The GüdDish Blondies

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Blondies. The GüdDish.

Serves 16 squares · 15–20 min prep · 45–60 min total · 3 steps

Ingredients

Ingredients for Blondies
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 3/4 cup chocolate chips
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt

What the best recipes taught us

  • Stop mixing when the flour disappears. If you keep beating the batter, the bars will be tough.
  • Pull them when a toothpick still has a few crumbs. If you wait until it comes out clean, they will dry out.

Method

  1. 1
    Greased 8-inch square pan beside a bowl of melted butter, brown sugar, and two eggs
    1/2cunsalted butter, melted
    1cbrown sugar
    2 largeeggs
    2tspvanilla extract

    Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square pan.

    Melt the butter. In a bowl, whisk it with the brown sugar until smooth.

    Whisk in the eggs and vanilla.

  2. 2
    Blondie batter with chocolate chips being folded in the same bowl
    11/2call-purpose flour
    1tspbaking powder
    1/2tspkosher salt
    3/4cchocolate chips

    Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt into the bowl just until the flour disappears.

    Fold the chocolate chips into the batter.

  3. 3
    Uncut golden chocolate-chip blondie slab cooling in the same 8-inch square pan

    Spread in the pan. Bake until the top is golden brown and a toothpick comes out with a few crumbs, 25 to 30 minutes.

    Cool in the pan before you cut squares.