In the pursuit for the perfect Blondies I came across a recipe which I modified a lot.The result is just mind blowing. A special shout out goes to Trader Joe’s for selling ahd preparing the nuts in just the right way.
Ingredients:
1 cup brown sugar
1 stick of butter
1 large egg
1/2 tsp almond extract
pinch of salt
1 cup flour
1/2 cup chopped pecans dry roasted unsalted (Trader Joe’s)
1/2 cup of cranberries (Trader Joe’s)
1/2 cup of Pistachio Nutmeats Dry Roasted & unsalted (Trader Joe’s)
(total of 1 1/2 cups of dried fruits)
And for the last touch – Not part of the nuts mixture:
2/3 honey roasted Almonds (Trader Joe’s)
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F. butter pan (I used 7×11″ pyrex pan)
- Melt butter in a large bowl.
- Add the sugar.
- Mix one egg (make sure the mixture id cool before you add the egg)
- Mix almond extract
- Mix flour and salt.
- Mix in the 2 cup of nuts
- Pour mixture into prepared pan, and use a spoon to even out the dough
- Cover the dough evenly with the almonds. Use your hands to pat the almonds into the dough.
Bake for 25 minutes (or more, I use convection oven).
The bars are ready when the center is no longer wet.
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In previous versions I have used 1/2 cup white chocolate chip, 1/2 cup chopped toasted pecans and 1/2 cup cranberries. It was too sweet for my liking, but others raved…