Blondie Recipe

Bar recipes are one of my favorite desserts to make because they are so easy. You get all the deliciousness of cookies without worrying about scooping and rolling. Besides that, you can be just a little less precise with bars because you don’t have to consider how the cookies will spread.

Just about any of your favorite cookie recipes can be tossed into a pan and made into bars. But let’s start with these amazing melt in your mouth blondies! These are buttery soft and delicious, made perfect with the great taste of white chocolate thrown into the mix.

How to Make Blondies

Here is a brief overview of how this blondie brownies recipe comes together. For the full recipe including all measurements, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of the page.

• Combine dry ingredients. Whisk together the flour, salt, and baking powder.
• Mix wet ingredients. Cream together the brown sugar and butter until it is light and fluffy using a stand mixer or hand mixer. Mix in the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla.
• Combine wet and dry ingredients. Add in the flour mixture. Be careful not to overmix.
• Fold in white chocolate chips. Spread the batter into the baking dish and bake.

Best Pan For Bars

This pan is my very favorite for making bars. Because it is made from metal (rather than glass or ceramic), it conducts heat better, leading to a better bar.

I like to cut a piece of parchment paper that runs the length of the pan, and a second piece of parchment paper that runs the width. The two together will allow you to pull the bars right out of the pan when they are finished and cut 24 even-sized bars. (See the photo below.)

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This is the perfect baking dish for dessert bars. It allows you to cut perfect squares from the whole pan. And these bars will cook perfectly in it.

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Measuring and Mixing Flour

Measuring flour correctly is a make or break step in all baking recipes. Getting too much or too little in your blondie brownie recipe will completely change it. Follow these steps to get the right amount of flour every time:

• Whisk the flour in the bag or container it’s stored in.
• Use a spoon to scoop the flour from its container into the measuring cup. Do not scoop it with the measuring cup.
• Use the back of a spatula to smooth it.

Tips and Tricks

• Measure your flour correctly. This is so important in all baking recipes, it gets its own section above.
• Let your butter cool. If you combine piping hot butter with eggs in the batter, the eggs will start cooking. We want to avoid that.
• Make sure your baking powder is fresh. To test its freshness, add a little water to it. It should bubble right away. If it doesn’t, replace it. Baking powder needs to be replaced every six months. Also, make sure you use baking powder and NOT baking soda.
• Add your dry ingredients to the wet ingredients all at once. Rather than adding a little at a time, add it all at once, mixing it slowly at first so it doesn’t go everywhere, and then turning it up and mixing just until the flour disappears. This lowers the risk of overstimulating the gluten which can lead to dense bars.
• Change the mix-ins. You can swap some or all of the white chocolate chips for milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, or butterscotch chips. Chopped walnuts would also be delicious and add some crunch.

Other Bar Recipes

Enjoy a blondies bar with a glass of Iced Coffee and you have a perfect afternoon treat. Here are some other great and simple bar recipes:

• When I want a refreshing treat, these Lemon Bars are my go-to.
• Monster Cookie Bars are super easy to make and fun to make with kids!
• The name describes it best! These Magic Bars are seven layers of pure deliciousness.