Lemon Brownies With Lemon Frosting- YES PLEASE! - One of the Easiest Desserts!

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Although the video begins with a snowy winter scene, the creator decides to embrace the spirit of spring by making lemon brownies topped with a tangy lemon frosting. The recipe starts with preheating the oven to 350 degrees and preparing a 9 by 13 inch baking pan with cooking spray. For the batter, the baker combines butter and sugar in a mixing bowl, noting that while a stand mixer is often recommended, a simple hand-held mixer works perfectly well for this task. The process continues by adding eggs one at a time to ensure they are fully incorporated, followed by vanilla extract, lemon juice, flour, baking powder, salt, and finally about a tablespoon of fresh lemon zest. Once all the dry and wet ingredients are mixed together until smooth, the batter is poured into the prepared pan and gently spread out before being baked for approximately twenty minutes. The baker checks for doneness using a fork since toothpicks were unavailable, extending the baking time slightly if the center remains too gooey, resulting in brownies that are perfectly set with perhaps slightly crispy edges. While the brownies cool to room temperature, the creator prepares the frosting by beating together softened butter, cream cheese, lemon juice, additional lemon zest, and powdered sugar until smooth. This creamy mixture is then spread generously over the cooled brownies, which can be served immediately or garnished with a final dusting of lemon zest for extra flavor. The video concludes with the baker cutting into the finished dessert to share it with family, receiving enthusiastic approval from her thirteen-year-old daughter and ten-year-old granddaughter, while her younger children also enjoy the sweet treat.

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it's springtime but at my house there's still a foot of snow in some areas so I thought in order to feel more like springtime I need something lemony so I am making our lemon brownies with lemon frosting [Music] [Applause] now for this recipe you need sugar flour powdered sugar a block of cream cheese butter four eggs baking powder and some lemons preheat your oven to 350 degrees next you're going to take a 9 by 13 pan and spray it with some cooking spray now for the next part it says to use a stand mixer now I have something to admit to you I don't actually own a stand mixer I just have these and they work just fine to my mixing bowl I'm going to add one cup of butter then I have one and a half cups of sugar then we're just going to mix this up add one egg at a time and mix in between now you're going to do this for all four eggs and you're going to mix it until it's all well combined next you're going to add just a little bit of vanilla it says a dash I'm doing a teaspoon and then a half cup of lemon juice then just mix it up then we have two cups of flour [Music] teaspoon of baking powder then I just have a dash of salt and the last thing we need is lemon zest now I don't use my zester very often so you're about to go where not many people have gone before this is my random drawer oh don't cringe all right you can cringe if you want to I just have so many fun things that I use that I need a place oh there it is okay so and you need just about a tablespoon of zest lemon zest all right about one tablespoon yum it smells so good then you're just gonna mix it all together again please hold is two tablespoons of lemon zest all right and we're just going to pour this into our prepared baking sheet or baking pan 9x13 you know what I'm talking about then gently spread it out [Music] next you're just going to throw it in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes when it's all done go ahead and pull it out of the oven now usually you do like a toothpick test but I'm out of Toothpick so we just got to do a fork test um it's a little gooey I think we're gonna cook it for about three more minutes all right I let it go in for a few more minutes it looking good it might have got a little burned on the edges so I did it like extra five minutes maybe do like three now you want this to cool completely while it's cooling cooling of room temperature butter four ounces of cream cheese three tablespoons of lemon juice one tablespoon of lemon zest and then about two-thirds cup of powdered sugar let's mix this all together [Music] and you're gonna take your frosting put right on top of your brownies [Music] I'm gonna let the frosting stiffen up just a little bit then I'm going to cut right into them now you can serve them just like this or you can add a little lemon zest on top now for the best part of the day [Music] that is good so that'd be fun to let my kids try it so the 13 year olds loved it the six-year-old um not so much now the 10 year old yeah she thought it was a winner Harper the one-year-old um she liked it I wasn't quite sure what to think but then she she liked it later in if you want more dessert recipes I have plenty for you you can find them just right up there alright I'll see you next time