Are you ready for Christmas? If you need a quick and easy dessert to impress both children and adults alike then this is a definite winner. It's really quick to put together, does not require any fancy equipment and they keep well for a few days so you can easily make this ahead of the big feast. I used my favourite chocolate brownie recipe and baked it in a round tin. Slice it into 8 equal pieces so you get a nice triangle wedge. Push a mini candy cane on the rounded edge to create the tree base. You can decorate these trees as you like. I've used glitter writing icing for ease - you can of course use melted white chocolate or make royal icing. Drizzle the icing in a squiggly line to resemble tinsel and add some festive sprinkles. It really is that easy.
Makes 16 Christmas tree brownies
For the brownies
200g butter,
375g sugar
170g chocolate, roughly chopped
165g flour
80g cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 eggs
To decorate
16 mini candy canes
Glitter writing icing
Sprinkles
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- In a medium sized pan, melt the butter and chocolate.
- Then whisk in the sugar, salt and vanilla extract.
- Continue mixing until you get a smooth mixture then remove from heat and set aside for a few minutes.
- Whisk in the eggs one at a time and then the flour and cocoa powder until you get a fudgy mixture as shown.
- Pour the mixture into a 2 x 18cm round sandwich tins.
- Bake for approximately 25-30 minutes until the top is crisp and the edges are cooked.
- Allow to cool completely before turning out to decorate.
- Cut the brownie into 8 equal pieces.
- Push a mini candy cane into the rounded edge of each brownie slice as shown.
- Decorate with writing icing and sprinkles as shown.
- Enjoy!
I love these. They are so cute, very colourful and very festive. I bet they taste amazing too. Bookmarked! Happy Christmas x
ReplyDeleteThe candy cane base is really inventive - I've not seen that before. Perfect for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea!
ReplyDeleteA fab idea and perfectly festive :- ) x
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