Little Foodies: Brownie Christmas Trees

The Foodies' KitchenNovember 16, 2016

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Today, we bring you a holiday recipe that you can make with the kids at home. It’s the season for many gatherings with family and friends, and these Brownie Christmas Trees are perfect to include in your dessert table, they are homemade by the little ones at home. Can you imagine their happiness and pride when serving at a party something they made?

To start, we need brownies. You can bake your favorite recipe, or bake them from a box.The important thing is that you have a great time together with your kids, and something that’s not too elaborate. You can bake the brownies one day, and decorate them on the next. When you’re baking the brownies, make sure to use an 8×8-inch baking pan, and the trick to get them out of the pan without a glitch is to line the pan with either aluminum foil or parchment paper, and then grease it (the base and sides) with a bit of butter and dust with unsweetened cocoa. We’re using cocoa instead of flour since it’s a chocolate batter, that way when you pull them out they don’t have white dust all around.

For additional holiday cheer, you can add a few drops of peppermint extract to flavor the icing, but it’s completely optional. The decoration is completely free to your child’s desire. Make sure you have plenty of small chocolate candies and multi colored sprinkles to let their imaginations fly!

We found great items for you at Almacenes Siman: a Pedrini Decorating Pen, (the wide brown pen you see in the picture above). Its amazing, perfect for the kids to use it without getting frosting all over and much more cleaner than a piping bag. We also found a reversible wooden cutting board (the back is plastic) so the kids can use it to put the little trees together. We also fell in love with a set of red poinsettia table mats, that you can see in all of the pictures. It really can dress up your table for the Holidays!

We hope you can enjoy this cooking activity at home. They not only look cute, but they taste amazing too!

Helga & Kitty

Brownie Christmas Trees

Recipe adapted from One Little Project
Makes: 15 Christmas Trees

Ingredients:
1 box Brownie Mix or your favorite recipe baked in a 8×8-in pan
unsweetened cocoa and butter to grease the baking pan
1 tub white vanilla icing (not cream cheese frosting)
green food coloring
peppermint extract (optional)
assorted sprinkles
multicolored chocolate candies, separating 15 yellow candies
15 wooden sticks

Instructions:

Line an 8″x8″ baking pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper. Butter and dust cocoa (instead of flour). Prepare and bake the brownies as directed. Let the brownies cool completely.
Remove the brownies from the pan, and cut into triangles but first cutting the brownies in three rows, then cut in alternating diagonals.
Insert wooden sticks into the flat bottom of the brownie triangles carefully.
Spoon out approximately half of the tub of icing into a bowl.
Add in the green food coloring and peppermint extract, if using, and mix until you have a bright green color.
Spoon the green icing into a Pedrini Decorating Pen or a piping bag fitted with a small round tip, or small star tip (which is easier for little hands to squeeze the icing out of).
Starting at the top of the brownie triangles, gently squeeze out the icing: a dot on the top of the tree and three horizontal lines until you reach the bottom.
Place a yellow chocolate candy on top, then add your favorite sprinkles and chocolate candies to decorate your Christmas tree.

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