Christmas Brownies

Ingredients

• 90 g butter
• 330 g sugar
• 70 g cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• 190 g flour
• 0.75 tsp baking powder
• 3 tsp vanilla sugar
• 0.25 tsp Salt
• 100 g chopped pecans or walnuts
• 30 g chopped dark chocolate
• cocoa powder
• powdered sugar

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 160°C (fan) and line a baking tray with parchment paper.

2. 2.

   Melt the butter over low heat, then transfer it to a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar and cocoa. Gradually whisk in the eggs and 120 ml water.

3. 3.

   Sift together the flour, baking powder, vanilla sugar, and salt; add this to the butter mixture and mix until smooth. Fold in the nuts and chocolate.

4. 4.

   Spread the batter evenly about 1 cm thick onto the tray and bake for 15–20 minutes. Cut the warm cake into cubes while still hot.

5. 5.

   Cut a star-shaped stencil from cardboard. Dust each cube with cocoa, then place the stencil over it and dust again with powdered sugar.