I really didn’t have to hunt around for too long to find this month’s Secret Recipe Club recipe. I was paired up with the lovely laden from Sew You Think You Can Cook. A blogging Momma from Los Angeles with 2 beautiful boys. Lauren’s blog is predominantly food inspired, with a healthy addition of craft and travel in there too.
Lauren is currently taking part in Choctoberfest through October (obviously) so many of her posts are chocolate inspired. Her recipe for Halloween White Chocolate & Raisin Bars posted just last week, caught my eye and I knew the Costello girls would like to try it.
I only made a slight change to the original post – I used a very thin covering of white chocolate with Halloween inspired chocolate beans as decoration on the top. This was a really quick recipe and perfect for after school snacks. My girls are full of colds at the moment and feeling a bit sorry for themselves – we are desperate for a break from school madness. An after school easy traybake was just the thing to cheer them up. Not that half term is going to be any less chaotic – Millie is training pretty much constantly in Aldershot and then competing in Glasgow next weekend.
White Chocolate & Raisin Bars
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| Serves | 10+ |
| Prep time | 15 minutes |
| Cook time | 20 minutes |
| Total time | 35 minutes |
| Meal type | Dessert, Snack |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold |
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Plain Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/4 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Soft Dark Brown Sugar
- 1 Medium Egg
- 4oz Softened Butter
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 100 + 50g White Chocolate (Chopped into small chunks)
- 1 handful Raisins
- 2 Small Packs of Halloween coloured Chocolate beans
Note
These can be frozen - best to do so before adding the chocolate beans. Allow to defrost at room temperature for approx 4 hours.
I used dark soft brown sugar so they are quite dark - light brown soft sugar will obviously make them lighter but still be gorgeous.
I only added a handful of raisins as my girls are not that keen, more raisins or even some hazelnuts taste wonderful.
Directions
| Traybake | |
| 1. | |
| Line a 9" square cake tin and preheat the oven to 180C | |
| 2. | |
| Using an electric whisk, beat together the sugar, butter, egg and vanilla until well combined | |
| 3. | |
| Gently fold in the flour, baking powder & salt | |
| 4. | |
| Then add 100g of the chopped white chocolate and the raisins | |
| 5. | |
| Spread evenly into the cake tin and bake for 20 mins. Leave to cool before cutting | |
| Decoration | |
| 6. | |
| Melt the remaining white chocolate by putting in a glass mixing bowl over a pan of simmering water (do not allow the base of the bowl to touch the water) and spread over the top of the traybake | |
| 7. | |
| Add the chocolate beans while the white chocolate is still tacky to help them stick | |
| 8. | |
| Cut into squares and enjoy! | |
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I hope your girls feel better! We’re going through the cold cycle right now, too. I’m glad you liked the bars.
They are getting there, thank you! Just waiting for them to pass it all around the family :-). The bars have gone down so well – thanks for sharing the recipe x
Perfect to make anyone feel better.
Definitely! The phrase, ‘feed a cold’ is a winner in this house!
What a fun holiday treat! I love the idea of white chocolate and raisins in these bars and your idea to add more hazelnuts definitely gets my vote!
I’m thinking a hazelnut batch will be born before the week is out in our house!
Love this fun tray bake,, looks so moist and delicious:-)
Was deceptively light too – Definitely a fun and stress free bake 🙂
Well I’m holding a fundraising Halloween bake sale so will keep this traybake in mind for sure!
This would be perfect for a fundraiser -So easy to cater for the masses. Good luck with it x
Oh wow these sound absolutely delicious – I have to admit I love white chocolate, so I really need to try these! x
Yum!! My kids would love these bars and they’re just perfect for Halloween!
Delicious, I like the white coating on top, reminds me of webs. Thanks for sharing x
I like the sound of these chocolate and raisin bars. Looks yummy.
Looks like a yummy tray bake, my son would so love to eat all this!
Im in the states at the moment and my suitcase coming home will be full of Halloween candy. This recipe will be perfect to use some up.
Whilst I am not a huge fan of white chocolate these do sound amazing!!
Wow this Halloween white chocolate raisin bar looks divine and it would be perfect for any party!
mmm yummy! I love a good traybake, especially one with lots of chocolate & raisins! YES PLEASE
This looks so yummy and I think white chocolate makes a really good pairing x
What a fun idea! I think the white chocolate was a really nice touch. These bars sound great.
These bars look more beautiful than scary! Delicious treat…
Oh yes! My boys would love these!! I want to bake with them in time for halloween so these shall be on the list!
As soon as I go shopping and get some baking powder I’m giving this recipe a try, it looks delicious. I cannot beleive I have run out of both baking powder and self-raising flour!
These sound delicious – I might have to make some in case any trick or treaters drop by!
Wishing your girls a quick recovery and this Bars look absolutely delicious, definitely inspiring me to bake this weekend
Ooh these look delicious. I’m not the best baker but I think it looks a pretty easy recipe xx
These look delicious and so quick to make!
YUM! Sure they’d make me feel better if I was ill. Hope they get well soon!
What a great recipe! We might try and make some of these for my Halloween party!
This looks so good and I don’t even like white chocolate! Will definitely be trying this out with dark chocolate instead though 🙂 x
They look and sound absolutely amazing, to be honest you had me at white chocolate.
These look really yummy what a great idea, I’d love to try them myself.
My children would love making and eating these, they look like the perfect Halloween treat! We are more than ready for half term here too!
Oh wow these look delicious! I am so going to be making these next week, thanks for a fab recipe
These look amazing, I must try them. Hope your girls are feeling better! xo
These look so lovely and delicious. I like white chocolate on cakes.
Very cool idea and it looks so delicious. Thanks for sharing!