Blondie Squares Recipes

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour baking pan, knocking out excess flour.
• Pour boiling-hot water over dried fruit in a small bowl and soak 20 minutes, then drain well in a sieve.
• Stir together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in another bowl.
• Beat together melted butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until creamy, about 1 minute. Reduce speed to low, then add flour mixture and mix until just combined. Mix in dried fruit, almonds, and chocolate.
• Spread batter evenly in baking pan and bake until golden brown and a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool completely in pan on a rack. Run a thin knife around edges of pan to loosen blondie, then cut blondie into roughly 3-inch squares.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour an 8 x 12 x 2 inch baking pan.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar on high speed for 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low, add the vanilla, then the eggs, one at a time, and mix well, scraping down the bowl. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt and with the mixer still on low, slowly add flour mixture to the butter mixture. Fold the walnuts and chocolate chunks in with a rubber spatula.
• Spread the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake for 30 minutes exactly. Don't overbake! A toothpick may not come out clean. Cool completely in the pan and cut into bars.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour 9 x 13-inch baking pan. In a small sauce pan melt the butter. Put the light brown sugar in a large bowl, add the butter, and stir to combine. Cool to room temperature. Beat in the eggs and vanilla. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add the flour mixture into the wet ingredients, mixing just until a smooth batter is formed. If using the chips, stir them into the batter. Transfer the batter to the prepared pan. Bake until lightly browned and toothpick inserted in the center come out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool the blondies in the pan slightly before inverting them onto a cooling rack. Cool completely. Cut into 8 squares and serve.
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Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the brown sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla just until blended. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to brown sugar mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. , Spread into a greased 13x9-in. baking pan. Bake at 350° until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 18-20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Cut into bars.

Steps:

• Butter one 10X15X1 jelly-roll pan, and line with parchment or foil paper.
• Set a rack at the middle level of the oven, and preheat to 350.
• In a mixing bowl,stir together flour, salt, and baking soda.
• Beat the butter with the sugars until combines.
• beat in the eggs, one at a time, and finally the vanilla extract.
• Stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture, then the nuts and the chips.
• Spread the batter in the prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes, until well risen and firm to the touch.
• Cool in the pan on a rack.
• After cake is cool, invert onto a cutting board and peel away the paper.
• Cut into 2-inch squares.
• Storage: keep the blondies in a tin or plastic container with a tight-fitting lid.
• Or wrap individually and freeze in a tightly closed plastic container.