Best Brownies

The first-graders at Summit School of Ahwatukee hold a Fairytale Ball every year and Fairytale Brownies are usually served during the event.

The children always write letters to Fairytale Brownies afterwards to tell us what they think of our fudge brownies. Here are some of my favorites:

Sahil writes: Thank you for these brownies. These are the best brownies I had in my whole entire life. I will apsolutely exploed because I like them so much.




















Mataia says: Thank you for the brownies! I had one. It was the best brownie I had ever had in my life! And they were fabulous!!! My two alder sisters had one to. I think they wanted to get as many as they could and pack them in there pussis and leev! I loved them just to saiy agen. Good by now and thank you agen!
















Jocelyn writes: I love the scrumptious treats. My mom had one. She said it is good. My dad had one to. He said the same thing! I thot the same thing. My sister is elerjeckt so she was very sad. Thank you for the brownies!!!



Maximus writes: Thys are apsilutey the best browneys ive ever had in my life! How do you make them? They are so good. Ther so chokcitley. Thank you for donating them.



And Jessica writes: The best brownies I've ever tasted are these! I could eat 2,000,000 of your brownies. They are the best brownies I've ever tasted!

Thank you, Summit School! We love receiving your rave reviews.

As I posted last week, I used our delicious brownies to make the desserts for my Oscar-watching party on Sunday. I promised a follow-up, so here it is. Unfortunately, my plan for mini cheesecakes with crushed gourmet brownies for a crust did not go as well as I'd hoped (I couldn't get them out of the pan without crushing them!), so I scrapped that plan.

The mini brownie sandwiches, however, were a BIG hit! I started with our Original brownies, cut them into smaller squares, and then cut them in half so I had a top and bottom brownie "crust" for the sandwiches. *Note: because Fairytale Brownies are such fudgy brownies, the best way to cut them is to freeze them first. I filled them with a modification of Alyssa's peanut butter topping from her peanut buster brownies. I wanted it to be a little thinner than hers, so I added whipping cream and some powdered sugar to the peanut butter, cream cheese and brown sugar. Here's what they looked like (that's a veggie/cheese tray in the background if you're wondering):



They were delicious, and our guests loved them. I even heard someone say they were the best brownies they had ever tasted!

I just wanted to share a really great blog article that was written by Geoff Fox, who is a weatherman on WTNH New Channel 8 in Connecticut. Geoff's wife Helaine decided to send brownies as a holiday gift this last December and the scheduled delivery date was set for December 21st. The following story is from Geoff's blog.

"This blog is often the best place to give a kiss on the cheek to a business which has gone above and beyond the call. That's especially true of David Kravetz at Fairytale Brownies (brownies.com) who came through and saved the day in the midst of their/our Christmas rush. Fairytale Brownies is a Phoenix based business. This is not a case of someone being nice because they've watched me on TV for the last 25 years. Helaine sent a gift to a friend. The package tracking info said it would be there on the 21st.  When Helaine hadn't heard from the friend by the 23rd she called. No delivery! Except that's not what the tracking data said. UPS said the package had been delivered to her apartment building. 

Helaine called Fairytale and spoke with David. Whether he always answers the phones or was drawn in for Christmas isn't clear. He saw we'd been good customers over time. He didn't need to see any more. David said he'd make it right even though Fairytale could have defensibly claimed it was a UPS problem. As someone with a stake in the business, he knew this was where long term relationships are made and lost. If Helaine would provide a daytime address, he'd sent it overnight at his expense. 

This is a Christmas story with a happy ending. The brownies arrived the next day. Thanks David! The Foxes of Connecticut really appreciate your kindness and wanted everyone to know! Oh, and the brownies are really yummy!"

Our goal at Fairytale Brownies is to provide the highest quality products and incomparable service. That's why we offer our "One Pure Promise" which states from choosing the finest Belgian chocolate to our customer's last bite, we are uncompromising in our standards for product quality and customer service. Our "One Pure Promise" is supported by our unconditional guarantee: If you or your gift recipients are ever dissatisfied - even a little bit - we will cheerfully do whatever it takes to make things right, whether it's replacing the brownies or issuing a credit or refund! Thank you, Geoff for sharing your story! You can read Geoff's blog post here  http://www.geofffox.com/MT/archives/tag/christmas. 

Order brownies at brownies.com.

The results from last night's Academy Awards are in: Jeff Bridges won Best Actor, Sandra Bullock won Best Actress, "The Hurt Locker" won Best Film and Kathryn Bigelow won Best Director.

We had 49 entries to our contest and eight winners. Congratulations to Cheryl Ford, Shelly Merrill, Jill Hayes, Mari, Lucy McCann, Kayte Cookwatts, Lorie and Fairytale Fan. Please email your contact information to aandrews@brownies.com so that I can ship your fudge brownie winnings!

