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2011 Cooking Club Week 3: Raspberry and Pecan Blondies
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24-01-2011 11:41am#1For anybody who doesn't know, blondies are just a white chocolate version of brownies, they're much lighter to each and not as filling. I like to put a bit of a twist to mine and add some pecans and raspberries. It's a combination that I think works really well, and they never last too long. It's a pretty simple recipe too.
Ingredients
- 150g White Chocolate
- 125g Unsalted Butter
- 150g Caster Sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1.5 tsps Vanilla Essence
- 200g Plain Flour
- A Pinch of Salt
- 120g Shelled Pecan nuts
- Raspberries (enough to cover the top)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°C
- Melt the chocolate and butter in a bowl over a pot of simmering water
- Remove from the heat and add the sugar. Mix until all the ingredients are incorporated
- Add the eggs and vanilla extract. (Make sure you stir briskly, so the eggs don’t scramble!)
- Sift in the flour and mix.
- Add the salt and pecan nuts and mix until evenly dispersed.
- Pour the mixture into a baking tray, lined with greaseproof paper.
- Scatter the raspberries over the top of the batter. (It’s doesn’t really matter too much how much you use, I usually just judge by eye how much I think is enough)
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 35-40 minutes, or until golden brown.
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Oh, a friend of mine has a recipe similar to this which I was going to use on here. :pac: Will definitely give your version a shot.
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This is the problem - everyone's on a bloody diet these days. Then they blame it on the baker when they succumb to temptation! I can't eat them all myself!
That's exactly why I don't bake half as often as I'd like to - people make such a fuss about getting fat! I only want one or two of a batch, other people have to eat the rest!
That's one reason why I really miss my ex-boyfriend - he'd happily scoff everything I baked and never complain about being on a diet
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That's exactly why I don't bake half as often as I'd like to - people make such a fuss about getting fat! I only want one or two of a batch, other people have to eat the rest!
That's one reason why I really miss my ex-boyfriend - he'd happily scoff everything I baked and never complain about being on a diet
Oh my boyfriend will eat everything too, that's why he complains. Bloody cyclists...worse than women
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I used frozen berries. The end result was that the batter still looks a bit raw around the berries. It tastes great, and maybe I should have just left them in for another 5 minutes, but I got really impatient. But in my experience, mushiness around berries can be a common problem with frozen ones, and isn't anything to worry about. 0
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Oooh haven't made Blondies in ages, mostly because the last time i made a batch they disappeared so quickly i didn't get a sniff of them myself
Nice recipe, i've never made them with melted chocolate, i would usually throw in choclate chips as part of the mix, does it change the texture much?
Also, if pecans aren't to your taste i can reccomend macadamia nuts-the result is NYOM!!!0 -
Yummy! I was afraid I'd done something wrong at first because the chocolate and butter mixture looked awful but it turned out ok in the end. I used frozen raspberries too because I couldn't get fresh and it was delish. I've had 3 and have sent the rest off with my dad to bring into the staff room so at least I won't have to eat any more! Very tasty 0 -
I can't believe I have never noticed The Cooking Club until now it's terrible :eek::eek: I am totally signing up next year
I hope you guys don't mind in me taking part in the cooking/baking
These were so easy to make I was quite happy with my results they look good if I do say so myself, my only negative was I wish my raspberry's could have been fresher.
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I too had a moment of fright when the chocolate and butter mix seemed to split. The sugar did nothing to help, but the eggs went in and sorted the whole lot out. Phew.
I used walnuts and blueberries, which were lovely and juicy when you bit into them 0 -
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Heck with that. Use the Green&Blacks white chocolate instead. Far, far, far better.I got some "luxury white chocolate" in the baking section of Tesco. I've used this stuff before and it's reasonably good. Better than the Wunderbar chocolate-flavour stuff anyway, yuk.
Hard not to eat it out of hand though 0 -
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