Brownie Christmas trees | Recipe

Highlight for your (pre-)Christmas coffee party or tea time

Text:
Katharina Kuhlmann

Photography:
© Elisa Brunke

18 December 2024

If you want to give your guests a very special treat for their taste buds and eyes during the Advent and Christmas season, our brownie Christmas trees are the perfect choice. Both the dough and the coating are extra chocolaty thanks to Dark Cooking Chocoate. To decorate this vegan recipe, we recommend the White Vanilla bar from our vegan sister brand iChoc.

Ingredients

For 8 trees


For the dough:

100 g

VIVANI Dark Cooking Chocolate

100 g

white spelt flour

125 g

coconut blossom sugar

15 g

VIVANI Fine Cocoa Powder

1 tsp

gingerbread spice

1 pinch

baking powder

1 pinch

salt

40 g

apple puree

60 ml

rapeseed oil

90 ml

soya milk

For the decoration:

150 g

VIVANI Dark Cooking Chocolate

50 g

white vegan chocolate, e.g. iChoc White Vanilla

sugar pearls or stars, sprinkles etc. (as desired)


making

baking time
30 minutes

level of difficulty
medium

01

Preheat the oven to 180 °C (top and bottom heat). Grease a baking frame or a square baking tin (approx. 18x12 cm) or line with baking paper.

02

Melt the chocolate carefully and slowly in a bain-marie.

03

Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, gingerbread spice, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Add the apple puree, oil and soya drink to the centre and mix everything together. Finally, stir in the melted chocolate thoroughly.

04

Spread the batter into the tin and bake for approx. 30 minutes. Leave to cool completely on a rack. Then carefully cut into 8 acute triangles with a sharp knife (see tip).

05

Melt the Dark Cooking Chocolate for the decoration in a bain-marie. Coat the brownie trees completely with it and leave to dry.

06

Finally, melt the white chocolate in a bain-marie and decorate the chocolate-coated trees with fine lines. Decorate with sprinkles etc. as desired and leave to set.


TIP: For uniform Christmas trees with a mould measuring 18 cm x 12 cm, proceed as follows: Make a total of 4 markings on the long side, each 4.5 cm apart. Then make a mark in the centre of each of these 4.5 cm wide pieces on the opposite side. Cut the cake along these points so that you have seven whole triangles and two half triangles. Put the two half triangles together with a little liquid chocolate to make the eighth triangle.

 

Click here for the iChoc White Vanilla chocolate

 

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Dark Cooking Chocolate

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Fine cocoa powder

Santo Domingo | fat-reduced cocoa powder | Biodynamic | vegan

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The Fine Cocoa Powder from VIVANI Organic Chocolate is fat-reduced, vegan and certified biodynamic.

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