Brownie fir trees

Name: Brownie fir trees
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 45
Ingredients: 600 g Dark chocolate; 500 g Butter; 8 Eggs (size M); 500 g demerara sugar; 1 pinch Salt; 400 g Flour; 100 g Cocoa powder; 2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder; 2 TEASPOONS Gingerbread spice; 300 g Walnut kernels; 7-10 Tbsp Candy canes as trunk; 150 g Icing sugar; 1/2 TEASPOON green food paste; 1-2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 7-10 Tbsp perle di zucchero e mini lenticchie di cioccolato; 1 Disposable piping bag

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry

DIFFICULTY
very easy

RATING

COOK TIME
60 mins

TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 45

600 g Dark chocolate
500 g Butter
8 Eggs (size M)
500 g demerara sugar
1 pinch Salt
400 g Flour
100 g Cocoa powder
2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder
2 TEASPOONS Gingerbread spice
300 g Walnut kernels
7-10 Tbsp Candy canes as trunk
150 g Icing sugar
1/2 TEASPOON green food paste
1-2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
7-10 Tbsp perle di zucchero e mini lenticchie di cioccolato
1 Disposable piping bag

Directions

1
Chopping chocolate. Cut butter into pieces. Melt both in a wide pot at low heat.
2
Beat the eggs, sugar and salt with the whisk of the hand mixer in a bowl for 3-4 minutes until creamy. Remove the liquid chocolate-butter mixture from the heat and immediately stir into the egg-sugar mixture.
3
Mix flour, baking powder, cocoa and gingerbread spice and fold into the mixture quickly. Chop the walnuts and fold in as well.
4
Grease the fat pan of the oven (approx. 33 x 39 cm). Add the dough and bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for 20-25 minutes. Take out the cake and let it cool down.
5
Cut the cake lengthwise into 5 strips. Cut each strip into 9 isosceles triangles (6 x 8 x 8 cm) (nibble the leftovers.) Cut candy canes into pieces of approx. 5 cm and stick them as a trunk into each triangle.
6
Mix icing sugar with lemon juice and food paste to a firm glaze. Pour the icing into a piping bag with a fine piping nozzle and decorate the fir trees with it. Place sugar pearls and chocolate lentils on top.