Your Family - April 2017

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carrot patches
Makes 6 Takes 1 hr + cooling

FOR THE BROWNIE
250g soft butter
500ml sugar
3 eggs
15ml vanilla essence
250ml cake flour
250ml cocoa powder
pinch salt

FOR THE CHOCOLATE SOIL
50g soft butter
80ml cocoa powder
375ml icing sugar
60ml milk
5ml vanilla essence
pinch salt

FOR THE CARROT PATCHES
12 thick vanilla wafers
18 fondant carrots

variation

Cut the brownies into 20 squares and serve on their own (without the

icing, wafers or carrots).

Add 250ml chocolate chips or chopped pecan nuts to the brownie batter.

Use cooled coffee in the icing instead of milk.

1 For the brownies, preheat oven

to 180°C. Line a 19cm x 25cm

rectangular tin with baking

paper. Beat butter and sugar for

3 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla

for 2 minutes.

2 Stir in flour, cocoa and salt until just

combined. Pour batter into prepared

pan, smoothing the top.

3 Bake for about 35 minutes or until

the centre of the brownie no longer

wobbles and is just set to the touch

(the brownies will continue to bake

a little out of the oven). Cool.

4 For the chocolate soil, beat all the

ingredients for about 3 minutes or

until combined.

5 For the carrot patches, cut the wafers

in half (through the icing). Cut the sides

off the brownies and cut the inside into

6 x 6cm squares. Use some of the icing

to ‘glue’ four wafers around the sides of

each brownie.

6 Spoon remaining icing into a piping bag

fitted with a star nozzle. Pipe on top of

the brownies. Insert 3 carrots into each.

Buy fondant

carrots

from baking

stores.