Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, peanut butter blondies. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Peanut Butter Blondies is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Peanut Butter Blondies is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook peanut butter blondies using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Peanut Butter Blondies:
- Take 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
- Make ready 2 cups brown sugar (light or dark)
- Take 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- Prepare 2 large eggs
- Get 1 egg yolk (from large egg)
- Take 1 tbsp. vanilla extract (pure recommended)
- Take 2 cups all purpose flour
- Take 1 tsp. baking powder
- Get 1 tsp. salt
- Get 1 1/4 cup optional add in (see below)
- Take Add In Options :
- Prepare ·Reese'sPieces
- Prepare ·chocolate chips (dark, milk chocolate or semi-sweet)
- Make ready ·white chocolate chips
- Make ready ·M&Ms
- Get ·caramel chips (what I used, pictured in step 4)
Instructions to make Peanut Butter Blondies:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 9x13" pan with parchment paper, leaving it hanging slightly over the side (this will make it easy to lift out of the pan to cut) and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the melted, cooled butter and brown sugar until combined. Then whisk in the 2 eggs and the yolk. Next, whisk in the vanilla extract.
- Add the flour, baking powder and salt to the bowl. Fold everything together with a rubber spatula. Batter will be thick.
- Next, fold in whatever add in you'd like to use (some suggestions in the ingredient list). For the ones pictured, I used Hershey's Kitchens Sea Salt Caramel Chips, pictured –>
- Spread the batter into your prepared baking pan. For prettier blondies, press a few additional of whatever you mixed in, onto the top of the batter.
- Bake for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean, but with just a few moist crumbs on it (similar to when you make brownies). After the 30 minute mark, if they're not done yet, check every couple of minutes, so they don't overbake.
- Once the pan is removed from the oven, place on a wire rack. Allow to cool completely before cutting them into squares.
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
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