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Dulce de Leche Swirl Brownies

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Dulce de Leche Swirl Brownies

I am officially old.

It’s my brother’s birthday today and he’s 18. Eighteen, what the hell!?

When did we all get so old?! I remember when he was a little blonde baby taking everything in sight apart with a screwdriver and running around naked. Now he’s an adult!

When I took my car for an MOT on Wednesday, my brother took me out for a drive in his car. Honestly, the weirdest experience of my life looking to my right and seeing my brother sat there driving me!!!

I’m a proper grown up now :/

Woah, this is too much for me, I’m going to stuff my face with brownies.

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Dulce de Leche Swirl Brownies

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 90 g good quality dark chocolate
  • 150 g unsalted butter
  • 300 g light brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 125 g plain flour
  • 25 g cocoa powder, I use Green & Blacks
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 400 g dulce de leche

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and grease and line an 8 x 8 inch pan.
  2. Break the chocolate into a heatproof bowl and add in the butter. Place in the microwave in 20 second increments stirring between everyone until everything is melted. (Make sure you stir for a good 30 seconds because chocolate can sometimes be melted, but still hold it's shape so if you stir a few lumps, you might not need to heat it again!) If you're not comfortable melting chocolate in the microwave then place the heatproof bowl over a small saucepan of simmering water and stir until melted.
  3. Leave to one side to cool. Place the sugar, eggs and vanilla extract into a large bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer and mix until smooth and well combined, about a minute on med-high speed.
  4. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt together into a medium bowl.
  5. Add the melted chocolate to the sugar and egg mixture and mix until well combined and smooth.
  6. Tip in the dry ingredients and fold in on a low speed until well combined.
  7. Add in the dulce de leche and stir by hand, don't incorporate entirely, leave lots of glorious swirls 🙂
  8. Pour the mixture into your baking pan and smooth over, being careful not to undo your work of making the swirls!
  9. Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes until an inserted skewer comes out with a few crumbs still stuck to it.
  10. Leave to cool completely in the tin.
  11. Once cooled slice into 9-12 bars and store in an airtight container at room temperature for 4 days.

Recipe Notes

Recipe by Annie

Dulce de Leche Swirl Brownies
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Comments

  2. Adelina Priddis says

    Oh yummy!! I always love a twist on brownies.
    Isn't it crazy how fast we grow up, but we really see it when we look at our siblings. My baby sister is graduating high school this summer, and starting college. It seems unreal, and makes me feel so old.

  7. Diane says

    The gooey dulce de leche seeping out of your brownies makes me want to bite into my computer. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe with us on foodie friday.

  10. anyonita says

    beautiful! they look yummy! i followed you from your marvelous mondays link party post! 🙂 i wanted to let you know that i'm going to be starting my own link party for recipes on tuesdays. it kicks off tomorrow! i'd love it if you participated! 🙂 http://www.anyonita-nibbles.com is my blog.

  12. Miz Helen says

    Good Morning,
    Thank you so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday. Hope you have a lovely week and come back soon!
    Miz Helen

  14. Annie Standing says

    I'm starting to think of so many twists I can do on Brownies now since these turned out so great! I know, it's crazy isn't it?! I agree, it only really got me when I realised he was 18!

  16. Annie Standing says

    Thank you! 🙂 Embarrassingly this is the first time I've tried dulce de leche! But yes I agree, I'm in love with it now!

  27. Jocelyn says

    I need me some of those awesome brownies to make me forget the fact that my oldest child is now 13. Where does the time go???

  34. Annie Standing says

    I know it's so scary! I can't believe we're more than half way through March already, feels like it was just Christmas! Arghhhh it needs to slow down!

  42. Joanna says

    OK, seriously lady, you are going to be soooooo bad for my diet O_O (And my blood sugar!!! ) *follow*

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