White Chocolate & Rose Blondies
White Chocolate & Rose Blondies are a delicious sweet pink treat packed with chunks of white chocolate. There’s a subtle hint of rose and they are perfect for anyone who loves all things pink.
The ‘We should Cocoa’ challenge for the last couple of months has been nice and easy, chocolate and strawberries – tick, chocolate and apricots – tick (I even managed to make that one low fat!
But when I read the August challenge I was horrified, Chocolate and ROSE, what on earth was I going to make with rose, where (in the depths of south west Scotland) was I going to get rose water or rose flavouring of some kind?
I’ve been pondering the challenge for a few weeks now and considered all sorts, I managed to find a bottle of Thorncroft Rose Hip Cordial at a deli in Kirkcudbright.
As I am on holiday at home this week, I started to look seriously at some of my cake recipes to see if I could incorporate the rose flavour into one of them.
What I came up with was a recipe for Peanut Butter & White Chocolate Blondies from Rachel Allen’s Bake. It called for a teaspoon of vanilla essence which I replaced with a teaspoon of the Rosehip Cordial. I also added half a teaspoon of red food colouring to ‘rose’ it up a bit!
Ooh look, pink blondie mix. And that’s when Blondie became ‘Barbie’
I melted the rest of the white chocolate and topped the ‘Barbies’ with the melted choc then sprinkled it with pink sugar, now totally Barbie. I even had time for a bit of photo dressing with some rose petals and a little rose – awww pretty! OMG they are delicious, I’m not saying you can taste much in the way of rose in there, and this is certainly NOT the low fat option – but then, it is my birthday this week, I think I’m allowed.
White Chocolate & Rose Blondies
Delightful sweet pink blondies with chunks of white chocolate.
Equipment
- 20 x 20cm (8×8″) square cake tin
Ingredients
- 125 g (4.5 oz) plain flour all purpose
- 1 tsp (1 tsp) baking powder
- 100 g (3.5 oz) butter softened
- 150 g (0.6 cups) crunchy peanut butter
- 175 g (0.8 cups) soft light brown sugar
- 1 (1) egg beaten
- 1 tsp (1 tsp) rosehip cordial or ½ tsp rose water
- 1/2 tsp (1/2 tsp) red food colouring
- 75 g (0.6 cups) white chocolate chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 170C (325F) Gas Mark 3.
- Butter the sides of the cake tin and line the base with baking parchment.
- 125 g plain flour all purpose, 1 tsp baking powderSift the flour and baking powder into a small bowl and set aside.
- 100 g butter, 150 g crunchy peanut butterIn a large bowl, cream the butter and peanut butter together until very soft.
- 175 g soft light brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 tsp rosehip cordial or ½ tsp rose waterAdd the sugar, egg and rosehip cordial or rose water and red food colouring and beat until combined.
- 125 g plain flour all purpose, 1 tsp baking powder, 75 g white chocolateAdd the flour, baking powder and the chopped chocolate to form a dough.
- 125 g plain flour all purposePlace the dough in prepared tin and bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown an almost firm in the centre.
- Allow to cool in the tin, before removing and cutting into squares.
Notes
Optional
Melt 75g (3oz) white chocolate with a knob of butter in a bowl over a pan of hot water, spread over cooled cake and sprinkle with pink decorating sugar before the chocolate sets. Cut into small squares.
Melt 75g (3oz) white chocolate with a knob of butter in a bowl over a pan of hot water, spread over cooled cake and sprinkle with pink decorating sugar before the chocolate sets. Cut into small squares.
Nutrition
Calories: 145kcalCarbohydrates: 20gProtein: 1gFat: 7gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 25mgSodium: 53mgPotassium: 53mgFiber: 1gSugar: 14gVitamin A: 172IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 24mgIron: 1mg
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how totally fabulous darling!… look at those pink little kitsch numbers!… know any drag queens these might be suitable for? I do!!… love them!
Janice, those look amazing ~ what a great idea too…..very innovative!
Karen
Ha ha – lovely – sparkly and pink – what a nice early birthday treat!
Hope you have a good birthday when it comes, Janice.
Lou.
Oh excellent! What an original take on the challenge theme.
One word "Amazing"!
Janice your barbies are sooo pretty!!
Ahh, how lovely are they. What a wonderful way to indulge for your birthday. I'm not going to say I'm sorry, because it's been great fun to see how people cope with this challenge. Thanks for not giving up.
very clever 🙂
could you taste the rose hip in all that chocolate??
I was expecting the 1980s singer and a plastic doll Janice but these look much more tastier!
🙂
They look fab – but sadly I couldn't eat them…peanut butter 🙁
That is pure genius Janice! Wish I thought of rosehip cordial instead of rose water!!! Love the colour too.
Fab take on the challenge, these looks great!
Wow, they certainly would give the banana version I made recnelty a good run. Gorgeous for sure.
Love the 'barbie' – such a great idea! Happy belated birthday too!
Wow, these look great! Lovely blog too!
These are so sweet. I love how a dash of food colouring can change everything. Beautiful!