Going Blonde for the Summer
OK -- I would never in a million years dye my hair blonde...but recently, for a Brownie Scout event, they requested our troop bring two pans of brownies for dessert. Knowing my kids don't eat chocolate, I volunteered to make a pan of blondies instead (I actually wasn't sure they would eat that, but I at least wanted to give them a non-chocolate option). I didn't have a specific recipe at that time -- I had one that required craisins (dried cranberries) that I figured I could omit in a pinch...then I found a recipe in my husband's High School 50th anniversary cook book (that his parents gave us one year). So... here are both recipes for your baking enjoyment (especially nundu_art
Cranberry Bars
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
12 oz. white chocolate chips (2 cups)
1/4 c margarine (1/2 stick)
1 cup dried cranberries
preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Grease 9x13inch baking dish
In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and set aside.
In small bowl with wire whisk, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla, set aside.
In medium saucepan, melt 1 cup chips with margarine over low heat stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, let cool slightly. While stirring chocolate mixture, slowly stir in egg mixture, then flour mixture until well blended. Stir in remaining chocolate chips and cranberries. Pour into prepared pan. Bake uncovered 35 minutes or until center springs back when lightly touched. Cool on wire rack. Cut into bars to serve.
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Blonde Brownies
1 1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 c flour, sifted
2 tsp baking soda
1 12 oz. package chocolate chips (I used white chocolate, the original recipe called for semi-sweet chocolate, which defeated the 'no chocolate' point).
In a large bowl, cream butter or margarine. Add sugars, and then beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. MIx together all dray ingredients, and add flour mixture slowly to the margarine/egg mixture with a spoon. Now fold chocolate chips into the batter. Bake in a greased 12 x 18 inch jelly roll pan* for 25 minutes at 350 deg F. Do not overbake.
(*I used 2 disposable 1/4 sheet cake pans they were 12x8 inches each, but worked great)
St. Thomas had two blondies at the Brownie Scout function and we had a pan left over, so he had another at our community pool family night tonight (I didn't go, because ConTessa was home with a fever -- but when he got back, St. T. make a point of telling me that he liked my 'vanilla brownies' -- no greater triumph than getting him to eat something new!).
Cranberry Bars
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
12 oz. white chocolate chips (2 cups)
1/4 c margarine (1/2 stick)
1 cup dried cranberries
preheat oven to 350 degrees F
Grease 9x13inch baking dish
In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder and set aside.
In small bowl with wire whisk, beat eggs, sugar and vanilla, set aside.
In medium saucepan, melt 1 cup chips with margarine over low heat stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, let cool slightly. While stirring chocolate mixture, slowly stir in egg mixture, then flour mixture until well blended. Stir in remaining chocolate chips and cranberries. Pour into prepared pan. Bake uncovered 35 minutes or until center springs back when lightly touched. Cool on wire rack. Cut into bars to serve.
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Blonde Brownies
1 1/2 cup butter or margarine
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
4 c flour, sifted
2 tsp baking soda
1 12 oz. package chocolate chips (I used white chocolate, the original recipe called for semi-sweet chocolate, which defeated the 'no chocolate' point).
In a large bowl, cream butter or margarine. Add sugars, and then beat in eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. MIx together all dray ingredients, and add flour mixture slowly to the margarine/egg mixture with a spoon. Now fold chocolate chips into the batter. Bake in a greased 12 x 18 inch jelly roll pan* for 25 minutes at 350 deg F. Do not overbake.
(*I used 2 disposable 1/4 sheet cake pans they were 12x8 inches each, but worked great)
St. Thomas had two blondies at the Brownie Scout function and we had a pan left over, so he had another at our community pool family night tonight (I didn't go, because ConTessa was home with a fever -- but when he got back, St. T. make a point of telling me that he liked my 'vanilla brownies' -- no greater triumph than getting him to eat something new!).