Strawberry Brownie Recipe: Easy Strawberry Cake Mix Brownies
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Last updated: Aug 18, 2024 • 2 min read
Customize a strawberry brownie recipe with various strawberry products, from freeze-dried strawberries to a strawberry purée, for a variation on traditional brownies.
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What Are Strawberry Brownies?
Strawberry brownies are chocolate brownies with strawberry flavor resulting from the addition of fresh strawberries, strawberry frosting, strawberry jam, or another strawberry product. Strawberry desserts are popular in the spring and summer months when the weather is warm and strawberries are in season. Strawberry brownies can be a unique alternative to chocolate-covered strawberries, a popular dessert for Valentine’s Day and other occasions.
4 Ways to Add Strawberry Flavor to Brownies
Depending on the seasonal availability of strawberries, you can choose one of these four ways to add strawberry flavor to your chocolate brownies:
- 1. Mix dried strawberries into the brownie batter. Fresh strawberries are too wet for brownie batter, but dried strawberries work well. Slice or chop the dried strawberries, which have a concentrated strawberry flavor and add a slight crunch to chewy brownies.
- 2. Start with strawberry cake mix. A box of cake mix already contains all the dry ingredients you need for strawberry brownies, including flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Enhance a storebought strawberry cake mix with cocoa powder, fresh eggs, neutral oil, and any other flavors you want to make cake mix brownies that will be tender and moist.
- 3. Swirl strawberry cheesecake into the brownies. To mimic the flavor of cheesecake, beat cream cheese, sugar, and strawberry jam with a hand mixer. Then dollop the cheesecake mixture onto the brownie batter and swirl it in with a toothpick or wooden skewer before you add the baking pan to the oven. To add an intense fruit flavor to your strawberry brownies, learn how to make strawberry jam with Chef Dominique Ansel.
- 4. Top the brownies with strawberry frosting. Whip together room temperature butter, powdered sugar, strawberry jam or purée, and whole milk until the mixture is light and fluffy. After your brownies have baked, cool them completely in the baking dish before spreading the frosting over their surface and slicing the brownies into equal pieces.
Strawberry Brownie Recipe
makes
9 strawberry browniesprep time
20 mintotal time
45 mincook time
25 minIngredients
- 1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 2
Grease an 8-inch-by-8-inch square baking pan with nonstick cooking spray and line it with parchment paper.
- 3
In a large bowl, mix the strawberry cake mix and cocoa powder.
- 4
With a hand mixer, beat in one egg at a time.
- 5
Add the oil and vanilla extract.
- 6
With a wooden spoon, mix in the white chocolate chips.
- 7
Pour the strawberry brownie batter into the prepared pan, spreading it into an even layer.
- 8
Bake the brownies until a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes.
- 9
Cool the brownies in the baking pan before slicing them into 9 equal pieces.
- 10
Store leftover strawberry brownies in an airtight container.
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