A mummy has shared @
M4M forum the following recipe that she has gotten from Rachel Allen's Bake baking book. And she has shared that this recipe was captured and shown at
UKTV. This recipe is easy to follow, plus UKTV has the
video showing how this can be done.
I have tried it out and its really easy recipe to follow. If a baking nerd like me can do it, you can too. :)
Instead of using white chocolate, as specified in the recipe, i have used my favourite dark chocolate. I have also used a bigger pan because i do not have the 20 x 20cm pan that it has asked for. Due to my inexperience, the top layer of my blondies was burnt. I should have reduced the baking time since my blondies were thinner due to the bigger pan. :(
Nevertheless, after scrapping off the top burnt layer, the blondies turn out to be quite yummy! I would like to try it out again. And to make sure i have better result, i have bought a 20 x 20cm pan just for this recipe. :P
Recipe
(Adapted from Rachel Allen, Bake)
Ingredients
| A |
|
| 125g |
Plain Flour |
| 1tsp |
Baking Powder |
| 100g |
Salted Butter
(@Rm Temp, plus extra for greasing) |
| 150g |
Crunchy Peanut Butter |
| 175g |
Soft Light Brown Sugar |
| 1 |
Egg, beaten |
| 1tsp |
Vanilla Extract |
| 75g |
White Chocolate, chopped |
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 170C/gas 3. Butter the sides of a 20 x 20cm square cake tin and line the base with greaseproof paper.
2. Sift the flour and baking powder into a small bowl and set aside.
3. In a large bowl, cream the butter and peanut butter together until very soft. Add the sugar, egg and vanilla extract and beat until well combined. Add the flour, baking powder and the chopped chocolate and mix to form a dough.
4. Place the dough into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 25–30 minutes, or until golden brown and almost firm in the centre.
5. Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin, before removing and cutting into squares.
On Sunday, I baked Chocolate Lava Cake. Its a very simple cake to bake with just few ingredient. However, it was not easy to get just the right result.
I baked once at my Brother' place in the afternoon and again in the evening at my friend's place.
At my brother's place, out of the 3 cakes that i baked, only 1 turned out nicely. For the 1st one, the outer layer, ie the cake layer, could not hold the chocolate in it. The chocolate flowed out immediately when i removed it from the ramekin. With such result, i put the remaining 2 back into the oven for another 2-3mins. Out of these 2, only one turned out as per my expectation.
@ my friend's place, i double the ingredients to bake more. With double ingredients, i managed to have 51/2 full ramekins. My friend has a microwave oven and we used its convection oven mode to bake the cakes. Not sure if its because its not a traditional convection oven, the cakes were still wobbly after 10mins. So all the cakes went back into the oven. After few in and out, we have baked the cakes for more than 20mins!
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