TH and I were due to visit my cousin for lunch. A cousin with two kids. Which meant, we should be getting them something.Fruits? Nah. Reminds me of visiting someone at the hospital.
Chocolates? I am a bit careful when I get this for kids because I know parents who don’t introduce chocolates to their kids until they are about 10 or so. Yeah, really. Though I am super glad my parents didn’t think of something like this, I respect these parents’ decision.
That’s when I decided to play it safe and bake something myself. TH may disagree about the ‘safe’ part but who listens to him anyway, right?
So I decided to bake these lovely butterscotch blondies. This is a step-by-step recipe, my first one inspired by Zesty Cook. These blondies are quite foolproof and really yummy, not to mention a great variation from the usual chocolate brownies!
The best part is, the recipe doesn’t involve any kind of whipping, or beating, or creaming, or other complicated baking techniques. This is best suited for baking beginners. So this is for all those of you who are looking to bake something simple and easy.
Other easy baking recipes for beginners:
Pecan pie bites
Eggless brownies
Chocolate pressure cooker cake
- ½ cup butter (melted)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup butterscotch chips
- 1 pinch salt
- Cream the melted butter and sugar until well blended.
- Add the egg and mix well. Then add the vanilla extract.
- Dunk the flour and salt in. Mix well until combined, with no lumps.
- Add the chips and mix gently.
- Transfer to a greased cake tray to a pre-heated oven at 350 F / 175 C and bake for about 30 mins or until a toothpick/skewer comes out clean.
- Cool, cut into squares, and enjoy!
Next, let’s measure 1 cup brown sugar.
Mix throughly. You don’t need any fancy electric beater or anything for this. Just good old mixing with hands until well blended.
Next, add an egg.
Mix well, gently, until you get a nice watery batter like this that’s ready for the flour that you are going to add in next.
But wait! Before we measure out the flour, let’s add 1 tsp vanilla extract/essence to this and mix well.
Finally, its time for the flour. Measure out 1 cup of all purpose flour. I just dunked the whole thing in. Don’t forget to follow the flour with a pinch of salt.
Mix well until the flour is well combined with no lumps.
Now, its time for the star ingredient – Butterscotch Chips!
I didn’t find any in the baking supplies store near my house but they had these cute butterscotch drops that were really tiny chips of caramel, so I used these instead. We will need 3/4 cup of chips.
Dunk those in too, and blend gently without mashing the chips too much.
There you go. We are done! Well, almost. This is when you call your husband over to help transfer the batter to a greased cake tray so that you can click that as well. Like so.
Of course, you have to do the spreading and making it look pretty bit.
Transfer this to an oven pre-heated at 350 F / 175 C.
Yes, that’s my oven. Its very old-fashioned but works like a charm.
The one my mom owns doesn’t have a temperature regulator, yet, she used to make the most amazing cakes, different kinds – not to mention puddings and other stuff too!
Mine has a regulator and the highest setting is 220 C. I rarely need a hotter oven than that.
The dome-like lid lets you take a peek into what’s baking. You see those tiny holes near the edge of the glass disc? That’s where I insert my ‘toothpick’ to check if my cakes are done. Though, when I say toothpick, I actually mean an extra long skewer!
After about 30-40 mins of baking, your butterscotch blondies should look like this. If you are anything like me, you would have to resist the temptation to just dig your hands in and remind yourself just in time that you baked these for your cousin and family.
It’s quite easy after that. Cool, cut into squares.
Pack it in a container…
.. and get ready for the compliments 🙂
Oh, this should easily get you about 12-15 squares if you use an 8 by 8 cake tray so you will have enough for yourselves too!
A cake recipe without baking powder or soda?! Wow.. and it looks nice and crumbly. This recipe makes me question the relevance of adding those leavening agents in various cake recipes. Could you please throw some light on this..?
hi ruchi, this is not a cake recipe. blondies are like brownies but without chocolate. so it won’t be soft and fluffy like cakes.
Hi Nags! Thanks for the recipe! I made this with flax as an egg substitute and it worked out great:) Mix 1 tbsp ground flaxseeds with 3 tbsp water and microwave for 1 minute and it will become a sticky egg-like consistency.
i have tried that egg substitute in other recipes but not for butterscotch blondies. so glad they turned out well. thanks for leaving a note to tell me 🙂
Thanks a lot for sharing that recipe Laura!
