One pan, one baking dish.
These brown butter blondies have a glossy, crackly crust that breaks apart to reveal a soft, chewy, “barely baked” interior. After your butter is browned, you combine all your ingredients right there in the saucepan. Fast assembly and fewer dishes to wash help make this recipe a winner. It’s as easy as can be, and the brown butter gives these bars such an amazing depth of flavor. I promise these will turn into one of your favorite standby recipes! I used m&m’s and white chocolate chips for my add-ins, but you could really use any combination of candy or nuts.
Ingredients
- ½ cup lightly salted butter melted and browned
- ¾ cup granulated white sugar
- ¾ cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup white chocolate chips or other mix-in
- 1 ¾ cup m&m's or other candy of your choice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Grease a 9x13 glass baking dish.
- Melt butter in medium or large saucepan with heavy bottom. Continue cooking until color turns from yellow to light brown. Remove from heat immediately.
- Add sugars and stir thoroughly. Mixture will resemble wet sand. Let cool for 5 minutes.
- Add vanilla and eggs. Stir to thoroughly combine.
- Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir until just combined.
- Add white chocolate chips and 1 cup of the m&m's.
- Spoon the dough into prepared baking dish and spread evenly.
- Sprinkle remaining ¾ cup cup m&m's over the top.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes until edges are lightly browned.
Cost
The total cost of this recipe comes out at $8.32. If you analyze the ingredient breakdown in CakeBoss Software, you can see that over half that cost is coming from the white chocolate chips and the m&m’s. Yep, those are premium ingredients that really increase the cost to produce the recipe. CakeBoss helps you identify your high cost ingredients so you can really zone in on those high cost ingredients and consider alternatives. Consider buying in bulk, or using generic to reduce your out-of-pocket costs.
