200 degrees.

The icing - It's very basic and simple. Also, very quick. I used Nigella's recipe for Royal icing that can be found HERE.
I didn't make the entire thing, I halved the proportions. And once it was made, I beat in about a teaspoon of yellow food coloring and it was done.

The Batman cut out.
This is the most tricky part of this whole thing and I'm not going to lie, for someone who lacks even an ounce of patience, this was like climbing The Everest.
I used a paper stencil as reference, you can print the Batman logo out and cut it out and use it on top of your gum paste to shape it.

Here's how you make gumpaste
2 cups sugar
1/2 of 1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tbs gelatin powder
1/2 tbs honey.



This is a little tricky, but if I could do it, I'm sure anyone can.

Put the gelatin and water in a saucepan and let the gelatin soak till it becomes foamy.
Put this saucepan over LOW heat and add the honey and keep stirring till all of it has dissolved and the mixture is clear. [ I added a teaspoon of homemade black food coloring to this, to get the Batman black. Black food coloring is equal parts of red, yellow, and blue food coloring. Google taught me that]

Take this off the heat and add the sugar in it and keep mixing until you can't mix anymore.
Then, take the dough out and keep kneading [ on a surface that has been sprinkled with sugar] till it stops sticking to your hands.
And a lot of kneading later, your gumpaste is ready.

Roll this out, and get it to be as thin as you possibly can get it to be. Use a rolling pin or press down with a flat plate or something. Just get it to be thin. The thinner the gum paste, the easier it is to carve.
Then put the stencil over it and use a knife to carve it out.
VERY CAREFULLY place the cut outs on a plate.

Ice the cookies and put the cut out on top of the yellow icing.
Refrigerate.

And if you're as amazing as I am at this whole baking shindig, your cookies will look something like this.

Valentines' Day Choc Coffee Fudge Cake

This cake was introduced to me by a classmate of mine, back in the day. She hated me, I hated her, but together, we shared the love for baked goods.
So as a farewell present to me, in class 10, she handed me the recipe.
This cake went on to become the reason Aarushi and Rudraksh would come over. This was also Shibangi's 17th birthday cake, and her dad's birthday cake too. This is what I used to cheer my friends up, and everytime Suhina was sad, she'd ask for this.
It's delicious to say the least, and surprisingly easy.

I bake several versions of this cake, but those versions I will keep for later. This is a cake I'm proud to say that I have perfected. It's brilliant and no fail. No amount of screwing up will screw this cake up. It's like the boyfriend you never had but always wanted. The kind of boyfriend who forgives you even if you fuck up and treats you well, you know? It's really sad that I have to equate food to people, but that's what it's come to so what to do.

The recipe [ makes 2 8 inch cakes] [ half the recipe, if needed, that's what i usually do]
2 cups maida
2 cups sugar
1 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp coffee powder
a pinch of salt
1 cup milk
1 cup water
3/4 cup oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs

The process is simple and routine. Dry ingredients in one bowl. Wet in another. Mix both. And voilaaa, there you have it. Yum cake batter.
Grease and flour the tin, add batter to tin.
Bake at 150 for 30 mins.

And whooop.

I had cream cheese frosting left over from yesterday, so I was very generous with it today and smeared it all over this beautiful cake. And because I have a bottle of sprinkles, I was generous with that too :D I still can't get over how good it tastes. PAT ON YOUR BACK DISHARI!

Valentines' Day Red Velvet!

Valentines' Day is just around the corner. Can't have Valentines' without Red Velvet. I'm not in Delhi anymore, so I can't cajole somebody to take me to Elma's and buy me a slice of their signature Red Velvet, so I decided to make one of my own and settle for a homemade version instead.
And I wasn't disappointed, not one bit.

I followed the recipe Anmol's put up on her blog.
The recipe can be found - here


Even the frosting is her recipe, but instead of using 2 cups of sugar, I used one cup, and I used a little more butter, about 80 grams. Instead of sprinkling the top with crumbs, I used fancy sprinkles that were given to me yesterday. LOTS of it. If you don't have sprinkles, don't fret. This cake is amazing just by itself without any decoration.

The recipe calls for one 8 inch cake, I baked 2 4 inch square cakes.

If like me, you've overcooked the top and the top is brown. DON'T WORRY. The knife shall come to your rescue. Just scrape the brown bits off to reveal a luscious red and there, your cake shall look perfect.

This cake tastes better when served cold. It tastes really good not cold also, when I think about it.

The frosting tastes brilliant, and goes with absolutely everything. I ate left over frosting with cookies, and put some on bread and then when there was no bread left, i just took big spoonfuls of frosting and stuffed my face. Yum.


This cake reinforces my faith in Red Velvet. It tastes SO GOOD. The cake is moist and yummy, and the frosting compliments it perfectly. The perfect Valentines' Day snack, if you ask me. I wouldn't mind lying in bed all day with my significant other [ haaa!] and eating this. No, really. That sounds like heaven right about now.

