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How to Make Blondies: Easy Chocolate Chips Blondie Recipe

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Last updated: Jun 9, 2024 • 2 min read

Blondies are a dessert similar to brownies but without the chocolaty flavor and appearance. Learn how to make blondies you can enjoy plain or serve with vanilla ice cream and fresh raspberries.

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What Are Blondies?

Blondies—short for blonde brownies—are a baked dessert that omits the cocoa powder in traditional brownies. Sweet, chewy, and buttery blondies look more like cookie bars than brownies, especially with the addition of chocolate chips.

4 Ingredients to Mix Into Blondies

Just as it’s common to mix additional ingredients into brownies, it’s popular to do the same for blondie recipes. Here are four ideas for add-ins the next time you make blondies:

  1. 1. Chocolate chips: Turn your blondies into chocolate chip cookie bars by adding white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, or semisweet chocolate chips for additional sweetness and flavor.
  2. 2. Cream cheese: Sweeten cream cheese with sugar or maple syrup, and whip it until it’s light and fluffy. Swirl the cream cheese into the blondie mixture in the baking dish. The result will be similar to a cheesecake swirl blondie, but you won’t have to make a cheesecake batter.
  3. 3. Dried fruit: While fresh fruit releases moisture during the cooking process, dried fruit can add a tart flavor and chewy texture to blondies without affecting the dessert’s moisture content. Mix dried cranberries, cherries, dates, or figs right into the blondie batter.
  4. 4. Nuts: Roasted and salted nuts—such as pistachios, pecans, walnuts, and peanuts—add crunch to blondies. Mix nuts into the batter or chop them up and sprinkle them over the mixture before you bake your dessert.

Brown Butter Blondies Recipe

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makes

9

prep time

20 min

total time

45 min

cook time

25 min

Ingredients

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

  2. 2

    Grease an 8-inch-by-8-inch pan with nonstick cooking spray and then line it with parchment paper.

  3. 3

    In a large bowl, combine all-purpose flour, baking powder, salt, and chocolate chips.

  4. 4

    In a saucepan on the stove over medium-low heat, melt the butter.

  5. 5

    Continue to cook the melted butter until it stops foaming and turns golden brown.

  6. 6

    Transfer the brown butter to a separate large bowl.

  7. 7

    Mix in the brown sugar and granulated sugar.

  8. 8

    Add the large eggs, one at a time, mixing thoroughly between additions.

  9. 9

    Add the vanilla extract.

  10. 10

    With a wooden spoon, mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture.

  11. 11

    Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread it into an even layer.

  12. 12

    Bake the blondies until a toothpick comes out clean, about 25 minutes.

  13. 13

    Cool the blondies to room temperature in the baking pan.

  14. 14

    Cut the blondies into 9 equal pieces and serve them at room temperature.

  15. 15

    Store leftover blondies in an airtight container.

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