BROWNIE WITH PUMPKIN PARFAIT

This recipe I saw in the December edition of one of the food magazines here in Turkey.

The recipe seems not to be so difficult. 

I found the end result somehow too sweet so you may consider adding less sugar to the brownie (like 2 glasses instead of 3.5!) 

Ingredients (serves 8):

For the brownie:

2 eggs

1 glass of sugar

Half a glass of yoghurt

Half a glass of oil

One glass of flour

4 spoons of cacao powder

1 bag of baking powder

50 grams of walnuts, chopped fine

walnuts chopped fine

For the pumpkin parfait:

800 grams of pumpkin, cleaned and cubed

pumpkin, cleaned and in the process of being cubed

3.5 glasses of sugar

1 glass of water

8 leaves of gelatin

For decoration: powder sugar

Method

A)   For the brownie

1. Heat the oven at 200 degrees.
2. Blend the eggs and the sugar with the mixer.
3. Add the yoghurt and the oil and continue mixing.
4. Add the flour, cacao and baking powder and continue mixing
5. Add the walnuts and continue mixing.
6. Spread the mixture into a square cake mould that you have oiled.
7. Bake the brownie in the oven for about 20 – 25 degrees.

step A2

Step A4

step A6

B)      For the pumpkin parfait

1. Take the pumpkin to a pot. Add the water and the sugar and close the lid.
2. Cook on medium fire until the pumpkin gets soft.
3. When the pumpkin is soft, make a puree from it by using the blender
4. Melt the gelatin in small amount of cold water. Add to the pumpkin mixture.

Step B1

Step B3

C)      Brownie with pumpkin parfait

1. Cut the brownie into two layers horizontally.
2. Put one of the layers into the square cake mould.
3. Spread the lukewarm pumpkin parfait on the brownie layer.
4. Put the other layer of the brownie on the parfait.
5. Let it rest in the refrigerator for an hour.

Step C1