Stylish Macadamia Brownie

This recipe is from an in-flight magazine and came from a favourite Brisbane dessert cafe!

Macadamia Delight

Ingredients:

For slice:
· 4 eggs
· 1 cup caster sugar
· ½ tin condensed milk
· 200g white chocolate, melted
· 1 cup plain flour
· 250 macadamia halves
· 250g macadamia meal (or process 250g macadamia kernels in a food processor until consistency of breadcrumbs)
· 200g of white chocolate buttons

To serve:
1-2 scoops of macadamia ice-cream per person
½ ladle of chocolate sauce
1 chocolate sail per person
Or
4 passionfruit
Fresh fruit: 1 punnet of strawberries, or 10 lychies, or 1 mango

Method:

1. Whisk the eggs and sugar until thick and pale.

2. Gently fold in condensed milk, then add melted chocolate and mixed dry ingredients.

3. Fold in the white chocolate buttons.

4. Place mixture into a lined lamington tin. Bake at 160º for 30 to 40 minutes or until golden.

5. To serve, top slice with scoop of ice-cream. Drizzle of chocolate sauce and top with chocolate sail (melt chocolate, spread onto baking paper and, just before it sets, cut into triangles. OR to serve as tropical slice, drizzle slice and ice-cream with passionfruit and garnish with fresh fruit- top with white chocolate sail.

6. To make chocolate sauce, cut 185g dark chocolate into small pieces and place in a bowl. Bring 300ml cream to the boil in a saucepan. Remove from heat and pour over chocolate. Whisk together until smooth and all chocolate has melted. ENJOY ENJOY ENJOY I strongly recommend only using white chocolate and keeping an eye on the microwave during the melting process of same.