sábado, 4 de janeiro de 2014

My first recipe post... Chocolate chip hazelnut blondies!

Made these this morning and they are almost gone... Must mean they are REALLY good!


All you're going to need is: self-raising flour, room temperature butter, 2 eggs, brown sugar, sweetener, vanilla extract, chocolate chips and hazelnuts, and you only need to use one bowl.
They take about 10 minutes to prepare and bake for 20/25 so they are super fast to bake and totally worth it, they are delicious and moist and yummy.


So let's cut to the chase, here's the recipe:

Ingredients:
  • 250g / about 2 cups self-raising flour
  • 2 large eggs (room temperature)
  • 100g / a little under 1/2 of a cup room temperature butter
  • 100g / a little under 1/2 of a cup light brown sugar
  • 50g / 1/4 of a cup sweetener of choice (I used Stevia powder)-
  • 20ml / 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 5 tablespoons (or 70g) chocolate chips (I used Hershey's semi-sweet)
  • 50g / about 3/4 of a cup hazelnuts
  • Pinch of salt



Directions:
  1. First pre-heat your oven to 180ºC / 350ºF and prepare a rectangular baking tray;
  2. In a stand mixer turned on high speed mix your sugars with your butter until it's all light and fluffy;
  3. Turn the speed to the lowest possible and mix in vanilla extract followed by the eggs one at a time;
  4. Sift together flour and salt and then add into the mix slowly so it doesn't lump;
  5. Turn off the mixer and with the aid of a spatula or spoon incorporate chocolate chips and roughly chopped hazelnuts (or whole if you prefer);
  6. Place in the tray spreading it to fully cover the base of the tray and put in the oven for about 20/25 minutes - NOT MORE or they will be dry. You can insert a toothpick and it should not come out clean, you want it to come out a like if it was a little undercooked;
  7. Let cool completely in the pan, cut into squares and serve.



Hope you enjoy it, I absolutely loved it!



Love,
Lu *

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