Apple Crumble!

Apple Crumble is my favorite dessert from Big Chill. And all the recipes I found online had oats in them. I hate oats. So I used my head and tried to replicate the wonder that Big Chill created.
It tasted pretty okay, I got the nice crumbly brown color on top that I wanted, so that made me pretty happy.

The apples were soft and smelled and tasted slightly of cinnamon. The crumble was doughy from the bottom, and crumbly from the top.




Really simple also, as always.

Ingredients -
2 apples
Cinnamon Powder, lots of it. Or not. Depending on how much you love cinnamon. [ i LOVE cinnamon]
Sugar - 1/2 cup granulated, 1/2 cup castor
2 tsp Lemon Juice
1/2 cup maida.
1/2 cup butter [ at room temperature]

Peel the apples and slice them as thin as you can. Mix 1/2 cup castor sugar + cinnamon powder + lemon juice to apples. Let it sit for 2 mins.
For the crumble - Mix the granulated sugar, maida and butter with your hands. Till it becomes crumbly. This is not a dough, which is why we use butter at room temperature and not melted butter.

Grease a cake tin. Or any tin. I used a tart tin with a detachable bottom. Line the bottom of the tin with your apples, and then put an even layer of the crumble over the apples.

Pop into the oven at 170 for 20 mins.

When the top starts to brown, turn the temperature down to 100 and cook for another 15 minutes.



Take out.
Serve with fresh cream. Serve hot.

My version of a break up cake.

So, break ups are difficult. And the best thing to do is to distract yourself and eat lots of chocolate and it does wonders. Believe me. I ate half the batter of the cake myself. And I feel so much better now. Chocolate induces happy hormones!

This cake has two components.
The cake + the frosting.
Now, to be honest with you, this is the first time I've tried a cooked frosting and in my opinion, it doesn't go too well with this cake. Although, it tastes great, I think it's more of a cookie icing than a cake icing. I think a simple buttercream icing would go better with this cake. I just wanted to experiment a little today, and I wanted to bake something new, and I wasn't disappointed with the results.

The cake - [ recipe makes two 9 inch cakes]

the cake is ABSOLUTELY delicious. My first time baking it and I was very impressed! It's yummy and moist and chocolaty. Yum.

2 eggs
1 3/4 cup maida
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup cocoa
1 cup buttermilk [ one cup milk + 1 tbsp vinegar, left for 5 mins]
1/2 cup melted butter
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup coffee [ 1 tbsp instant coffee powder in one cup boiling water]
1 tsp vanilla

mix the dry ingredients in one bowl. and then, add the buttermilk, eggs, butter, vanilla and beat until smooth.
add the coffee. the batter is supposed to be very runny.
grease and flour a cake tin, and pour half the batter.
shove in to the oven at 170, till the knife you insert comes out with a few crumbs stuck to it.
repeat.


frosting- [ enough to ice the entire cake]
the original recipe calls for cream of tartar, and i have no idea what that is, so i looked it up and found that vinegar is a substitute for it.

1 cup sugar
1/3 cup water
1/2 tsp vinegar
2 egg whites
1 tsp vanilla

put sugar, water, and vinegar in a pan, and bring to a boil, stirring continuously till the sugar dissolves.
mix this sugar syrup with 2 unbeaten egg whites and beat for about 7-10 mins till the frosting thickens and begins to form soft peaks.
add in vanilla.

voila.

put one cake. ice the top. and then out the second cake on top of the icing. and then ice the top of the second cake and the sides.
add whatever you want to decorate. i ran out of sprinkles, so i used gems.

very important : always wait for the cakes to cool completely before icing.

boyfrand cookies [ and abhinandan shortbread!]

my boyfriend loves biscuits. i've baked for him before, but i don't think those cookies were too nice. i'm going to see him this weekend and i wanted to do something nice for him, so i thought i'd bake him a box of cookies and pray to humanity that he likes them and abhinandan loves shortbread, like me! and he's going through some stuff, so i'm going to parcel him a batch of these in a desperate attempt to cheer him up.
also, i used to hate HATE baking cookies, until i discovered this brilliant recipe.

this makes about 12 average sized cookies.
fucking easy. fucking yum.

2 cups maida
1/2 cup sugar
1 slab + a little more [ depending on the consistency of your dough] melted butter
1 tsp vanilla.

preheat oven to 180.

mix sugar and butter till nice and creamy. add vanilla and maida. mix.
then make into a nice ball with your hands.
cover this ball with cling film.
put in freezer for 10 mins.
take out.
roll out the ball with a rolling pin. if your dough is flaky, worry not, shortbread is supposed to be. if it's too flaky and you don't like how it looks, add more butter. problem solved.
cut out cookies in any shape that you want. [ i like gingerbread men and circles]
put on butter paper [ if you don't have butter paper, you know the paper that the butter is wrapped in when you buy it? just use that. works the same!]

bake for 10 minutes. take out. if it's soft, don't panic. keep them out for 5 minutes, they should harden by then. if they haven't, then put them back in the oven at about 100 for 5 minutes. that should do it.
and listen. don't be sad if the edges of your cookies are brown, it doesn't matter just as long as they taste good :)

PS -if you're baking for your boyfriend like me, and your cookies fail, then taking your shirt off is a good alternative.

