This document provides instructions for making Christmas tree brownies. The brownies are baked in a square tin and then decorated with green icing to resemble a Christmas tree. Key steps include melting butter and chocolate, mixing in sugar and eggs, then flour. The batter is poured into a tin and baked for 35-40 minutes. Once cooled, the brownies are iced with a buttercream icing tinted green. Decorations like silver balls can be added and chocolate fingers are used to make trunks, transforming the brownies into Christmas tree shapes.
This document provides instructions for making Christmas tree brownies. The brownies are baked in a square tin and then decorated with green icing to resemble a Christmas tree. Key steps include melting butter and chocolate, mixing in sugar and eggs, then flour. The batter is poured into a tin and baked for 35-40 minutes. Once cooled, the brownies are iced with a buttercream icing tinted green. Decorations like silver balls can be added and chocolate fingers are used to make trunks, transforming the brownies into Christmas tree shapes.
This document provides instructions for making Christmas tree brownies. The brownies are baked in a square tin and then decorated with green icing to resemble a Christmas tree. Key steps include melting butter and chocolate, mixing in sugar and eggs, then flour. The batter is poured into a tin and baked for 35-40 minutes. Once cooled, the brownies are iced with a buttercream icing tinted green. Decorations like silver balls can be added and chocolate fingers are used to make trunks, transforming the brownies into Christmas tree shapes.
tree brownies Christmas tree brownies Time: 2-3 hours Method
1 Preheat the oven to 170OC or gas
Serves: 16-20 brownies mark 3. Line a 20cm square tin with parchment and grease the sides. Ingredients 2 Melt the butter and chocolate in a small non-stick saucepan over a low heat.
• 200g plain chocolate 3 Once the butter and chocolate is fully
melted, pour into a mixing bowl and stir • 175g unsalted butter in the sugar until fully combined.
• 130g plain flour 4 Add the flour to the mixture and
then one egg at a time and stir until • 300g caster sugar combined. • 3 eggs 5 If you’re adding any chopped nuts, dried fruit or chocolate chunks do this • Chocolate fingers now and stir together. (for the tree trunk) 6 Pour the batter into the tin and bake • Optional: 50g nuts or in the oven for 35-40 minutes until a knife comes out clean when you poke chocolate chips into the top. 7 Leave the brownies in the tin until For the icing completely cool then turn out onto a chopping board and cut into triangles. • 200g icing sugar 8 To make the icing, beat together soft butter and icing sugar. When it’s • 100g softened butter smooth add in the green colouring, • Splash of milk vanilla, and a splash of milk.
• ½ tsp vanilla extract 9 Either cover the brownies in a smooth
layer of icing and use the end of a • Green food dye teaspoon to trace lines in the icing going across the ‘tree’, or if you prefer (or buy green ready made use a piping bag to pipe on a zig zag icing if you’re in a rush) line of icing on the brownies. • Optional: Silver balls, 10 When the icing is almost set, add on any extra decorations – we like silver sprinkles, edible glitter or balls or cranberries. anything else you fancy Finish the brownies by poking the 11 chocolate finger into the bottom to make a trunk.