TH and I were due to visit my cousin for lunch. A cousin with two kids. Which meant, we should be getting them something.Fruits? Nah. Reminds me of visiting someone at the hospital.
Chocolates? I am a bit careful when I get this for kids because I know parents who don't introduce chocolates to their kids until they are about 10 or so. Yeah, really. Though I am super glad my parents didn't think of something like this, I respect these parents' decision.
That's when I decided to play it safe and bake something myself. TH may disagree about the 'safe' part but who listens to him anyway, right?
So I decided to bake these lovely butterscotch blondies. This is a step-by-step recipe, my first one inspired by Zesty Cook. These blondies are quite foolproof and really yummy, not to mention a great variation from the usual chocolate brownies!
The best part is, the recipe doesn't involve any kind of whipping, or beating, or creaming, or other complicated baking techniques. This is best suited for baking beginners. So this is for all those of you who are looking to bake something simple and easy.
Other easy baking recipes for beginners:
Pecan pie bites
Eggless brownies
Chocolate pressure cooker cake
Butterscotch Blondies Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter melted
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup butterscotch chips
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Cream the melted butter and sugar until well blended.
- Add the egg and mix well. Then add the vanilla extract.
- Dunk the flour and salt in. Mix well until combined, with no lumps.
- Add the chips and mix gently.
- Transfer to a greased cake tray to a pre-heated oven at 350 F / 175 C and bake for about 30 mins or until a toothpick/skewer comes out clean.
- Cool, cut into squares, and enjoy!
Next, let's measure 1 cup brown sugar.
Mix throughly. You don't need any fancy electric beater or anything for this. Just good old mixing with hands until well blended.
Next, add an egg.
Mix well, gently, until you get a nice watery batter like this that's ready for the flour that you are going to add in next.
But wait! Before we measure out the flour, let's add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract/essence to this and mix well.
Finally, its time for the flour. Measure out 1 cup of all purpose flour. I just dunked the whole thing in. Don't forget to follow the flour with a pinch of salt.
Mix well until the flour is well combined with no lumps.
Now, its time for the star ingredient - Butterscotch Chips!
I didn't find any in the baking supplies store near my house but they had these cute butterscotch drops that were really tiny chips of caramel, so I used these instead. We will need ¾ cup of chips.
Dunk those in too, and blend gently without mashing the chips too much.
There you go. We are done! Well, almost. This is when you call your husband over to help transfer the batter to a greased cake tray so that you can click that as well. Like so.
Of course, you have to do the spreading and making it look pretty bit.
Transfer this to an oven pre-heated at 350 F / 175 C.
Yes, that's my oven. Its very old-fashioned but works like a charm.
The one my mom owns doesn't have a temperature regulator, yet, she used to make the most amazing cakes, different kinds - not to mention puddings and other stuff too!
Mine has a regulator and the highest setting is 220 C. I rarely need a hotter oven than that.
The dome-like lid lets you take a peek into what's baking. You see those tiny holes near the edge of the glass disc? That's where I insert my 'toothpick' to check if my cakes are done. Though, when I say toothpick, I actually mean an extra long skewer!
After about 30-40 mins of baking, your butterscotch blondies should look like this. If you are anything like me, you would have to resist the temptation to just dig your hands in and remind yourself just in time that you baked these for your cousin and family.
It's quite easy after that. Cool, cut into squares.
Pack it in a container...
.. and get ready for the compliments 🙂
Oh, this should easily get you about 12-15 squares if you use an 8 by 8 cake tray so you will have enough for yourselves too!
mittu
Wow this must be telepathy I just made good ol brownies day before. Yesterday another blogger put up brownies and today you are putting up blondies! they look really nice and soft...
And about the oven. My mum has this too its so old that the temparature knob doesnt work nymore! We tried looking for this type but dint find any in chennai.
Someone was asking about butterscotch chips and caramel chips being available in chennai... its available in Nuts n Spices.( That store made me familiar with stuff available in US)
RV
Butterscotch blondies are not really blonde...They look beautiful and delicious and your oven looks super cool...
Nags
No problem! I will answer whatever I can 🙂 So, in my oven, there is a small perforated disc that I am supposed to place at the bottom for even heating and baking. My mom lost hers years back and puts it directly on the base of the oven. Either should work just fine.
Anonymous
sorry to add to the slew of questions/comments on the oven, but i have another question for you. 🙂 one of these ovens was just given to me, but it's old and there's no manual with it. i'm wondering if you simply place the cake pan on the base of the oven or do you use some of the other metal contraptions that came with it to hold it up and not touch the botton?
passionforlife
Nags., Thanks a lot.. it was of great help. Now I know where the indicator is! The indicator light wasn't working, so I've given it in the shop for repairing. Thanks a lot once again.:)
passionforlife
and how about setting the temperature. The knob moves all around! Pardon my ignorance!
passionforlife
Hi Nags,
I had to ask you abt the oven! Actually I do have a similar kind of oven which mom bought some 13-14 years ago but stopped using it. Now that I have started my experiments with baking, and as in microwave oven baking the texture suffers, I was reminded of this old oven. It is working even after all this years. But what I wanted to ask you was if I can use a non stick cake dish in it, as mom tells I can use only aluminium, as per her memory of the manual which we lost. It would be of great help if you can enlighten me on that.
Nags
passionforlife - i have used a non-stick muffin tray in this oven and it comes out fine. so it should be totally fine. the oven comes with aluminium trays so that's why your mom said that's what you should use. She is right in a way, aluminium works best but non stick is fine to use too.
As for the temp knob, mine doesn't go around all the way but if yours does, try to look for the arrow or some mark that indicates where you need to align the temp number to. That should set the temp but really, in this oven, it doesn't matter if your temp is not accurate. I sometimes don't even check the recipe and just set what I feel like 😀 You can refer the above pic to see how the arrow indicator looks like.
Hope this helps!! 🙂
Srivalli
Lovey cake, am sure your cousins loved it!
Poornima Nair
Looks super delicious Nags...great texture...bet the kids loved every bit...