Spooky Gravestone Brownies
With a ‘secret’ ingredient of blood red beetroot these spooktacular chocolate creations make a terribly tasty Halloween treat – and are practically one of your five a day!
Recipes
Posted 20 October 2020
Prep: 1 hour (including cooking)
easy
Serves:
9
Ingredients
For the brownies
- 140g butter
- 3 eggs
- 300g caster sugar
- 70g plain flour
- 5g baking powder
- 65g cocoa powder
- 5ml vanilla essence
- 100g raw beetroot
- 50g icing sugar
- 50ml silver food spray
Method
Preparation
- Line the bottom of an applicable baking tin with parchment paper
- Beat the sugar and butter until light and fluffy
- Whisk your eggs and then slowly add them along with vanilla essence making sure the mixture doesn't split
- Sieve the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and fold into the mixture
- Peel and grate the beetroot and add to the mixture folding gently
- Spread the mixture into your lined tin
- Bake at 180c for approx. 25-35 minutes
- Cool and chill to fridge temperature, then portion into 9 equal rectangles to resemble gravestones
- Spray with the silver food spray and allow to dry
- Make up the icing sugar with just enough water to enable piping then to write R.I.P on each spooky gravestone or create your own design - go batty with cats, pumpkins or skeletons!
