The best chocolate brownie recipes for Valentines Day - from a baking mix

Oh my goodness, Valentines Day! So, New Year is done, and now we start with all the special days, I honestly can’t believe it!

For Valentines Day I like to do a special dinner for the family and then get the kids involved in making desserts and little paper garlands, hanging balloons and doing the overall pink and red heart decorations!

This year will be no different! We have decided on doing chocolate brownies, a little different this year!

I have made these before and for me the best way to do it is to make the brownies ahead of time as they need to be super duper cool to add the ice cream, otherwise that will become one great mess! Prep everything and then use the same heart cutter to cut out the ice cream and sandwich in between the two brownie layers! Keep in the freezer while your making the rest! It helps to keep the ice cream frozen but won’t freeze the chocolate brownies!

For a special treat we are doing chocolate brownie hearts filled with ice cream and dipped into chocolate and rolled into crushed hazelnuts!

It seems like a lot of work when looking at it, but honestly, it’s not! The ice cream is store bought, for the brownies I use the Flour & Dough baking mixes, it’s important to use a good brownie mix that tastes great as this really is the winner here, and chocolate chips to melt and dip! You can use whatever ice cream and nuts or sprinkles, or whatever you really feel like! I prefer vanilla ice cream as it doesn’t take away from the chocolate brownie flavour and hazelnuts, as hazelnuts and chocolate are just the best!

Remember that these ice cream filled chocolate brownies need to be served immediately, I don’t recommend freezing them for longer than 30 minutes!!

This really is the best brownie recipe, you can use this baking mix to make a lot of special treats for your family! It doesn’t use a ton of pantry stuff and doesn’t take hours to make! We love doing all sorts of interesting things to this mix!

Here are a few more ideas that I found that you can use to make brownies a little more special!