The brownie can be covered with the glaze, and may contain chocolate chips or nuts and can be flavored in various flavors, such as vanilla or mint. They are often served with hot milk or cream and sometimes with whipped cream, especially in restaurants. They are also popular as a snack or as a snack, especially accompanied by a cup of coffee.
The main ingredients are flour, sugar, chocolate usually dark, or in combination with milk chocolate and white chocolate, butter, eggs and optionally hazelnuts. In the original recipe is not meant for yeast. However, there are many different recipes for brownies and simple versions often serve as an introduction to the kitchen. There is a white version of the brownie, called blondie prepared without cocoa, often with white chocolate in its place.
The name brownie appeared for the first time in the Boston Cooking School Cookbook, in 1896, where they are described as small cakes cooked with molasses. The origin of the cake is thought to be American, and the name derives from the dark color.
There are several versions about the origin of the dessert, one that tells of a careless cook that forgot to put the yeast in the chocolate cake that was preparing while another would like to identify the origin of the brownie Palmer House Hotel in Chicago during the World's Columbian Exposition of 1892. Finally, there are those who maintain that Bertha Palmer requested a dessert that does not get dirty hands to be able to put in the boxes room.
Christmas brownies are the sweetest, funniest and most Christmassy recipe you can make in December. Originally from the United States, brownies usually appear in the form of soft chocolate squares, very simple to prepare. We present them to you in a Christmassy way, decorated with a frothy royal icing and colored confetti. They can also be decorated with colored sugars or softened Nutella!
Get help from the children in the preparation: choose molds that recall the Christmas theme and give vent to your creativity! The peculiarity of brownies is the dough, which is moist and spongy due to the presence of butter and melted chocolate. They are also easy to make in the gluten-free version: just replace the 00 flour with the same amount of rice flour or potato starch.
Perfect during the holidays, Christmas brownies can also be enjoyed plain, without further decorations: success is equally guaranteed. Christmas Brownies a very easy and super tested recipe to prepare brownies at home and make them Christmassy in a few steps and with little effort making a great impression on your family.
Christmas brownies are prepared with dark chocolate, eggs, sugar, butter and flour and are really delicious then they are decorated with a tuft of fresh whipped cream and a strawberry to simulate Santa Claus's hat and you will feel how good they are, you can't imagine it.
You can also have your children decorate the Christmas Brownies, they will have a lot of fun and you can leave them on Christmas night to Santa Claus and his reindeer who will make a surely appreciated snack. So are you ready to prepare Christmas brownies with me? Let's start immediately with the ingredients and the recipe and then let me know if you have prepared them.
Brownies cannot be missing from your Christmas table, especially since preparing them requires little time and you can also do it with children who will have a lot of fun making these chocolate stars. At the end, you just need to sprinkle your Christmas star brownies with icing sugar and they will be ready to make your Christmas even more festive and sweet !
Christmas brownies can be stored in the fridge for 1 day, while undecorated (without cream and strawberries) even 4 or 5 days outside the fridge.
Prep Time: 50 mins ♥ Cook Time: 20 mins ♥ Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins ♥ Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients:
1 cup melted butter
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 cup cocoa powder
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp sour curds
1 tbsp walnuts
Salt to taste
Recipe Method
Sift together the flour and cocoa powder using a sieve. Keep aside.
Preheat oven to 180 C. Grease a square or round shallow microwave safe pan using butter.
Combine the curds, sugar, butter and vanilla. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the cocoa; beat well until well blended. Finally, add the flour, walnuts, baking powder and salt; beat well.
Pour the batter into the greased and lined microwave safe pan , spread it evenly using a spoon and bake for 35 minutes or until brownies begin to pull away from the pan sides.
Serve hot.