Strawberry Cheesecake [ not really, just cheesecake with strawberries on top]

I've tried about 7 different cheesecake recipes. And after a lot of trial and error [ emphasis on the error], I have come up with a recipe that works brilliantly.

So let's tackle this step by step. The first step is to not be scared or intimidated. It's a fucking cheesecake. It's simple. And fancy. But not the kind of fancy which is a pain in the ass. You fuck it up, and it's still edible. Cream cheese is yum. So don't worry. Nothing to worry about.

The best part of any cheesecake is the crust. Which is as easy as 1-2-3. Literally 3 steps to it.
Take a box of digestive biscuits, put them in a plastic bag, take a rolling pin and take out all your frustration on the plastic bag, with the pin. This will cause the biscuits to become biscuit crumbs.
Melt butter. Add butter to the crumbs and mix. There. Done. How much butter you add is up to you. But the butter and the crumbs need to stick together in order to form a nice solid crust.

Line the base of your tin with this mixture and that's your crust. See, normally, I'm not too particular about what tin I use. But this recipe calls for an 8 inch REMOVABLE BOTTOM tin. Believe me, normal tins are a pain when baking a cheesecake. You need a tin where the bottom is detachable. If you don't have it, then just line the inside of a normal tin with clingfilm so that you can take out the cake in one go.


The cheese bit of the cheesecake - fucking simple this is also.

1 pack of Philadelphia Cream Cheese [ weighs roughly about 225 gm] [ you can use Britannia, I'm just too fancy sometimes]
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
One tsp Vanilla essence.

Mix all these ingredients till it forms a nice LIQUID mixture. Should be smooth with no lumps. If you're too lazy to get rid of the lumps, just strain the entire thing and that should do it.

Add this to the tin with the base.

Bake at 180 for about 45 minutes.
The cake should be wobbly when you take it out. It should not be stiff. And the top should be completely white. No brown heat spots, nothing. Ideally.
But hey. That's where the strawberries come in.

If you have brown ugly spots on your cheesecake, cover it. Simple.
With anything you want. Strawberries, chocolate, gems, sprinkles. Literally anything you want, depending on how weird your taste buds are.

Refrigerate for an hour. This allows the cake to settle and become cut-able.

And if you've done everything right, your cheesecake is going to end up looking like this.

brownie + frosting + strawberry.

what it looked like

what i used to make it 

for the cake

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup maida [ flour]
1 egg
1 tbs + 1 tsp cocoa powder
1/8 tsp baking powder [ don't worry too much about precise measurement]
1/2 tsp vanilla
a pinch of salt

for the frosting 

3 tbs butter
3 tbs cocoa
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp + 1/2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp vanilla

for making it look pretty

a box of strawberries chopped up really finely.

how i made it 

1. preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius
2. you start off by melting the butter in a saucepan. then turn the heat off and stir in the sugar and keep stirring till the butter and sugar have mixed to form a satiny yellow mixture. then beat in the egg to this. [ i used an electric hand beater, but if you don't have that, a fork will work just fine also].
in another bowl, mix cocoa + flour + salt + baking powder. now add this mix, and beat it into the egg mixture. SLOWLY. One spoon full at a time.
3. add this mixture to a greased 8 inch square tin. bake for 20-25 minutes.

now, the frosting.
 if you don't have an electric beater at home, i would personally advice you to use melted butter, as this makes the mixing waaay easier

mix all the ingredients in a bowl, and keep beating it till it reaches the consistency you want it to be. if it's too thick, add a little bit of water and keep mixing. if it's too runny, add sugar + cocoa in equal amounts and mix

take the brownies out of the oven and wait for them to cool before you frost them. what happens when you don't do this, is that the heat from the brownies causes the frosting to melt and become runny.

and finally, after you're done frosting, take the strawberries and place them on top of the frosting. however you want. i'm really messy, but i know people who do a lot of pretty patterns and stuff.

refrigerate. or not.
your brownies, you decide.

wohooo

my friend has always wanted me to do this, so following in her footsteps, this is my food blog!
i really am not patient or organized enough to click pictures of every step along the way, you have the internet to guide you, but i promise to put up recipes and take pictures of the end result.
for me, if a recipe doesn't have a picture with it, i'm not going to use it. so i'm hoping there are a lot of people who follow the same principle.