I just found your recipe and will try it out this afternoon, it looks good! Your recipe reminded me of a quick brownie recipe that I really enjoy and thought I'd share it with you.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of softened butter
1/2 cup of white sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp of vanilla extract
1/4 of cocoa powder
1/4 cup of white flour
Mix butter and sugar together, then add egg and vanilla mixing well. Add cocoa and flour and, if not already done, put mixture into a microwave safe bowl. Place in microwave and cook for around 1 min 50 sec to 2 minutes (this depends on how powerful your microwave is). You'll have to experiment with the correct timing to get the consistency you like.
This makes only four servings, which is great if you just need a quick snack and don't want all the leftover brownies. Its super easy and total prep/cook time is less than 10 minutes. And of course you can add nuts/chocolate chips/whatever else you may like. Enjoy!
Oh my god. my mom used to use an oven like that. I have never baked and seeing your recipie and oven has inspired me to bake! I hope we still get this in India. I have not seen one in any store. Thanks for the inspiration.
Sowmya
Durga, check out the post here: http://meetmykitchenthings.blogspot.com/2010/06/measuring-cups-mania.html
I made it to address your question.
Singapore.Do u think u can send a pic of ur cup.Hope u don't think that my request is lame.LOL just woud be a great help!
Hi Durga, you should be able to find it in all baking related stores or kitchen ware stores. Where do you live?
Hi! Love ur recipes! Can u please tell me where to buy a measuring cup for baking? im having trouble finding a right one. Therefore i tend to avoid recipes that give measurements in cups instead of grams. It would be a huge help!
Thanks for the step by step procedure, it takes lot of patience to do that. Texture of the blondies is soo gud & yummmy!
It wud be of great help if u suggest any alt ingredient for butterscotch chips…dont think its available easily everywhere 🙁
Wow!great post! I would love to try this! My hubby is a great fan of butterscotch,but I have never bought egg home,but too tempting,so have to try:) Thanks for step wise picture,its really helpful here:)
Looks yummy, love the step by step instructions pictures. I was searching or your blog for quite sometime. I din't know that you moved to your new home. 🙂 Finally I got it!! thanks for dropping by.
Simply amazing!:-) Naga, where can i buy an oven like that? I would love to start baking…
that is simple and easy nags!!!
now all I have to do is buy butterscotch chips
happy happy
woww…so nice of u …i like the way u show ur love to kids ..thru spending times and enegry baking urself…blondies look grt..will give a try!!!!!
OMG, thats a excellent explanation, great pics
Nags, I was in search of an oven like this! Don't know this is available here, if didn't get here, hope I can search in your place. looks so lovely! 🙂
Thanks a ton Reny! Do try this butterscotch blondies recipe and let me know how they turned out. Thanks again for the encouraging words!
Thanks a ton Reny! Do try this butterscotch blondies recipe and let me know how they turned out. Thanks again for the encouraging words!
Hi….Love ur step by step instructions…ever since Rias blog enchanted me to bakin ..i'm at it…somtimes..the results are not very good ..but i keep tryin…and read abt ur oven..cool..on my next trip to kerala..u bet i m going to get one…meanwhile im going to try this one and the nan…Really loved the instructions u give..will let u know how it goes..Keep up the good work !!Reny.
mittu, that's awesome!! thanks for the tip on the store in Chennai 🙂
Wow this must be telepathy I just made good ol brownies day before. Yesterday another blogger put up brownies and today you are putting up blondies! they look really nice and soft…
And about the oven. My mum has this too its so old that the temparature knob doesnt work nymore! We tried looking for this type but dint find any in chennai.
Someone was asking about butterscotch chips and caramel chips being available in chennai… its available in Nuts n Spices.( That store made me familiar with stuff available in US)
Butterscotch blondies are not really blonde…They look beautiful and delicious and your oven looks super cool…
No problem! I will answer whatever I can 🙂 So, in my oven, there is a small perforated disc that I am supposed to place at the bottom for even heating and baking. My mom lost hers years back and puts it directly on the base of the oven. Either should work just fine.
sorry to add to the slew of questions/comments on the oven, but i have another question for you. 🙂 one of these ovens was just given to me, but it's old and there's no manual with it. i'm wondering if you simply place the cake pan on the base of the oven or do you use some of the other metal contraptions that came with it to hold it up and not touch the botton?
Nags., Thanks a lot.. it was of great help. Now I know where the indicator is! The indicator light wasn’t working, so I’ve given it in the shop for repairing. Thanks a lot once again.:)
passionforlife – i have used a non-stick muffin tray in this oven and it comes out fine. so it should be totally fine. the oven comes with aluminium trays so that’s why your mom said that’s what you should use. She is right in a way, aluminium works best but non stick is fine to use too.
