Ingredients

• 200g - Butter
• 200g - Icing sugar
• 5 - Light beaten eggs
• 350g - Melted chocolate
• 400g - Broken walnuts
• 80g - Flour
• For Marzipan:
• 225g - Sugar
• 125g - Ground almond
• 40g - Icing sugar
• A pinch of cream of tarter
• 1 - Egg white
• 5 tbsp - Water
• Colour as required

How to Make American Walnut Brownies

• For Marzipan:
• Put the sugar and the water in a heavy based saucepan and cook on a low heat until the sugar has dissolved.
• Add cream of tarter and bring to a boil until the sugar reaches 116 degrees C (240 degrees F) - soft ball stage.
• Remove from the heat and mix until it turns cloudy, then add ground almonds and vanilla extract.
• Add the egg white to the pan and return to a low heat and stir for a couple of minutes until smooth.
• Place the icing sugar on to a marble surface and pour over the mixture.
• Work in the icing sugar with a palate knife.
• Cover the mixture with plastic wrap until cooled.
• Roll out the marzipan in different colours and put into the desired shape moulds.
• For Brownie:
• Preheat the oven at 180 degrees C.
• Line a mould of 8 inch with a silver foil and place in a baking tray.
• Cream butter and sugar together with the help of the paddle or with hands till it is smooth and white in colour.
• Start adding eggs slowly and keep mixing
• Add the melted chocolate and mix it.
• Finally add the flour, walnuts and fold the mixture gently and pour the mixture to the lined mould.
• Bake it for 25 minutes at 180 degrees C.
• Cool on the cooling rack.
• For Garnishing:
• Spread some melted chocolate on a marble table and let it set.
• Take a steel scrapper and scrape the chocolate and put on the top of the brownie.
• Put one or two marzipan fruits to give colour to the dessert.