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Blondies

Another clear the fridge recipe! This time round I was clearing the large eggs I bought to do macarons and were expiring soon, also clearing salted caramel chips, hazelnuts and brown sugar.

I think this is my first time making blondies, and it's like brownies but no cocoa. Anything fudgy and sweet is definitely good.

This recipe makes 2 trays of 8x8 and good enough to bring round to many colleagues. They were snapped up pretty fast too! I should be making another batch soon :)

Blondies

226g butter, melted
2 tsp vanilla essence
250g light brown sugar
100g caster sugar
2 large eggs + 1 normal egg
285g flour
2 tsp cornflour/starch
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 packet Hershey's sea salt caramel chips
250g hazelnuts

Melt the butter with the sugar and mix well. I didn't have 250g of light brown sugar but about 180g of dark brown sugar, so I just topped up the rest with caster sugar instead. My blondies turned out darker cos of the dark brown sugar, so technically it's not blonde. HAHA. Add in vanilla and the eggs, then dump in the dry ingredients. The mixture is pretty sticky but don't worry. Bake in 2 trays of 8x8 (buttered and lined) for 30 min at 170 degrees Celsius.


There's that thin crackle layer like brownies! Yay! I thought the nuts and caramel chips were overkill, but hey I'm clearing the fridge and there's nothing wrong with being generous right?

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