Winners will receive a Congratulations Morsel 24 which includes Original, Caramel, Chocolate Chip and Walnut flavors.

Thank you all for participating in our contest. We'll think of more ways to win our gourmet brownies in the future.

This week I had to get new glasses, due to always getting a headache when I wore my current prescription (this went on for a full year, not recommended). Well I went to a new eye doctor, who was very personable, funny and figured out my issue. My current glasses were to strong of a prescription. While he was doing the examination, he noticed the sweater I was wearing displaying the Fairytale Brownies logo. He inquired of the business and said he would visit our website brownies.com. The next day I took him an 8-Sprite Favor ($15.95) to try. This gift delights any and all recipients. It contains 8 of our most popular flavors in the snack size portions. Needless to say days later I received a thank you card in the mail. Chocolate brownies are always a hit!

~Happy Reading

Hello Fairytale Fans!
The votes are in and everyone agrees, Fairytale Brownies are great!  These gourmet brownies are much appreciated by gift recipients everywhere.  Who doesn't love the taste of fudge brownies!
Here is some of the wonderful feedback we recently received from recipients of delicious Fairyale Brownies:

Gloria wrote "Best brownies I've ever eaten in my 75 years!"
Dave says "It was the best Valentine's Day gift!"
From Chris, "Great brownies! The entire family enjoyed them for Valentine's Day.  They are the best!"
Laurie wrote "These brownies were absolutely delicious.  They were a great Valentine's Day present!"
And from Marina, "The best Valentine's Day present ever!"

There you have it; Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day and Father's Day, Fairytale Brownies makes the perfect gift!

We recently asked our Fairytale Brownies Facebook fans what kind of Spring offers they would like to see. Most of the responses from our fans were to run more contests/giveaways in addition to more Free Shipping offers... You asked for it - and we listened!

Currently, we are running a new contest to win a Congratulations Morsel 24 if you correctly predict the top 4 Oscar winners for this Sundays Oscar Awards Show! For your chance to enter/win this contest please visit Fairytale Brownies Blog at blog.brownies.com or click this direct link http://blog.brownies.com/blog/ask-alyssa-all-things-prmarketing/0/0/predict-oscar-winners-and-receive-fairytale-brownies. Good Luck!

Also, if you order brownies online by Friday March 5th, receive FREE STANDARD SHIPPING on your order of $50 or more! Simply use priority code FACEBOOK at checkout to receive your shipping discount. Fairytale Brownies has a large selection of gourmet chocolate brownie gifts to choose from including Special Occasion packaging such as Happy Birthday Gifts, Thank You Gifts, Welcome New Baby Gifts, Congratulations Gifts, Easter Gifts, Thinking of You Gifts, and St. Patrick's Day Gifts! Send brownies to your friends and loved ones this Spring, it's a gift they won't forget! I promise! Visit brownies.com for more information.

I am sad to say this will be my final blog as a team member of Fairytale Brownies. Although I won't be here physically I will forever spread the brownie love, obviously I have become a huge fan of our gourmet brownies over the years. While I am excited to explore new ventures I will miss the smell of a fresh baked fudge brownies when I come to work each morning. I will be frequently reading the brownie blog to stay updated on the behind the scenes happenings at the Fairytale bakery. It has been a great 5 years, Fairytale Brownies is not only the best brownie company but an awesome company to work for. Thank you to all of my customers, co-workers and the many friends I have made over the years. It's been a very sweet experience but now it's time to go... Goodbye!

As you may know, the Academy Awards are this Sunday, honoring all the best films of 2009. As self-professed movie dorks, my husband and I host an Oscar viewing party each year where we dress up, eat hors d'oeuvres and desserts, drink champagne, and see who can guess the most winners correctly. This year, I'm planning to make all my desserts with our delicious gourmet Fairytale Brownies. I have a couple of great brownie recipes that I thought I would share.

Mini brownie cheesecakes: For these, I will run some of our dark chocolate brownies through a food processor until they become delicious brownie crumbs and press them into a mini muffin tin. I'll just use my favorite cheesecake recipe, bake and top with some brownie pieces or fruit.

Mini brownie sandwiches: For this, I'll use our bite-sized Magic Morsels, which are already the perfect mini brownie size. I'll cut them in half so they're half the thickness as usual and make a delicious creamy filling. Or maybe I'll try brownie ice cream sandwiches...

Do you have a great brownie recipe for a bite-sized dessert? Share it in the comments below, and I just might use it this weekend. I'll also post pictures of my gourmet brownie creations next week so you can see how they turn out! 

If Fairytale Brownies was up for an Oscar, the company would win for Best Gourmet Brownies. Of course I'm biased, but I know others would agree with me. We DO bake awesome fudge brownies.

