I receive umpteen cookbooks to review in my day job at the Fairfax community paper where I work. It is one of the highlights of my job and I love reading through them and seeing what brilliant cooking minds are coming up with. Some books are incredible, some mediocre but the ones that stand out are the books that have that something extra.
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The recent release of MasterChef Australia runner-up Callum Hann’s ‘I’d Eat That! Simple Ways To Be A Better Cook’ had me immediately. A hardback but compact book it came complete with built-in elastic bookmark to help you easily find your page.
The first recipe I made was Callum’s salted dirty blondies and woah! Did these babies pack a punch. I reduced the sugar from the original and omitted the coffee.
Cut into small squares to serve – that way you can have more : )
Gather:
180g butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
225g plain flour
140g white chocolate [melts or cut into chunks]
65g slivered almonds
sea salt [best quality flakes]
Let’s get to it:
Preheat oven to 190C and grease and line a 20cm square cake pan.
In a large bowl mix butter and sugar, then beat in eggs one at a time then vanilla. Stir in flour and big pinch of sea salt, then sir in almonds and white chocolate.
Scrape into pan then add another generous sprinkle of sea salt.
Bake for around 17 minutes – you want it to be moist but not raw.
Remove from oven, sprinkle over another dash of sea salt and allow to cool before cutting into squares.
the hungry mum 
I envy you getting a first look at so many cookbooks 🙂 This looks like a great find and the recipe title sells it. Yum.
It makes me so happy to see the book deliveries sitting on my desk 🙂 This recipe is goooood – hope you try it.
Nice perk to the job!! They look delicious! loving your photograph of it! I’ll have to pin it and try it when my oven is fixed!!
Thanks Sophie 🙂 You’ll love these – not too sweet but they certainly hit the spot x
Wow, these look delicious! Yum – a weekend treat I feel 😉
Luckily the weekend is so close you can smell it so hurrah for blondies 🙂
these look delicious!!!
Cheers! PS – they really are 🙂
These look scrumptious – just perfect for afternoon tea!
thanks! So quick & easy to make 🙂
I am well jelly (as all the hip young kids say). Many, many moons ago I worked in a bookshop and loved looking at all the new cookbooks. These look delightful and I can’t wait to bake them.
I can’t believe how many new cookbooks are released each month! I’m lucky – I get the catalogues & pick & choose what I want 🙂 These are very yum 🙂
Oh those sound lovely!
thanks! There’s something bewitching about salted caramel.
Yes there is! I don’t have a very sweet tooth, I’m more into savouries, I think that’s why I love salted caramel!
I’ve never made my own yet, but this is making me want to go for it.
Go for it! You’ll be glad you did #delicious
Oh so yummy! I’ll be trying these VERY soon! 🙂
These blondies sound absolutely divine!
ta! They are super addictive.
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Salted caramel & blondies are the best words to have besides each other! Love that pink heart dish too 🙂
You had me at white chocolate! These look so yummy!
Wouldn’t mind a nice big blondie batch 😀
Delicious!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
These look and sound absolutely delicious. It’s that combination of sweet and salty I can’t get enough of! I am enjoying the recipes on your blog. 🙂
Ta! Sweet & salty is just amazing in a baked good, isn’t it? Thanks for your sweet words.
I love the look of these – and so will my daughters.
I hope you try them – you’ll be glad you did 🙂
I discovered blondies fairly recently and I can’t believe I’ve been missing out on them all these years! I think they work especially well with white chocolate!
P.S. I’m envious of your job that involves cook book surfing!
Oooh, I love a blondie and the addition of salted caramel sounds amazing!
There’s just something about a good blondie, isn’t there?
They look so delicious!
Cheers! They ARE so delicious 🙂
And to think, I just bought some white chocolate and didn’t know what I was going to make with it — until now. These sound wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
I love salted caramel and I love blondies, so these sound like perfection to me! Salty and sweet is so perfect and delicious 🙂
I think you must give this a try – you’ll be glad you did 😉
oh yes! salted caramel blondies! my dream come true!
You should make this dream come true & bake them 🙂 Thank me later!
Oh those look good, and highly dangerous to the waistline. My kids would go mad for them, which is always handy. I love white choc but not the melts so much. But I have some white choc in a bar that could just be chopped up. Slurp.
Sooo bad for the hips! I’m *so* not a white choc fan – I find it waaaay to sweet. But a little bit in a slice such as this ain’t half bad 😉
I’d eat that too! 🙂
My mission is to make the world a fatter, happier place 😉
That is a good mission! And looks like you are having success with all this deliciousness!
Oh yum! These look moist and fantastic. Love the heart-shaped dish!
Thanks! This dish is so cute but I keep it tucked away in the back of the cupboard & often forget I even have it 😐
These look delicious!! I love all sweet/salty combinations 🙂
Isn’t it a fab combo? Hits all the targets 🙂