Maple Butter Blondie Dessert (Like Applebee's)

startnover's Note:

This is as close as I could come too my favorite dessert at Applebee's.

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

Brownie

• 1 ½ cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 ½ cups margarine or 1 ½ cups butter
• 1 ½ cups brown sugar , packed
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
• 1 cup loosely chopped walnuts or 1 cup pecans
• 1 cup white chocolate , chunk (or chips)

Maple butter sauce

• 1 1⁄3; cups sugar
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 2⁄3; cup butter
• 2 teaspoons maple flavoring

Directions:

1. For Brownies:.
2. In mixer blend butter, and brown sugar.
3. Then add baking powder, salt, vanilla, and then eggs.
4. Mix in flour.
5. fold in chips and nuts.
6. Grease a 9 by 13-inch pan and smooth brownie mixture in with a spatula.
7. Bake 350°F for 22-25 minutes.
8. Top should be shiny and firm when you touch the center with a finger -- do not over bake or it will be dry (oven temps may vary so watch brownies closely).
9. Sauce:.
10. Combine first 3 ingredients in a sauce pan and bring to a boil.
11. Cook for 2-3 minutes, remove from heat and add flavoring.
12. To assemble:.
13. While they are still warm, cut brownies into 12 pieces, they may be a little crumbly--they are more cake like in texture.
14. Place a brownie on a plate and top with 2 scoops of ice cream.
15. Then drizzle with sauce and sprinkle with more nuts.

Reviews

[jt82]

This was OK - but there was WAY too much butter. I think next time I make it I'll reduce the butter by half.

[Chef #801905]

These had way too much butter. The brownies were not cake like, they were more of a goopy buttery mess. We really liked the maple topping though.

[Chef #410525]

Never having made anything like this before I followed the recipe explicitly and used the 1 1/2 cups of butter it calls for. Three sticks! That has to be wrong. I ended up with a greasy pan of goo which is not edible. A total waste of ingredients and money. I hope this recipe get corrected.