You can yes.

If you can get your hands on some freeze dried strawberries and turn them into a powder using a food processor or blender. Then add it to the strawberry frosting. It should add some more strawberry flavor. You can find it at Trader Joe’s or online.

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I should’ve known! 🙂

So I made these a couple of days ago and thought I would drop some notes.

Brownie layer is delicious and I wouldn’t change a thing.

Strawberry layer…well, it was delicious, but I don’t think it was strawberry-flavored enough. (I used Smucker’s Seedless Strawberry Jam.) The lack of strawberry flavor didn’t surprise me because you’re spreading 1/4 cup of jam over 117 square inches of brownie…so there ends up being VERY little strawberry jam in any given bite. And the ganache and brownie are so intensely chocolate-flavored that they really sort of submerge the gentle strawberry flavor. Next time, I may experiment and double the jam, and see if the filling still sets properly. Either that or maybe adding some strawberry extract to it.

The ganache layer was also delicious. I’ve made ganache many times before, and this struck me as very “thin” when it was first stirred together (although of course it thickened up a great deal as it set). It was very sticky even after chilling, so these were sort of messy to cut. Next time I may decrease the cream slightly, or increase the chocolate chips, so that it’s thicker to start with and perhaps less gooey.

But in summation, as my wife said, “There is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with these brownies!”

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I used salted 🙂

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