Serendipity Bakes

I hope you've all had wonderful chocolate-filled easters wherever you've been celebrating. We're away for a few days, spending time with family and although the weather has been pretty horrible, we've spent a wonderful few days enjoying new board games, making treasure maps for our (many) easter egg hunts and running outside to make the most of the occasional rays of sunshine.

As if we haven't had enough chocolatey loveliness over the long weekend, today I decided to make us a sweet treat -- and when I say sweet, we all declared this was truly one of the sweetest sweet treats I've made -- before going on to devour whole squares of it. White Chocolate Rolo Blondies. A white chocolate version of a brownie stuffed with the yummiest Rolo sweets. Although if you've been overwhelmed by easter eggs filled with lots of yummy sweeties, you can exchange the Rolos for your own favourite sweet. Mmmm...I'm now dreaming of Maltesers 💕

This is an easy one-bowl batter but for something so simple to make, it rewards big time in flavour. White chocolate is my favourite chocolate and the Rolos turn really squidgy and chewy in the final bake. After the chocolate and butter are melted together, we just add the ingredients one by one, stirring after each addition until they're all combined. After this is spread evenly in a baking tin, then the Rolos are squished (yes, this is technical term!) into the batter and then it's popped into the oven to bake.

Once it's out of the oven, it's left to cool in the tin until just warm and then divided into squares with a sharp knife. How many squares, you decide. I cut ours into 16 but we thought we could actually cut them up smaller into one bite blondies. To drizzle or not to drizzle is entirely up to you, but a dusting of icing sugar and some melted white chocolate makes them a little more special.

So, after all your easter eggs, if you are still hankering after something a touch sweet, insanely chewy and just that little bit decadent, this is the treat for you.

They don't hang around for long :)

White Chocolate Rolo Blondies

Makes 16 squares

Ingredients

250G WHITE CHOCOLATE, CHOPPED
115G UNSALTED BUTTER, CUBED
100G CASTER SUGAR
2 LARGE EGGS, LIGHTLY BEATEN
1/2 TSP VANILLA EXTRACT
130G PLAIN FLOUR
1/2 TSP BAKING
100G WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS
16 ROLOS

Method

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees (fan)
Grease and line an 8 inch square baking tin
Put 175g white chocolate and the cubed butter in a heatproof bowl over a pan of gently simmering water (making sure that the water doesn't touch the base or sides of the bowl)
Stir the chocolate and butter gently over the heat until they're melted together
Remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the sugar until smooth
Slowly add the beaten eggs and then the vanilla extract and stir until the mixture is smooth and glossy (this takes around one minute)
Sift the flour and baking powder over the top of the bowl and then stir to combine
Finally add the white chocolate chips and mix through gently
Pour the batter into the prepared baking tin, ensuring that it reaches all the edges and is evenly spread
Then place 16 rolos across the batter and press them down into the mixture (you will still be able to see them)
Bake in the oven for 20 - 25 minutes until a skewer in the centre comes out clean
Leave to cool in the tin
Once just warm, remove from the tin and divide it into squares with a sharp knife
Dust with icing sugar
Finally melt the remaining 75G white chocolate in the microwave on short bursts (remove from the microwave when 2/3 of the chocolate is melted and then stir gently until all the chocolate is melted)
Drizzle the melted chocolate across the top of the blondies
Enjoy :)