March 7 (Sunday) is a big night for the film industry: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will air on ABC. Although there's no Oscar for Best Brownie, Fairytale Brownies would like to award a brownie gift to the Fairytale Fan who accurately predicts the winners in the Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Film and Best Director categories.

The prize? A Congratulations Morsel 24. The gift includes two dozen bite-sized 1.5" x 1.5" Magic Morsels in four flavors (Original, Caramel, Chocolate Chip and Walnut).

Simply cast your vote for all four categories by Friday at 2 p.m. (whatever your time zone is.) The person or people who predict all four winners accurately will win the Morsel 24.

The nominees are:

Best Actor in a Leading Role - Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart;" George Clooney in "Up in the Air;" Colin Firth in "A Single Man;" Morgan Freeman in "Invictus;" and Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker."

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side;" Helen Mirren in "The Last Station;" Carey Mulligan in "An Education;" Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire;" and Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia."

Best Motion Picture of the Year - "Avatar," "The Blind Side," "District 9," "An Education," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," "A Serious Man," "Up," and "Up in the Air."

Achievement in Directing (Best Director) - James Cameron for "Avatar;" Kathryn Bigelow for "The Hurt Locker;" Quentin Tarantino for "Inglourious Basterds;" Lee Daniels for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire;" and Jason Reitman for "Up in the Air."

Cast your vote as a comment to this blog. The winner(s) will be notified on Monday and will receive their brownie gift by the end of the week. Good luck!

March has arrived, and I started thinking about creative ways to use Fairytale Brownies in a St. Patrick's Day recipe. I scoured the internet for ideas and found this really great recipe from About.com's BusyCooks. The recipe is called Irish Mint Brownies - but I made a few small adjustments. Instead of baking the Mint Brownies from scratch, I've substituted them for our individually wrapped gourmet Mint Chocolate Brownies - which are to die for (and my personal favorite). I thought they would be perfect in this great brownie recipe! Imagine hand drizzled chocolate mint spread over our rich 3" x 3" Belgian Chocolate brownie. Yum!

Ingredients:
12 Mint Chocolate Fairytale Brownies

Green Frosting:
1 tub vanilla ready to spread frosting
1/2 tsp peppermint extract
Few drops of green food coloring

Top Frosting:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
1 1/2 tbsp water
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp vanilla

Preparation:
Unwrap all 12 Fairytale Brownies. Arrange them on a serving plate, or line them in a pan. In a small bowl combine frosting, green food coloring and mint extract and beat will until frosting is evenly colored. Spread the mixture over the Fairytale Brownies. 

In a medium bowl, mix with a wire wisk the powdered sugar and cocoa. In a microwave safe bowl, combine the butter, water and microwave for 30-45 seconds until the butter melts. Add the powdered sugar and wisk until smooth. Stir in the vanilla until smooth. You may need to add more water to reach a pouring consistency. Then carefully poor this frosting over the green frosting and gently spread to cover. Don't worry if some of the chocolate frosting mixes with the green frosting - that just looks pretty!

I've included a picture of the recipe, however keep in mind yours will look different if you use Fairytale Brownies. They will be square and not in a pie shape. 

    
Here is the original recipe pic    Here is our Mint Chocolate Fairytale Brownie

You can visit our website brownies.com to order brownies online, or you can call our customer service line at 800.324.7982 to reach our 24-hour customer service number. I've included the link to our Fairytale Dozen (here) but don't forget, if you are ordering brownies for this recipe, you'll want to order all Mint Chocolate Brownies so click the Choose Your Own Flavors button! I hope you find this brownie recipe delicious and useful. 

Recipe courtesy of Busy Cooks (About.com http://busycooks.about.com/od/barcookierecipes/r/mintbrownies.htm)

In 1999, Fairytale Brownies won an Innovation Small Business Person of the Year Award from the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. They called us recently to see what was going on with us and our gourmet brownies. Wow, looking back makes you realize there is always room for innovation and improvement.
Our flavor profiles are similar and goal of baking the best brownies but there was no social marketing such as this blog and no makeup artist as you can see in these photos.












It was fun to reminisce and to see how there is always room for innovation and change. Enjoy the April article and thank you to the Chamber and the city of Phoenix for continued support of our company.          Have a Fairytale Day!

Hello, Hello, Hello...... to all of the wonderful readers of the Fairytale Brownies Blog. I know it has been a while since you have heard from your happy customer service team member and reading about the glorious stories from customers ordering brownies online. Well your resident "Brownie Gift Giving tour guide is here!" I love reading all the wonderful comments and raves from all of our customers, so since I love them so much I anounce them to all of the staff at FTB on Thursdays, we call it the Rave Wave. We get all kinds a letters from customers that have ordered brownies or recieved brownies as gifts and say they are the best brownies in all Fairytale land....I Love it!

