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Malted Chocolate Brownies

stacked upmenorah 4 The first night of Chanukah is this week, on Tuesday night.  Flushed with the success of my Beehive challahs at Rosh Hashanah, I. wanted to create something special for Chanukah. A crazy thought floated into my head. What about building a menorah out of brownies? I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I wasn’t really sure how to go about creating it. I wasn’t one of those kids that played with building blocks, Leggo or puzzles. Barbie was more my thing.

I started with my favourite brownie recipe from Chef Michael Smith. I decided to switch out the cocoa powder with malted milk powder and added in some chopped malted milk balls for extra crunch. ingredientssiftingready to bakeI chilled the brownies until firm and then I cut out an oval for the base. Using a small round cookie cutter I cut out little circles for the candle holders. I did a slightly larger circle for the shamash (helper) candle. ready to assembleI finally got a chance to use my food stylist tweezers! I mixed up some blue royal icing and glued on some edible blue pearls.  using tweezers like a real food stylistmenorah baseTo hold the candles I glued each one to a malted milk ball. I figured out that I needed to trim the bottom and top of the balls flat before gluing with royal icing.candles-2Even if you decide not to make a menorah, these malted chocolate brownies would make a delicious addition to your Chanukah party.cutting browniesdusting with cocoa powder

 

Click here to print recipe for Malted Chocolate Brownies.

 

with milk