Chocolate Brownie Christmas Trees

With so much festive food in the stores ready for Christmas it's a pretty good time to indulge; you can always think about the calories in the New Year!

The Mini Mes have their end of term parties this week before they break up for the holiday so we have been making some treats of our own too. I'd normally pop to the shop and purchase some fruit, crisps and a few other nibbles for all of the children at school quickly but thanks to shopping online with PayPal this year I seem to be really organised. I have a lot more spare time to do some baking, something that I really enjoy and the Mini Mes do too, snuggle up to watch some Christmas movies and do some Christmas crafts. 

We used my usual triple chocolate brownie recipe for these as it is a favourite of mine that never fails. They are always so moist and so tasty. You will probably be thinking about your second helping before you have even finished your first (unless that's just me being greedy)! 

Ingredients

100g plain/dark chocolate

180g butter

270g caster sugar

3 medium eggs

40g cocoa

80g plain flour

60g white chocolate

60g milk chocolate

To decorate

Icing pens

Candy canes

 Sugar decorations

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and line a 12" by 9" baking tray
• Melt the plain/dark chocolate with the butter in a pan on a low heat then set to one side to cool
• Mix together the eggs and sugar for several minutes in a bowl
• Add the butter and chocolate mixture to the sugar and eggs and combine
• Mix in the cocoa and flour
• Cut up the white and milk chocolate into small pieces and fold through evenly
• Pour the mixture into the lined baking tray and cook for approx 30 minutes until crisp on top
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool before transferring to a chopping board

• Using a template or tree shaped cutter, cut out approx 10 brownie trees
• Cut small pieces of candy canes (approx an inch in length) and insert into the bottom of each brownie in a central position
• Use the icing pens to create a star on the top of each and a tinsel effect before adding on the sugar decorations to represent twinkling lights
• Scoff!

These would make a lovely gift due to the pretty presentation yet they are low cost to create which is always a bonus at an already expensive time of year. You could easily give these as a foodie pressie to a teacher or make some for your neighbours. Placed in a pretty box with some tissue paper all wrapped up with a ribbon would look great. The children will enjoy decorating them too!

Making these was certainly a magical little moment for us.

Have you made any nice festive food recently?

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