I've heard for months and months about this White Chocolate Brownie inside the best baking cookbook by Dorie Greenspan. A fellow baker, Clara of I heart food for thought has been begging all of us to pick this recipe. Finally Marthe of Culinary Delights selected this recipe for White Chocolate Brownies on pages 110 and 111 of Baking from My Home to Yours.
I like white chocolate (or rather, cocoa butter) but it has to be perfectly balanced with another flavor. Otherwise, it is too much for me. So going into it I was a little nervous.
Then I opened up my baking cookbook and shazam: I saw the picture. Holy cow...these weren't brownies at all! Or were they? I saw beautiful raspberries, I saw a pillowy meringue sitting on top of the white chocolate goodness. Then it got better, I read the recipe to see it also included orange zest (wahoo!) and ground almonds (oh yesss!). I knew I would love this recipe.
Still though, there was a hurdle I would have to overcome before I actually got to enjoy this treat. I had to executive the recipe properly. Thankfully, I read the P&Q post on our group site. It help a lot. The biggest thing for me was making sure to make my meringue properly and also make sure I baked the batter long enough. Many bakers had problems with the middle being goopey.
The results?
I loved this recipe and it turned out well for me, especially considering it was my first attempt. When I make it again, I will bake it longer. Mine was by no means soupy in the middle, but it needed more time.
I thought the taste was beautiful and elegant. The orange zest, white chocolate, ground almonds and fresh raspberries were the perfect combo. I loved the meringue it brought the coolest texture. I really could not get enough of these. My husband loved them as well. And I even brought them into a few coworkers and they loved them (even if they were a day and 1/2 old).
Be sure to check out the LYL post on the official Tuesdays with Dorie blog to see what other bakers made White Chocolate Brownies and how they liked it.
**Oh and excuse the chaos of nasty lighting pictures. Crazy week. Baking at night and then some. ;)
Next week: Tender Shortcakes (I just may be skipping)
14 comments:
Your brownies look great, Becky! I'm glad to see that these worked out well for you.
Beautiful brownies.
I made these without looking at all the comments and didn't realise about the cooking time. Mine were pretty soupy in the middle. Still they were really nice and very different from a usual brownie. Yours look great!
For taking these at night, your pictures look amazing, especially the first one. Congratulations on getting these right the first time, meringue and all! :)
There were many things going on in this bar and I loved all of them!!
I agree - they're amazing for night photography. And they look just as good in the day (if there's any left)! Glad you enjoyed making and eating them!
mike
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I am glad these worked out so well for you, great job! Maybe if I had done the meringue I would have liked them more.
Elegant is exactly the right word for these!! Yours look perfect, thanks for baking with me!
These were beautiful and elegant! I wish I would have read the P&Qs before I baked these. Yours look scrumptious!
I'm impressed that you could get any pictures at night. I haven't figured that one out yet.
Ya, glad it worked so well for you! They look great. I liked all the flavors, I just wish mine wasn't underbaked.
They look great! I'm glad they were everything you hoped they'd be.
Mmm, they still look darn tasty, even with that night-time lighting. I'm glad they worked so well for you, it looks like you got them just right.
Oh, please come and bake some of these for me! I wanted to do this recipe for the longest time, loved the elegant photo in the book, could just taste the ingredients, all favorites, and all in all was just really excited to do this one. Mine flopped, soggy in the middle, fell apart from pan to plate, the meringue caved in, etc. BUT, I have teen boys and they will eat anything so they and their friends ate it all, with a spoon, and declared them, "Good Enough." That said, I want one of YOURS! They look delicious.
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