Bake brownie chocolate brownie in round cake tins, to cut them into triangles and with ease and without unnecessary Scraps turn into charming Christmas trees. Trunks the trees will be from pieces of caramel canes, and the trees themselves filled with the rich chocolate flavor that gives them cocoa powder and dark chocolate granules, and painted green butter cream. Christmas trees can be decorated with sweets or sprinkled decorative sugar. Great idea for New Year or рождественского чаепития. 
Time: 2 час. 10 min. Difficulty: easy Quantity: 16pcs. The recipes use dimensional capacity: 1 cup (tbsp.) – 240 ml. 3/4 cup (st.) – 180 ml 1/2 cup (tbsp.) – 120 ml. 1/3 cup (st.) – 80 ml. 1/4 cups (st.) – 60 ml. 1 tablespoon (tbsp.) – 15 ml. 1 teahouse spoon (tsp) – 5 ml.
Ingredients for the recipe:
Brownie
- 1 tbsp. (220 gr.) Butter, melted and cooled + optional for greasing molds
- 1.5 tbsp. Sahara
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 large eggs
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 0.5 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp fine salt
- 0.5 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 Art. dark chocolate granules
- 16 pieces of caramel canes 4 cm long.
- White and golden decorative sugar and small chocolate Non-coated sweets, e.g. Sno-Caps, for decoration
American oil cream
- 1 tbsp. powdered sugar
- 55 gr. (4 tbsp.) Unsalted butter, room temperature
- A pinch of fine salt
- 0.5 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 / 4-0.5 Art. l whole milk
- 24 drops of green food coloring
- 1 drop of red food coloring
- Special equipment: pastry bag or ziplock plastic bag
Recipes with similar ingredients: butter, sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, premium flour, cocoa, dark chocolate, candy sticks, icing sugar, milk
Recipe preparation:
- Cook the brownies: Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Grease butter the bottom and walls of two round cake tins 20 cm in diameter. Cut two circles from parchment paper. 20 cm in diameter and cover them with the bottom of the molds.
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix the butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs. In another bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa powder, salt and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to moist and mix until fully mixed. Mix 1 tbsp. standard size chocolate granules and pour the dough into prepared forms, smoothing its surface. Bake until no crust begins to form at the edges, the edges should extend from the walls of the mold, and a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake should come out clean, 35-40 minutes.
- Cool the brownies in the molds on the wire rack completely for about 1 hour. Cut each circle into 8 equal triangles. WITH using a pastry spatula or spatula for cake triangles out of shape.
- Prepare American Butter Cream: In a Bowl stationary mixer with a nozzle spatula mix powdered sugar, butter and salt (or in a large bowl if using hand mixer). Beat at low speed to mix everything. Add vanilla, increase speed to medium and mix to homogeneous consistency. If desired, dilute the cream with milk. Add 24 drops of green food coloring and 1 drop of red food coloring and mix at medium speed for 1 minutes. Set aside.
- To assemble: The tip of a small knife or wooden skewer a small hole along the bottom edge of each a piece of brownie. Insert a “caramel” barrel into each hole sticks.
- Fill the pastry bag with butter cream and cut 0.5 cm. from the corner. In a zigzag motion, deposit the cream from the base to the top of every tree. Decorate trees with decorative sugar and chocolate coated with small sweets.
