White chocolate blondies

Name: White chocolate blondies
Ingredients: 175 g/6 oz/¾ cup unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 300 g/11 oz/generous 1½ cups caster (superfine) sugar; 3 eggs, beaten; 5 ml/1 tsp vanilla extract; 200 g/7 oz/1¾ cups plain (all-purpose) flour; 5 ml/1 tsp baking powder; 90 g/3½ oz white chocolate chips; 90 g/3½ oz/scant 1 cup pecan nuts, roughly chopped; 90 g/3½ oz/scant ½ cup ready-to-eat dried apricots, chopped; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting

Preparation info

Makes
24
squares

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

Blondies, like brownies, are chewy and moist squares, except that they don’t usually contain chocolate. These ones, however, are made with white chocolate, sticky apricots and crunchy pecan nuts, so they are extra special. Keep for up to three days in an airtight container.

Ingredients

175 g/6 oz/¾ cup unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
300

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 30 x 20cm/12 x 8in shallow tin (pan) with baking parchment.
Beat the butter with the sugar, then add the eggs and vanilla, beating well after each addition.
Sift the flour and baking po