Macadamia Nut And White Chocolate Brownies

Posted 2015-04-03 by finy ⇒ follow

I used to live on 5 acres and had this prolific macadamia nut tree - we did not do anything to it, and it just kept producing more and more macadamias. They were one of the few things the water rats could not eat easily due to the hard shell.

I still have many kilos left and they seem to last forever, so I decided to make some brownies out of them.

So I sat down with my special macadamia nut machine and cracked some nuts for this recipe!

My love for white chocolate and the much healthier, dark chocolate are also included in this recipe which is very
moor-ish.

Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 40 minutes
Makes: 20 squares

Ingredients
200g dark cooking chocolate, chopped
100 g butter
2 tbsp water
½ cup caster sugar
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 eggs, lightly beaten
40 g plain flour
150 g white chocolate
90 g macadamia nuts, chopped

Method

Preheat the oven to moderate -160° fan forced, and line a 20 cm square cake tin with foil or baking paper.

Combine chocolate, butter and water in a medium saucepan. Stir over low heat until the chocolate and butter have melted and the mixture is smooth.

Stir in the sugar and remove from the heat. Stir in the vanilla essence, eggs and flour and mix until well combined.

If in a block, chop the white chocolate, though I find it easier to buy Melts or something similar. Stir this chocolate and the macadamia nuts into the mixture.