Photo Gallery: Heart Shaped Brownies

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1. Use a heart shape cutter to cut several hearts out of a sheet of brownies.
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2. Flip the brownies over onto a rack placed over parchment paper. Melt chocolate coating and pour over the brownies. Ensure all sides of the brownie are covered with chocolate.
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3. To make fondant roses, sheet the fondant into a strip about 10 ins. long and 4 ins. wide. For smaller roses, make the strip shorter. Fold the fondant in half lengthwise.
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4. Roll the fondant into roses, pressing the fondant together about 1 in. from the top. Fold the edges of the rose out slightly.
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5. Make several roses in pink and red fondant. Use a cut paper tube to pipe piping gel on the outer edges of the roses.
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6. Dip the roses into red or pink sanding sugar to add a little ﾓbling.ﾔ Trim the excess fondant from the bottom of the roses.
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7. Use tip No. 5 to pipe a hot pink swirl, then outline the brownie. Pipe a dot of icing in the upper left corner of the heart to hold a rose.
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8. Place a large pink rose dipped red sanding sugar on the brownie. With leaf tip No. 352, pipe three green petals on the rose.
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9. For a different heart design, use tip No. 4 to outline the brownie heart with red icing.
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10. Pipe an appropriate message using tip No. 4. Add a dot of icing to adhere a pink rose dipped in pink sanding sugar to the top of the heart. Use leaf tip No. 352 to pipe two green leaves around the rose.
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11. Outline another heart with pink icing using tip No. 4 and a scallop motion. Pipe a message with the same tip.
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