How to Bake Orange-Chocolate Chip Blondies
Yields: 9 large blondies
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 30 mins
Ingredients needed to make Orange-Chocolate Chip Blondies:
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp all purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1/3 cup orange marmalade
- ¾ cup chocolate chips
- Juice of an orange
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- ¼ lb unsalted butter, softened
- ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- Non-stick cooking spray
Cooking instructions for Orange-Chocolate Chip Blondies:
- Place a rack midway within the oven and warm it up to 350 degrees F.
- Spread a parchment paper across the 8×8’’ baking dish and grease it with cooking spray.
- Sprinkle some flour over it and shake off any excess; set aside.
- Stir the salt and baking powder into flour and stir them all together in medium mixing bowl.
- Cream the butter, using an electric mixer, along with sugar, for about a couple of minutes or until the sugar dissolves completely and the mixture fluffs up.
- Crack the egg into it, followed by splashes of orange juice as well as vanilla extract and continue to beat the mixture until well combined.
- Fold in the dry mixture gradually, beating it into the mixture after each addition, until all of it is incorporated into the mixture to form a batter free of lumps; avoid over-mixing.
- Fold in the chocolate chips and set aside.
- Transfer it within the prepared mold and level the surface with a spatula.
- Spoon in small splodges of the orange marmalade on top of the batter, spaced apart and fold them in gently with the tip of a knife.
- Bake it in the oven for half an hour or until the surface puffs up and turns golden.
- Insert a toothpick through the centre of the blondies and bring it out; a spotless toothpick indicates that it is baked through.
- Take it out of the oven and cool in the pan for about 10 minutes or until cool enough to handle.
- Remove from the pan onto a plate and slice out 8 large square blondies.
- Serve right away or seal them in an airtight container to store at room temperature for as long as 3 days.
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