Dulce de Leche Brownies

Well if you have already made Dulce de Leche, then you have got to make Dulce de Leche brownies! These brownies are fudgy, chocolatey and the Dulce de leche toffee like pieces in between make them incredibly tempting, it is difficult to stop just after one brownie.

(Recipe adapted from David Lebovitz)
Ingredients:

115g unsalted butter cut into pieces
170 g semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
25 g cocoa powder
3 large eggs
180 g granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
140 g plain flour
1 cup of Dulce de Leche (but if you are like me and love Dulce de Leche, you might want to use more than a cup!)
You can throw in about half a cup of roasted. chopped walnuts as well.

1. Pre heat oven to 175 ˚C fan oven.
2. Line a 20cm square or about a medium rectangular baking tin with foil and grease the foil all the way from bottom up to the sides with some butter.
3. Melt the cubed butter in a sauce pan and add the chocolate pieces, stir on low heat till all the chocolate melts. Remove from heat and whisk in the cocoa powder.
4. Add the eggs one at a time and whisk them in.
5. Add sugar, vanilla extract and flour and mix it in. Do not over mix, just enough to get a smooth batter.
6. Pour in half the batter into the prepared foil lined tin. Add dollops of a third of the Dulce de Leche and use a knife or a skewer to swirl it around. Now pour in the rest of the brownie batter and then top it with dollops of the rest of the Dulce de Leche and swirl again.

1. Bake in the pre heated oven for 35-40 minutes. Do not over bake or the brownie will come out dry.You can check it with a skewer, it should come out with a few crumbs stuck to it.
2. Cool and cut into squares.These brownies keep for 2-3 days.

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Banana Bread

Hello hello!

One of the easiest and yummiest snack- this is. Since it has a fruit-banana- it is comparatively healthy, I would even count it as eating my fruit of the day :D. I love banana bread, it is invariably the best use of those bottom of the bowl bananas which have been left too long and squished too much. I usually end up baking it on Saturday mornings and snack on it all weekend then! What fun!!

230 grams plain flour
150 grams granulated white sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 eggs, beaten lightly
110 grams unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 ripe bananas which comes out to be about 1 and a half cup
1 tsp vanilla extract
100 grams slightly toasted and chopped walnuts

Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
Grease and line a loaf tin or a 9″ cake tin.

In a bowl, mash-up the bananas. Add the eggs, cooled butter and the vanilla extract.
In another bowl mix together all the dry ingredients flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and walnuts.
Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredient bowl and fold it in with a wooden spoon or a spatula. Do not over mix it, just enough so that the mixture is still chunky and streaky.
Scrape the batter into the prepared tin.
Bake for about 45 -50 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.

Cool on a wire rack-can be eaten warm or cold.

My house fills up with the amazing smell of the baking banana every I time make this!

Thanks for visiting! Do let me know how you get on with it.