May 25, 2010

Butterscotch Brownie Cake

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
1 3/4 cups packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 2/3 cups (11-oz. pkg.) butterscotch chips, divided
1 cup chopped nuts

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350° F.
Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl until creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in 1 cup morsels and nuts. Spread into ungreased 13x9-inch baking pan. Sprinkle with remaining morsels.BAKE for 30 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack.
Butterscotch Ganache
6 oz. butterscotch morsels
6 Tbsp heavy whipping cream
3 Tbsp unsalted butter
In a small saucepan, heat cream and butter until just before the boiling stage.
Pour over the butterscotch morsels.
Let stand about 20 seconds and stir until smooth.
Pour over brownies.

For chocolate ganache, just replace butterscotch morsels for semi-sweet chocolate morsels.
After the brownie cakes cool, added some yummy butterscotch ganache. Make sure to put some wax paper or foil underneath your cooling rack so you don’t get ganache all over the place.

In these pictures, Bakerella used two 5" pans for the brownie cake and then made a single 6" round.