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DECEMBER
RECIPES
RUDOLPH BROWNIES
Ingredients:
•
6 – 8 red smarties or red
M&M’s
•
12 – 16 sugar eyes – I got
these from Amazon. If you
don’t want to buy them
specially you could just make
your own – a small circle for
the white part with a small
dark chocolate dot in the
middle for the pupil.
•
12 – 16 pretzels for the
antlers. I used Schar gluten
free pretzels which are small,
but the perfect size for this
recipe.
For the Brownie batter
•
200g self-raising flour (to
make gluten free simply use
Doves farm GF self-raising
flour)
•
200g caster sugar
•
150g dark chocolate
•
100g unsalted butter or
dairy free equivalent
•
2 eggs
•
50g cocoa powder
•
1 square dark chocolate (for
the “glue” for the antlers and
faces)
By Ella Easton
@stillglutenfree
These are so cute! I love baking for
Christmas gifts. Only problem with
these are they are best eaten sooner
rather than later, so if you’re someone
who likes to get your Christmas
presents all sorted before December
even begins, then save this recipe to
make with the kids in the holidays.
And if you think I’m mad suggesting
you might have time to bake during
the busy festive season, save the
recipe and make them at any time of
the year without the antlers, and little
faces!
Makes 6 – 8 ( 6 perfect rectangles,
after trimming off the edge pieces –
which obviously you can eat up) or 8
more rough looking rectangles
1. Preheat oven to 180c
2. Break the chocolate up into
squares and place in a heatproof
bowl. Add the butter and melt
over a saucepan filled with water
over a medium heat.
3. Place the flour, sugar and cocoa
into a bowl and mix well until it’s
all combined.
4. Beat the eggs into the dry
ingredients, and then mix in the
melted chocolate and butter.
5. Line a small baking dish (I used
a Pyrex dish 20cm x 15cm so
you want something roughly the
same) and pour the brownie mix
into the dish.
6. Bake for approx. 35 mins. (This
will give them that fudgy centre
– cook for 5 mins longer if you
want it more cakey).
7. Once baked, leave to one side
to cool (you can place in the
fridge to speed things up and
stop them cooking further.) It
will have risen in the oven and
then will collapse – but that
helps give it the slightly cracked
top that is so characteristic of
brownies.
8. Once cool, cut into neat
rectangles.
9. Melt the single square of dark
chocolate using the same
method as above (or in a
microwave, if you have one).
10. (the other alternative is to use
icing sugar – I would suggest
adding a little cocoa powder to
the icing sugar just so it’s the
same colour as the brownies)
11. Whilst the chocolate is melting
gently place the antlers, eyes &
noses on the brownies just to
work out where you want them
to go.
12. Place small dots of the
melted dark chocolate at the
appropriate places.
13. Then simply stick the antlers,
noses and eyes on to the little
dots of dark chocolate and leave
to set.
14. So cute and so delicious!
** To make this recipe vegan, simply use Flora
block in place of butter, and for the eggs place
2 tablespoons of ground flax seeds in a bowl
with 2 tablespoons of water to make “flax
eggs”. I haven’t tried this version myself, but
I’m assured it works well!
Happy, happy Christmas to you all,
and thank you for cooking with me
through 2024!