Random recipe: Luxury Turkish delight brownies

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Ingredients;

150g good quality milk cooking chocolate

 175g butter

450g light brown sugar

3 eggs

200g flour

1 and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbs rose water

150g roast nuts (I used the Tesco finest luxury selection which had pecans, almonds, hazelnuts, macadamias and pistachios in it, nom..)

Directions;

Pre-heat your oven to 180C

Melt the butter and chocolate together over a low heat

Add the sugar to the butter and chocolate, stirring to dissolve

Beat the eggs and stir into the batter

Add the whole roast nuts, vanilla and rosewater and mix

Sift in your flour and mix until just combined

Pour the mix into a well greased tray and bake for 20-25 minutes (or until a knife comes out clean)

Cut into squares and cool on a wire rack.

I made these for my sister's husbands family on a recent visit of theirs to Ireland, rosewater is a bit of an obsession of mine (I've tried adding it to nearly everything at some point, even tea!) and along with the extravagant nut mix really makes this a very special brownie recipe. It's amazing how much these taste like Turkish delight! I borrowed the lovely photo up top, I'm not a fan of using other peoples photography on blogs as a rule (it seems really impersonal and emotionless to me) but it is actually so hard to photograph brownies well and it just wasn't happening for me at the time (I really tried, they just looked so awful, totally unworthy of the recipe) so I made an exception this time, plus it's a really pretty picture :)

P.S. This is Pumpkin. He's a little poorly but with much love, nursing and trips to the vet is hopefully well on his way to better days. He has a pink nose and loves having his tummy rubbed. I grabbed him off the middle of a busy main road last night. Some of the photos are a little blurry because he's in quarantine in our bathroom and the light in their sucks for photos, but fear not there will be many more adorable kitten photos in the future! So much for our not getting any more kittens and getting the travel the world one day plan. Oh well, life's too short not to have kittens at least some of the time :)