"Easy white chocolate, I wouldn't want you to melt" (White Chicks, 2004)

So I was watching Fresh with Anna Olson. I love Anna Olson (I met her twice so far… hehe). She actually inspired me to start baking again a few years ago when her show "Sugar" was on. So on her new show, FRESH with Anna Olson, was on at 3:30pm on my favourite channel... THE FOOD CHANNEL, and she made these Butterscotch White Chocolate Brownies and they looked so good! My brother wanted them too, so off I went off to the grocery stores to buy the ingredients- toffee bits and white chocolate!

... go on, read more ;)

{Butterscotch White Chocolate Brownie Bites}

Recipe adapted from Food Network

Ingredients

• 1/3 cup unsalted butter, cut into pieces
• 6 ounces white chocolate, chopped
• 2 eggs at room temperature
• 1/2 cup light browned sugar, packed
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup + 2 Tbsp all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup Skor toffee bits

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-x-13-inch pan and line with parchment paper so that it hangs over the sides of the pan.
2. Over a pot of barely simmering water melt butter for 1 minute, then add chocolate and stir gently until melted. Remove chocolate from heat to cool for 5 minutes.
3. Whip eggs with sugars using electric beaters until thick and frothy. Add in vanilla and mix. By hand, stir in melted chocolate.
4. In a separate bowl, stir flour, baking powder and salt, then gently stir into chocolate mixture.
5. Stir in Skor bits and spoon batter into prepared pan.
6. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until a rich golden colour. Cool to room temperature before removing from pan.
7. For a fancier treat, melt white chocolate and dip each square halfway and chill to set.

RESULTS: The brownies were really sweet to me, so I decided not to dip the brownies into white chocolate. But they were chewy and I loved how the toffee bits were scattered around the brownie. Oh, I did use 1/6 cup of the white sugar and a little less than 1/2 cup of brown sugar and I still thought it was sweet. But that’s all due to the white chocolate and the toffee bits, so if you are going to make them, I suggest don’t put that much sugar. Overall, it was a good chewy brownie that I would make again :)

White chocolate was used in this recipe. What is white chocolate? Well white chocolate is not really REAL chocolate, because it is not made with cocoa. Rather white chocolate is made with cocoa butter, sugar and milk. It is sweeter than dark chocolate. Also, when baking, you have to be careful with heating the white chocolate, because it melts at a lower temperature.

Bon Appetit,

Jenny