Apple Walnut Browned Butter Blondies

Yield : 8″ x8″

INGREDIENTS:

6 tablespoons cold butter, sliced

1 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar

1 egg

1 egg whites

1 cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon allspice

1 cup roughly chopped walnuts

1 cup thinly sliced and peeled apples (I used 1 smallish honeycrisp)

1 cup toffee bits (optional)

DIRECTIONS:

 

Cook the butter on the stove on medium heat until lightly browned. Stir with a whisk and be very careful not to burn. Stir in the sugar and then beat in the eggs. Beat with a whisk until smooth. Stir together the flour, powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. Mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture and beat with a whisk until smooth.

Pour about 1 1/4 cup of the batter into a greased 8×8 inch pan. Top with half of the nuts and half of the toffee bits (if using). Lay the apple slices in one thin layer on top of the nuts. Pour the rest of the batter all over the top and spread to cover the apples. Top with the rest of the nuts and toffee.

Bake at 350º for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

source:  yammiesnoshery

Madaleines

INGREDIENTS:

2 large eggs

2/3 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon grated lemon peel

Pinch of salt

1 cup all purpose flour

10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, melted, cooled slightly

Powdered sugar

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 375°F. Generously butter and flour pan for large madeleines (about 3 x 1 1/4 inches).* Using electric mixer, beat eggs and 2/3 cup sugar in large bowl just to blend. Beat in vanilla, lemon peel and salt. Add flour; beat just until blended. Gradually add cooled melted butter in steady stream, beating just until blended.

Spoon 1 tablespoon batter into each indentation in pan. Bake until puffed and brown, about 16 minutes. Cool 5 minutes. Gently remove from pan. Repeat process, buttering and flouring pan before each batch. (Can be made 1 day ahead.)

Dust cookies with powdered sugar.

 

*A metal mold with scallop-shaped indentations, sold at cookware stores.

source : epicurious