This week’s bake (which was made and eaten on a Tuesday by the way!) caught my attention as it contains brown butter – I know its the ingredient of the moment but I’m fascinated by adapting recipes to include brown butter rather than normal.
To Brown Butter:
Place how ever much butter you need in a small saucepan and heat up on a medium heat.
I stir with a rubber spatula until the butter is melted.
Leave for about 4 minutes, swirling the pan around – The butter will be bubbling but you are looking out for it to fluff up.
After about 5 seconds of the butter becoming really fluffy, a brown spot will appear in the centre.
REMOVE FROM THE HEAT STRAIGHTAWAY!
You will have sediment at the bottom of the pan, this is part of the brown butter mixture.
The difference between brown butter and black butter is just a couple of seconds, but miles apart in taste.
The Brown Butter & Vanilla Weekend Cake is basically an extra tasty madeira cake (Pound cake in the US) – The instructions say the flavour deepens if left for 24 hours before eating – Ha! As if! I did split the mixture into a large loaf and mini loaves which were super cute.
Oh, I love the shape and crumb of your cake slices. They look just perfect. Lots of great looking food in this post!
Thank you! Tasted alright too 🙂 x
I love your cake. Thanks for the browning butter tips! Those hand pies look soooo delicious.
Everything looks good – especialy those pear hand pies!
I have been making brownies with browned butter for a few years and I love the subtle depth of flavor that brings.
What a wonderful cake!!
I’ve never made brown butter, and you definitely put me in the mood!! i must try ti 🙂
Thanks for explaining how to make it 🙂
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And thanks for featuring my Heart shaped Raspberry Whoopie Pies
Your mini loaves are adorable! And look at all of those other delicious baked goods.
ok, those little cakes are darling! and everything else looks delish, too.
I am a big fan of browned/ caramelized butter so after making this I found one of the other bloggers in the TWD group uses it on trout…I had not thought of it outside of baking with it. Now, I will be trying his recipe next week.
hip hip hooray for caramelized butter!
Happy baking.
Oooh this looks so delicious! I bet it goes perfect with a good cuppa x
I’ve not even heard of brown butter before! Think I need to go and do some research x
How is every member of your family not the size of a house?! Everything looks delicious, as always, but I do particularly like the look of those pear and vanilla pies 🙂 #ShareFriday
I’m glad you explained how to make brown butter as i was just thinking I’d never seen it in the shops! x x
These look gorgeous. Everything you bake looks so yummy!
Oh wow, dreamy. Thanks for linking up to #brilliantblogposts, do link up to #tastytuesdays too if you fancy it x
Great recipe, and a fab explanation of brown butter. I found you through Brilliant Blog Posts, I don’t cook or eat a lot of sweet things but I’m going to have a nose at your Monkfish Linguini as that also sounds awesome.
Wow that looks really delicious! I love baking with brown butter it adds such a unique moreish taste to everything! This cake is right up my street #CookBlogShare
Mini-cakes! Want! Also all of those other treats too. They all look fab!
This cake is perfect for mini loaves – especially since it’s so liable to disappear quickly!
Beautiful!