Snickers centered Blondie

Blondies have been on my "to make" list for a while now, as I love brown sugar. One of Mr X's favourite chocolate bars is a snickers, so I decided to create a two layer blondie with a caramel snickers filling.

This recipe is easy and comes together pretty quickly. I was originally going to just use one batch of the blondie recipe, spread half out in the baking pan, add a layer of caramel snickers sauce, then top it with the remaining mixture. I realised pretty quickly that it wouldn't work though - the recipe did not make as much mixture as I had anticipated! So (panicking), I popped the first blondie in the oven and while that was baking I whipped up a second one.

The caramel when cooking smelt amazing... It was very tempting to just eat spoonfuls of it straight out of the saucepan...
Ingredients:
Caramel snickers sauce
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/8 cup milk
3/4 tsp vanilla extract
6 fun sized snickers, chopped

Blondie (Recipe from Simply Recipes - I doubled original recipe. Single blondie ingredients below)
1/2 cup of butter, melted
1 cup of tightly packed dark brown sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon of baking soda
1 cup of all-purpose flour
1/3 cup of chocolate chips

Method:
Caramel snickers sauce

Over medium heat, melt butter in a small sauce pan. Allow to simmer, then add in the brown sugar, stirring, and bring to boil. Then lower heat and stir until sugar is dissolved (should take about a minute). Stir in milk, bring to boil, then remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. 

Leave to cool for 5-10 minutes, then mix in half the snickers and stir well (they will melt a little). Leave to cool down while you make the first blondie, then add the remaining snickers and mix).

Blondie
Preheat the oven to 176°C. Brush 20cm square pan with melted butter and a sprinkling of flour. 

Beat melted butter and brown sugar in a bowl until fluffy.
Add a lightly whisked egg and vanilla extract and beat to combine.
Add in flour, baking soda, baking powder and mix until just combined. Add the chocolate and mix.
Pour into pan and spread evenly.

Bake for 20-25 minutes or until set in middle but still soft (it will firm up on cooling). 

Leave to cool for 10 minutes, then tip onto a plate. While still warm, spread caramel snickers sauce over top.

Bake the second blondie. Once cooled, carefully remove from pan and place carefully on top of first blondie. This is where I went wrong. Mr X had organised for us to go to the pub for drinks and I was fast running out of time. So, in my haste, this happened....