As for the temp knob, mine doesn’t go around all the way but if yours does, try to look for the arrow or some mark that indicates where you need to align the temp number to. That should set the temp but really, in this oven, it doesn’t matter if your temp is not accurate. I sometimes don’t even check the recipe and just set what I feel like 😀 You can refer the above pic to see how the arrow indicator looks like.
Hope this helps!! 🙂
and how about setting the temperature. The knob moves all around! Pardon my ignorance!
Hi Nags,
I had to ask you abt the oven! Actually I do have a similar kind of oven which mom bought some 13-14 years ago but stopped using it. Now that I have started my experiments with baking, and as in microwave oven baking the texture suffers, I was reminded of this old oven. It is working even after all this years. But what I wanted to ask you was if I can use a non stick cake dish in it, as mom tells I can use only aluminium, as per her memory of the manual which we lost. It would be of great help if you can enlighten me on that.
Lovey cake, am sure your cousins loved it!
Looks super delicious Nags…great texture…bet the kids loved every bit…
A splendid job. I felt as if I baked butterscotch blondies. Have bookmarked it, will try & let you know 🙂
A bunch of you asked for an egg substitute. I am really not sure if egg substitutes like silken tofu, or vegetable oil or things like that would work for this recipe. Its worth a shot, but try at your own risk.. Sorry about that.
Crafty Shines – You can definitely try with chocc chips but the flavour would change significantly, of course 🙂
nags i have to say ur blogging style has evolved so much! i mean the pics went from good to great…now ur blog is just not recipes..but there is so much info in it…i am surely going to look into ur photo tips..
step by step pictures and detailed explanation,
really grrrrrrr8!!!!!thank u so much!!!!!!!!!!
sudha
finally the oven! totally NOT what i was picturing but i feel educated nonetheless.
the blondies look delicious!
me loves!!!! do you think i can try this with choco chips??? 🙂
Dangg girl, you must have a LOT of patience to be so methodical and so detailed in your pics and instructions:) nice post…LOVE blondies…it’s been so long since I’ve had one!
Tina – I don’t know Blore well enough to give you exact store names but I would try places that have cooking chocolate and chocolate chips and bakeware and stuff. Slightly high end and specialised, probably 🙂
errr, have u got any leftovers by any chance?
Nags…bs blondies look gr8 – cud u tell me where i can find those chips in india? i am in bangalore. thanks!
God – its been years since I saw this oven – I am pretty sure I saw these ovens in Kodambakkam but may be wrong because it was when I lived in Chennai some years back.
Love the caramel chips – the blondies look just delicious!
Nags, I was in search of an oven like this! Don’t know this is available here, if didn’t get here, hope I can search in your place. looks so lovely! 🙂
The recipe and the Oven looks very interesting…
Looks yum…..I like the look of the oven too.
This is to everyone who asked me about the oven 🙂 I have seen this only in Kottayam but since a lot of you commented saying you have seen it or your mom has a similar one, I am guessing its available throughout Kerala if not outside. I have searched for this in Chennai but its not available.
If you are in or around Kottayam, you can get it in Shah Enterprises on TB Road. The price is about 1000rs or so and the company is called OK as you can see 🙂
Good luck!!
interesting oven. where can i get one like that?
OMG, thats a excellent explanation, great pics
Hi nags!!
lovely blondies..and very suitable for a worst baker llike me..
hey even my mom uses the same kind of oven..pretty and handy 🙂
Sonal
oh my god… how many pics… very detailed steps.. that is good for beginners like me. the cake looks delicious…last couple of pics r very very tempting. i like ur oven. it’s cute.
Easy and quick recipe Nags. Wow… you’ve made a special cake for those kids that so sweet of you!!! 🙂 I really wonder to your cute oven as I have seen this first time ever.
BTW, thanks for sharing.
woww…so nice of u …i like the way u show ur love to kids ..thru spending times and enegry baking urself…blondies look grt..will give a try!!!!!
My mom has one of these ovens! She used to make us some fabulous cakes and pizzas. I think she still has it somewhere in storage now.:D
I have thought of making blondies so many times but have always ended up adding chocolate to it, making it brownies.
The kids must have been so pleased! 🙂
Oh WOW they look so yummy! Thanks for mentioning me and using the recipe. i am so glad they turned out!
zesty
that is simple and easy nags!!!
now all I have to do is buy butterscotch chips
happy happy
Wow i want to have few of these delicous blondies. Lucky kids who got these.
If you ever visit me, you can alwways vake and bring these for me.
I gave my daughter sweets and chocolate from a very young age.
