It’s my favorite brown butter blondie batter with a generous quantity of mini Ghriardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips and a swirl of salted caramel baked right in the blondie. And then more salted caramel drizzled all over the top.
It’s not the tidiest of desserts. In fact, it’s four napkins messy maybe five if you got a leetle carried away with the caramel sauce.
And you should get carried away with the caramel sauce because…why not?!
I made these with the last little bit of the BEST salted caramel sauce because eating it all with a spoon wasn’t an option. Or, at least, it wasn’t the civil thing to do.
If you could pick one thing to eat on your diet “cheat day”, this would be it.
Worth. Every. Last. Caramel-filled. Bite.
[Do you have a “cheat day”? I never allowed myself to have one because then it became a “cheat week” or month if we’re being honest.]
That caramel…
Make it stop!
I’m going to pass out.
These sensational Caramel Chocolate Chip Blondies have a brown butter blondie base with chocolate chips and caramel baked into the batter and more salted caramel drizzled on top!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ cup (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup Ghirardelli mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2/3 cups caramel sauce [the best recipe for homemade here]
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Generously butter a 13x9x2 inch glass or pyrex baking pan.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat, swirling several times a minute, until browned bits cling to the bottom of the pan and the butter takes on a slightly nutty aroma. Transfer brown butter to a medium bowl. Be sure to get all the nutty goodness from the pan!
- Add brown sugar and beat, with an electric mixer, until well combined and mixture resembles wet sand, 2-3 minutes.
- Add eggs and vanilla; beat until fluffy, 2 minutes. Add dry ingredients and beat until smooth. The batter will be very thick.
- Fold in mini chocolate chips. Turn out into prepared baking dish.
- Using an offset spatula, evenly spread batter in pan.
- Pour caramel into dish and, using an offset spatula, swirl it into the batter. You will let your caramel cool to room temperature before swirling; unlike me, or it will kind of melt into the batter. Delicious but not quite the look I was going for.
- Bake blondie until golden brown or the center no longer jiggles when gently shaken, 20-25 minutes. The toothpick test will not work here because of all the mix-ins. Be careful not to over bake! Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack.
Notes:
As an alternative to making your own caramel sauce, you can melt Werther's caramels with milk and salt in the microwave following the instructions found here
My only 8x8 pan (I halved the recipe above) was being taken by these Reese’s PB Blondies, so I baked it in a pyrex loaf pan. This was a bad idea, and it is not something I will repeat. Just know that if you use a normal pan your brownies will not be as awkwardly thick or uneven.
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15 Comments
Kayle (The Cooking Actress)
April 5, 2014 at 8:52 amOMG SHUT UUUUP WITH THAT CARAMEL SAUCE ON TOP!!!! Aand it’s swirled in the batter???! *dies*
Lindsey
April 5, 2014 at 8:57 amlol! I know! It’s death by caramel!
Christin@SpicySouthernKitchen
April 5, 2014 at 9:23 amThis really is death by caramel! And I’m loving it! Looks so moist and rich. Pinning!
Lindsey
April 5, 2014 at 9:26 amThanks for the pin, Christin! They are todiefor!
Stephanie @ Girl Versus Dough
April 5, 2014 at 1:34 pmI could stare at photos of drizzling caramel all.day.long. SO YUM.
Lindsey
April 5, 2014 at 8:53 pmSeriously, right?! When I was editing the photos, I could hardly contain myself!
Judit |Wine Dine Daily
April 5, 2014 at 7:30 pmLooks absolutely decadent! Mmm love all that glorious caramelious mess 🙂
Lindsey
April 5, 2014 at 8:52 pmThank you! They are a wonderful mess!
Liz
April 7, 2014 at 6:59 pmWhoa, these look AMAZING!!! Love, love that dripping caramel!
Lindsey
April 8, 2014 at 11:40 amThanks, Liz!! 🙂 You made my day!
Laura @ Laura's Culinary Adventures
April 10, 2014 at 3:31 pmTidy desserts are for whimps!
Lindsey
April 10, 2014 at 4:35 pmLol! I totally agree!
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