One letter that made me smile was from a customer that purchased birthday brownies for her Aunt Ann birthday who turned 100 year old. She said that her aunt looks forward to the brownies. That just brings a smile to your face and applauds all around that we are apart of such a glorious day. Happy 100th Birthday Ann, enjoy the fudgy brownie treat.

~Happy Reading~

In March we have the traditional holidays such as, St. Patrick's Day, Palm Sunday and Passover. Well there are some really fun holidays that you might not even know existed!

March is Employee Spirit Month - Sometimes keeping your employee's spirit positive can be a challenge. A great way to boost their mood, spirit and maybe even production is to buy brownies for your office. Imagine the surprise when a delivery arrives and it's for your employee's. They open it and inside is a gourmet chocolate gift from the best brownie company! That would definitely improve my spirit! 

March 15th - 21st is American Chocolate Week - I never knew there was an entire week dedicated to chocolate!

March 19th is National Chocolate Caramel Day - Our gourmet brownies come in 12 different flavors and caramel happens to be one of my favorites. Last year when we introduced our version of a truffle, a dark chocolate enrobed fudge brownie in caramel I was in awe. Celebrating this day will be a very easy and enjoyable thing for me to do! I am going to place my order now! 




March 25th is Pecan Day - Another flavor that our delicious brownies come in is Pecan. Since Pecans have their very own holiday this brownie is pretty special. My Grandfather is a big fan of this brownie so I think I will send brownies, all pecan, to arrive around the 25th. It's a very random holiday but I think it will put a smile on his face! 

Hope everyone has a happy March!

A few months ago, the person who coordinates the Kids Korner at the Old Town Farmers Market (OTFM ) in Scottsdale invited us to put together an activity with our gourmet Belgian chocolate brownies for the kids who come to the market with their parents. After getting rained out in January, we packed up trays of big fudgy brownies, icing and decorations to take to the market last Saturday. Here we are setting up:



It rained for an hour or so while we were there, but we still had a great time with all the kids who braved the rain to make their own brownie creation. Here's one who was a little too young to decorate, but old enough to enjoy a delicious brownie sample:



If you didn't know, before selling mail order brownies David and Eileen sold Fairytale Brownies at local farmers markets just like OTFM, so it is always nice to get back and see what it happening at the wonderful markets around the Phoenix area. We hope to come back to the Kids Korner again sometime!

Our delicious fudge brownies are great alone, but even better when we enrobe them in 60% dark Callebaut Belgian chocolate, an indulgence that we lovingly call Fairytale Truffles! Fairytale Truffles are rich, fudgy Morsels (1.5" x 1.5" mini brownies)  that are enrobed in velvety dark belgian chocolate. Our Truffles gifts contains 9 purely decadent truffles in Caramel, Raspberry Swirl and Walnut flavors nestled in an elegant brown box with a purple or red satin bow.

View our Fairytale Brownie Truffle Gifts here. 

What are people saying about Fairytale Brownies? This review that came to our service department raving about Fairytale Brownies gourmet brownie gifts: "Fairytale Brownies are absolutely delicious, and the prices are very reasonable considering the care in gift wrapping and delivery. I would recommend this product to any chocolate lover. ~ Candace C., Clarksville, AR"

Order brownies and Fairytale Truffle gifts online at brownies.com or by calling our customer service number at 800.324.7982. Thank you for making the world a sweeter place! 

  

Thank you very much to everyone who takes the time to read the Fairytale Brownies blog! We recently had a meeting to discuss how we can make our blog more interesting and draw more readers to it. We have a team of 9 bloggers and I think we came up with some pretty good ideas. After our meeting I got to thinking and realized what better way to find out what you want to read but to ask you! So, what is it you like to hear about? Obviously our gourmet brownies, but what else? Would you like to see more behind the scenes posts from the Fairytale bakery? Would you like more ideas on what to buy brownies for? More brownie recipes? We would love to hear any ideas you might have! 

Looking for a way to create a lasting impression on your clients? Fairytale Brownies offers a fantastic variety of Custom Logo Corporate Gifts! Not only is your logo imprinted on the packaging but they will get delicious gourmet brownies inside!



Make a tasteful impression with new and loyal clients by giving a dozen gourmet brownies. Our best-selling assortment presents 1 each of all 12 rich chocolate flavors in a classic gift box with your company logo printed on the custom band.

This gift is just one of the corporate gifts in our selection. To see more click here. We offer a very simple ordering system, volume discounts that can save you up to 15% on your order and can drop-ship worldwide!

For more information call or email our Corporate Sales Team at 602-489-5123 or corporate@brownies.com.