Strawberry & Chocolate Christmas tree recipe.

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Impress your friends and family with this strawberry and chocolate xmas tree.

Strawberry Christmas tree recipe. (cooking time an hour at most)

Ingredients for cone:

2 egg whites

100g caster sugar

50g plain flour

1 teaspoon cocoa powder

60g unsalted butter, melted

Method:

Preheat oven to 200C (400F/Gas 6)

Place egg whites in a bowl and whisk until firm. Add caster sugar, whisking well. Using a sieve, sift flour with cocoa onto the surface of the mixture and whisk. Now add butter and whisk in carefully until mixture is evenly blended.

Line a baking sheet with non-stick baking paper. Place about 4 spoonsful of mixture onto baking sheet and spread well into a thin layer. Bake in the oven for 3-4 minutes. Take out from oven and loosen the layer of mixture from the baking sheet using a palette knife. The thin layer should be flexible. 

Roll it to form a cone shape. Cut the base of the cone with scissors to make it level and able to stand straight (you should end up with a 20cm to 25cm tall cone (9 inch). Leave cone to set and cool down for 20-30 minutes.

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Strawberry Christmas tree assembly:

For this you will need:

The tree cone you just made

A base (cake base or a plate)

1 Kg of strawberries with stalks removed

200g of melted chocolate for the tree and an extra 50g of melted chocolate for fixing the tree to the base.

One slice of apple or star fruit to make the star for the top of the tree (optional)

Method:

First of all fix the cone to the base using the 50g melted chocolate. 

Then dip the large ends (stalk ends) of the biggest strawberries in the 200g melted chocolate and fix them to the bottom of the tree.

Add the next layers the same way, using the medium sized strawberries, saving the small ones for the top. To make the star: take a slice of your fruit and cut it into a ‘star’ shape and place it on top of the tree.