There is nothing wrong with a old fashioned oven my mom had these from the time when i was little and she used to make delicious cakes in them, nothing fancy but the vanilla , chocolate and the christmas ones.
Even my sis have this one in her place back in B’lore.
Love ur oven..really very amazing work Nags, love the step by step procedure, really helpful for us to try in future..
This is a wonderful step by step recipe am sure will work like a charm when i use it
Simply amazing!:-) Naga, where can i buy an oven like that? I would love to start baking…
Never ever put up a recipe without pics ok? I am one of those ppl who likes to see the outcome before attempting to try it and ur pics really tempt me to work my @&# off!! By the way was too happy to see the first pic till I read what u have written beneath it – I thought I could get away this time without actually shaping the thing…hmmpff
Nags any suggestion abt making the blondies without eggs? my husband has been complaining a lot lately abt me making things just for myself and my son; ma husband is allergic to egg and he sulks when we dig into things which he can't even smell.
Those blondies look yummy. I’m sure the kids (and the adults) loved them. Great step-by-step instructions. My mom has the same oven that your mom has without any regulators, but it still works wonders.
Oh luscious and deslih….Love the pictorial view…
Nags – they look delicious!!! I can just imagine their goodness -drool
Thanks a ton for all the lovely comments – it’s encouraging !!!
Blondies are as equally delicious as brownies. Great step-by-step instructions with pictures.
Looks yummy, love the step by step instructions pictures. I was searching or your blog for quite sometime. I din’t know that you moved to your new home. 🙂 Finally I got it!! thanks for dropping by.
Wow, for some weird reason, I thought butterscotch blondies were cookies. You know? Snickerdoodle types or mebbe I thought they were that. Sigh.
They look great. However, I’m not a caramel fan. A is. So, I will show this recipe appropriately. 😛 I will divide the batter and add chocolate to my half *hmph*
OMG!! That’s what I had when I was a teenager and used to bake in it. I didn’t think they still exist! So wonderful, glad they still work so efficiently. I prefer Blondies for Brownies any day. Looks perfect Nagu, good job! 🙂
Wow! thats all I can say….
Nice to see you baking, Nags. Beautiful butterscotch blondies. My daughter loves them and I prefer the brownies so we’re both happy. My husband who likes both is probably the happiest!! 🙂
Wow!great post! I would love to try this! My hubby is a great fan of butterscotch,but I have never bought egg home,but too tempting,so have to try:) Thanks for step wise picture,its really helpful here:)
Excellent recipe will try it and post it soon
It takes a lot of work to take step by step pics and you have done such a good of it! I love your oven, my mom had one just like that when she first started to bake!
Divya – Glad u like the step by step 🙂 thanks a ton!!
In India, butterscotch chips may be hard to find, I understand. In Hyderabad, its available in Q-Mart, according to a friend 🙂
As for the oven, I have only seen this in Kerala. This one is from Kottayam, and I brought this in my suitcase, all the way to Singapore. You can bake everything in this.
Pix – You do get cup measurements in Cold Storage. Check near the kitchen utentils section. Otherwise, you can find it in the kitchenware section of stores like Takashimaya, Metro, Isetan, etc. Pirex has a glass bowl that measures and is also microwaveable. Go for that 🙂
this is super duper useful thanks so much! will definitely try this, they look really tasty. I have a quick question about your equipment though… Where in Singapore can you get a cup-measuring device? We had one at home in London and forgot to pack it and haven’t been able to find one here yet! Tried NTUC and Cold Storage but haven’t seen them and am getting tired of converting everything to weight measurements 🙂
Annoying pictures..??Yada yada..??Those are more awaited than the recipes;-).Loved the step by step pictures..would love to try it out too,but I’ll have to go on a treasure hunt to see if Caramel chips/Butterscotch are available in Chennai..;-)
Wow, they look so yum…any egg replacement you suggest since am vegertarian….and hey, I have been looking to buy an oven…..whats this….Dont we need an OTG to bake? Sorry, am an amateur….where do you get this from? and can we bake muffins, vegetables, brownies and all other stuff in this machine…..Can we get this in Hyderabad? It will be really nice if you can help me out with this info?
Rupa.
Thanks for the step by step procedure, it takes lot of patience to do that. Texture of the blondies is soo gud & yummmy!
It wud be of great help if u suggest any alt ingredient for butterscotch chips…dont think its available easily everywhere 🙁
Wow…My gosh..loved this one..lemme try too..what a yummy presentation..simply superb and colorful
wowie!! never tried blondies…this looks great…and simple too…