I love baking with my kids.

I especially love baking with my kids when its food that I will actually let them eat.

Heart Shaped Brownie Pizzas!

Now, brownies and cream cheese aren’t exactly the ideal foods for little growing bodies, but I do love that they can eat massive amounts of strawberries!

And this Brownie Dessert Pizza is so easy to make!

Heart Shaped Brownie Pizzas!

I simply made my favorite brownies in a flat sheet pan.

This Homemade Brownie Recipe is the BEST.

Using cookie cutters, cut out various sizes of hearts.

Heart Shaped Brownie Pizzas!

I then grabbed a container of big, luscious, juicy red strawberries and cut them into heart shapes.

Next I made a cream cheese spread.

Cream cheese spread
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Cream Cheese Spread

Prep Time 25 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
I love baking with my kids.
I especially love baking with my kids when its food that I will actually let them eat.

Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a large bowl, combine all ingredients with a hand held mixer until fully incorporated

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(You have no idea how hard it was to add ONLY 1/2 cup powder sugar.  My favorite cream cheese ever has FOUR cups!  But the above recipe definitely works with the rich brownies and naturally sweet berries)

Heart Shaped Brownie Pizzas!

 

Simply spread the cream cheese over the brownie getting as close to the edges as you want.

Next I added some of my sliced “heart” strawberries.

This is where you can get creative!  Make fun designs, add more fruit, drizzle with melted chocolate or pink candy heart sprinkles.  The sky is the limit!

Heart Shaped Brownie Pizza!

If you want everything to set all pretty for a nice romatic Valentines dessert you can throw this in the fridge for a bit.

If you have no self control whats-so-ever you can just take a bite right here and now.

If you remembered that you were actually going to share with the kids, it might be good to go help them with their assembly.

Heart Shaped Brownie Pizza!

I just gave each kid a brownie pre-frosted. I also gave them a mini brownie treat so they knew what they were making.  Once they tasted the deliciousness they were SO excited to assemble their own!

Hint: Have extra strawberries on hand.  My kids kept asking if they could just eat the strawberries and I kept saying, “YES!!” eat as many as you want! (in my head thinking, yay!  Please get full on the one healthy part of this treat!)

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Colton loved to pile the strawberries high.

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Parker just liked eating them.  The kids had such fun spending time with me in the kitchen and then getting to eat the final product.

Overall, this is such a fun and easy treat for mom and kids!

(If you want to make things even easier on yourself, make the brownies the day before, cut out your shapes and refrigerate them.  For extra motivated moms, make it weeks before and freeze the brownies!)

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Amanda Rettke is the creator of I Am Baker, and the bestselling author of Surprise Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion – With a Little Something Extra Inside.Over the course of her 15+ year blogging adventure, she has been featured in and collaborated with the Food Network, New York Times, LA Times, Country Living Magazine, People Magazine, Epicurious, Brides, Romantic Homes, life:beautiful, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Mail, Star Tribune, The Globe and Mail, DailyCandy, YumSugar, The Knot, The Kitchn, and Parade, to name a few.

Reader Comments

  1. Absolutely adorable. I love the way you cut the strawberries into hearts 🙂 Always fun to bake with the kiddos!

  2. Ah! So pretty! We love brownie pizza. What a fun way to eat it. This may be out dessert for Valentine’s Day!

  3. This is beautiful. I am about to head to the store, so I am making this! I am not kidding, my town ran out of cream cheese the other day, so I went and got a LOAD. So I have that part covered!!!
    You are awesome!

  4. I am definitely not that extra motivated mom and would probably end up including the kids in the brownie making process too just because I’d have waited until the last minute to do anything. That me, procrastinator extraordinare!

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