Blondies are very similar to my beloved Chocolate Chip Cookie bars, but are made with all brown sugar and zero leavening agents (like baking soda). This results in a consistently soft, doughy, chewy cookie packed with flavor in every bite! Blondies are a go-to in our house because I almost always have the basic ingredients. This recipe calls for a trio of chip flavors, but that is entirely customizable. If you don’t have those on hand, feel free to use any ratio of any combo of chips you like, including just a standard bag of only chocolate chips! Because these start with melted butter, they’re super easy to whip up in a single bowl with only a hand mixer, or even just a spoon. They’re rich and sweet and gooey, and once you try them, they’ll be your new favorite thing.
Ingredients and Equipment
- Butter – I recommend real butter for all baking. If you need to substitute a plant-based butter for dietary purposes, feel free. I’ve never tried that, but I think it should work just fine!
- Brown Sugar- This recipe uses all brown sugar and no white sugar for a moist, chewy texture.
- Eggs – Use large or extra large eggs.
- Vanilla Extract – Pure or imitation vanilla extract works great.
- Flour – Use all purpose white flour. Weighing the flour will give you the most accurate measurement. If you use measuring cups, lightly scoop flour and spoon into cups before leveling with a knife.
- Chips – As stated before, feel free to use any combination of chips you like!
- Flaky Sea Salt – This step is optional, but I really love finishing off my blondies with a light sprinkle of flaky salt. It balances the sweetness and adds a complexity to the overall flavor.
Instructions
This recipe calls for equal parts chocolate chips (I always use semisweet or dark in baking recipes to balance the sweetness), white chocolate chips, and peanut butter chips, but you can use any ratio of any combination you like, including simply a standard bag of chocolate chips only!
- Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9×13″ pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Melt butter in a large mixing bowl. Add brown sugar and mix to combine. Add the vanilla and the eggs and beat until combined.
- Add the flour and mix until just combined. Add the chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and peanut butter or butterscotch chips and mix until combined.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared pan. I like to sprinkle a few extra chips on top for presentation, and then bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until set and slightly golden brown on top.
- Right when they come out of the oven, sprinkle lightly with flaky salt, if desired.
- Allow to cool completely (No really!) Blondies are best when they are cooled so the doughy centers can set up. If you are going to eat them warm, I’d do them in a bowl with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How should I store blondies? Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a few days.
- Can these be frozen? Yes! Baked goods like cookies and blondies freeze well. Let them cool completely and then wrap well and store in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Triple Chip Blondies
Ingredients
- 1 cup 2 sticks salted butter
- 2 cups 400g light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups 260g all-purpose flour, lightly spooned into a measuring cup and leveled with the back of a knife
- 2/3 cup semisweet or dark chocolate chips*
- 2/3 cup white chocolate chips
- 2/3 cup peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips
- Optional: sprinkle of flaky salt
- Optional: A few extra chips to sprinkle on top if you've got enough
- *2 cups of whatever combo of chips you have. You can of course make these with a standard bag of a single flavor as well!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Line a 9×13″ pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large mixing bowl. Add the brown sugar and mix to combine. Add the vanilla and the eggs and beat until combined.
- Add the flour and mix until just combined. Add the chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and peanut butter or butterscotch chips and mix until combined.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared pan. I like to sprinkle a few extra chips on top for presentation, and then bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until set and slightly golden brown on top.
- Right when they come out of the oven, sprinkle lightly with flaky salt, if desired.
- Allow to cool completely (No really!) Blondies are best when they are cooled so the doughy centers can set up. If you are going to eat them warm, I'd do them in a bowl with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Questions & Reviews
These tasted pretty good – definitely sweet. I think the brown sugar might have been a bit too much (or maybe it was the chocolate chips). My 8 year old commented that she couldn’t eat her whole serving (a 2″ x 1″ rectangle) so it had to be pretty sweet. And the cooking time was off as well, as some of the other reviewers have commented. I put them back in the oven twice for about 8 extra minutes of cooking time and they finally firmed up. Overall they were okay, not my favorite. But this site is still GREAT!!! 🙂
OK, I made these today, and they were amazing! I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the “newish” Nancy Drew movie, but there’s a scene in there where she is in the lunchroom at her school, and she whips out a placemat and cloth napkin to eat her lunch and enjoy her homemade blondie. It’s funny. She also bribes people to give her clues and information by offering them a homemade blondie.
These could be bribe-worthy. 😉 After seeing that some people had problems with them being too soft, I thought I’d try to refrigerate the dough before baking to firm it up for a couple of hours. They probably would’ve been fine either way, but I baked them for 26 minutes, and they were perfect. Thanks for another winning recipe!
These were So. Good. I halved the recipe, because this 34 week pregnant woman did not need to eat a whole 9×13 of blondies. And yes, I would! I also found that I didn’t have quite a 1/3 c of chocolate chips. (blame it on the pregger…) so a 8×8 was perfect. My husband and I both loved them. My dog even seemed to enjoy the taste she snagged before I almost beat her.
Thanks for filling my life with great food.
I cried and cried when my con started Kindergarten. He started EIGHTH grade last week….insert sobbing here.
These bars looks like just the ticket to drown my sorrows…and maybe pack in his lunch box. 😉
I hear ya! My youngest started kindergarten two weeks ago. I spent the first day a little teary-eyed but I kind of got used to the quiet on the second day. By the third day I was telling myself to enjoy it while it lasted because the kids would be home soon. You see where I’m going with this…
I worry that I might have over baked mine but it was hard to tell when the center went from raw to done. Otherwise it was a super easy recipe that I hope was as good as it sounded and looked!!
I make Toll House blonde brownies with double chocolate chips and it never occurred to me to use butterscotch chips. What… I’m gonna have to try this. Btw, there’s no such thing as too sweet. 🙂
I seemed to have the same problem as other posters, that they were raw in the middle. After lots of thought, I think that maybe I over mixed the batter/dough. Mine was also very creamy before I placed them into the oven. This has happend before with the tollhouse cc cookie mix, and the cookies turn out very different if not overmixed. I used the mixer to add in the flour. Your dough seems thicker and more like paste, mine was like thick pancake batter. I will try again tonight, keeping in mind to treat the batter/dough like muffins! I’m also going to try heath bits like April says instead of one of the chips.
Way. too. sweet. Obnoxiously sweet. I didn’t know that was even possible, because I’m totally a sweet freak. I made this recipe with butterscotch chips. If I try this again, then I might use PB chips….and then PB and chocolate drizzle instead.
Yeah, generally speaking, butterscotch chips are too sweet for me, plus you get a lot of those same flavored from the brown sugar, so I can see how that would be a lot. 🙂
I made these the past weekend – very VERY delicious! My family is crazy about it! My husband asked that I should PLEASE make it again. So, thanks for an incredible recipe!