Toblerone Brownies - AlphaBakes

This month's AlphaBakes Challenge is the letter T, which I found more difficult than expected. Apart from Tea, I couldn't think of many ingredients beginning with the letter, and it's not a huge section of the index of most of my baking books either - or at least, not for sweet baking. In addition, I'm fast running out of time for any of my usual baking challenges this month, so had to somehow fit this one into something I wanted to bake anyway.

I wanted to bake a batch of brownies for CT to take back to his place for the weekend, so was pleased when inspiration suddenly struck, and I remembered Toblerone. Little did I realise that it's very hard to get hold of Toblerone outside of Christmas or Father's Day - where are the plain and white varieties that are around then?

I adapted my usual low saturated fat brownie recipe to accentuate the almond and honey flavours of Toblerone - I replaced 50g of the white caster sugar with honey, 30g of the flour with ground almonds and used a few drops of almond extract instead of vanilla. I added a chopped 100g bar of milk Toblerone instead of any other chocolate or nuts, and sprinkled on a few flaked almonds before baking.

This was an interesting variation, but I had wanted to use dark and white Toblerone for a better visual effect, and I wasn't too sure that I liked the use of honey in the batter - the flavour wasn't quite right for my tastes although no-one else mentioned it.

AlphaBakes is a monthly challenge hosted alternately by Caroline from Caroline Makes, and Ros from The More Than Occasional Baker. The challenge is to use the randomly chosen letter as a main ingredient or part of the name of the product you make. This month T was chosen by Ros, who will publish a round-up of entries at the end of the month. The general rules can be found here.