Strawberry Santa Brownie Hats

Now I present to you some cute sweet snacks. Well, I have always learnt that we first ate food from our eyes. The food should be appealing to our eyes, then only we proceed to taste it. So, this is an attempt to make brownies look pretty. I know, when it comes to brownie, the tast is enough. It is chocolate, after all. But combine it with strawberries and voila, you have a new serving snack which would be gone in few minutes.

Ingredients:

For brownie:

Curd – 1 cup

Sugar -3/4^th cup

Baking powder – 1 ½ tsp

Baking Soda – ½ tsp

Flour – 1 cup (maida)

Cocoa Powder – ½ cup

Vegetable Oil – ½ cup

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Chopped walnuts (optional) – ½ cup

For strawberry topping with icing:

10-15 strawberries

2 tbsp cream cheese

2 tsp icing sugar

Method:

1. Mix the curd and sugar till the sugar dissolves.
2. Add baking powder and soda. Mix and leave to rise for 10 minutes.
3. Sieve the dry ingredients like flour, cocoa powder and keep it aside.
4. Add the oil and vanilla essence to the curd mixture and beat well.
5. Add the walnuts and flour mixture, and fold well.
6. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees.
7. Grease a baking tray and pour the mixture into it and bake for 20-25 minutes.
8. Check if it is done by poking the centre with a fork. If not done, then keep for another 5 minutes.
9. Let the cake cool.
10. Now, cut the cakes with a circular tin in small circular shapes, like in the picture shown.

Method for the icing:

1. Mix cream cheese and icing sugar till it thickens a bit.
2. Fill this mixture in a piping bag. If you do not have a piping bag, put it in a thick plastic bag and cut the tip. It would make a good enough piping bag.
3. Now, put this icing on the brownie as shown in the picture.
4. Cut the top of the strawberries and place a strawberry on top of each brownie.
5. Put little icing on top of the strawberry.
6. Ready to serve “Strawberry Santa Brownie Hats”