Sweet bar blondies are every little thing you’re keen on a few good blondie—candy, chewy, thick, and buttery—plus, they’re full of chopped chocolate sweet bars. They’re simple to organize, require minimal baking instruments and easy components, and are all the time a crowd pleaser. Use your favourite chocolate sweet bars for quite a lot of textures; a few of my favorites to incorporate are Snickers, Twix, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
I first printed this recipe in 2013, and after just a little re-testing through the years, my crew and I made enhancements so the blondies are thicker, chewier, and softer.
As a lot as I take pleasure in making do-it-yourself candies like chocolate truffles and peanut butter Easter eggs (or something from my sweet cookbook!), nobody can deny the comfort of the grocery retailer sweet aisle. Every time I’ve store-bought chocolate hanging round, it all the time appears to make its method right into a baking recipe. Snickers cheesecake, M&M cookies, peanut butter blossoms, Butterfinger cookies, and right this moment’s sweet bar blondies are a couple of prime locations!
Every little thing to Love About Sweet Bar Blondies
- Style: Brown sugar, butter, and chocolate. Every blondie is distinctly buttery, however to not the purpose the place the bars style greasy—an unlucky consequence for a lot of blondie recipes. I all the time take pleasure in utilizing sweet bars with caramel, nuts, or peanut butter in them, and suggest you strive the identical!
- Texture: These blondies are supremely mushy, chewy, and thick. Relying on the sweet you employ, count on quite a lot of textures in each chew.
- Ease: With regards to newbie baking recipes, this one is on the prime of the listing. Prep work is a breeze, and since you’re utilizing melted butter, you don’t want an electrical mixer. There’s no particular person cookie shaping/rolling, both—simply press the batter into the pan and bake!
And better of all: These blondies lower and stack simply, making them tremendous handy to move. (No messy frosting or icing to fret about!)
7 Easy Elements for Blondies
This recipe makes my listing of dessert recipes with 8 components or much less.
- Flour: All-purpose flour varieties the construction of those blondies.
- Baking Powder: This leavener puffs the blondies up as they bake.
- Salt: To steadiness the candy.
- Butter: Utilizing melted butter makes for additional buttery taste in addition to additional chewy texture.
- Brown Sugar: Utilizing all brown sugar to sweeten these sweet bar blondies offers them a butterscotch-like taste you’ll love.
- Egg + Egg Yolk: To bind the components collectively and add richness.
- Vanilla: One other key taste in blondies.
Plus, after all, CHOCOLATE CANDY!
And a sprinkle of flaky sea salt on prime is elective… however extremely advisable! That sweet-and-salty combo is what all of us love about salted caramel.
The recipe is so simple as it will get: whisk collectively the dry components in a single bowl, the moist components in one other, then mix them and fold within the chocolate. That’s all it takes to make the batter!
Finest Pan to Use for Blondies
Use a 9-inch sq. baking pan. (Notice that the pictured Wilton pan is not accessible on the market! I additionally love this Nordic Ware pan and this Wilton pan.)
In case you solely have an 8-inch sq. pan, you should use that, however the bake time can be longer because the bars can be a lot thicker. Line the pan with parchment paper so you may simply elevate the cooled blondies out and lower into squares.
What a few 9×13-inch baking pan? I like to recommend utilizing the batter/dough from these M&M cookie bars, and swap in 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped sweet bars for the M&Ms and chocolate chips (or use a mixture of M&Ms and chopped sweet bars).
Finest Candies to Use in Sweet Bar Blondies
Within the pictured blondies, I used a mixture of Snickers, Twix, Rolo, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and Reese’s Items. The batter works with virtually any chocolate-based sweet, so use what you have got or seize a couple of favorites from the sweet aisle. You’ll want about 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped sweet bars.
These blondies are a post-Halloween custom in my home, however they’re simply as enjoyable year-round. The add-ins are completely customizable, so you may costume up a batch for any vacation. A couple of concepts to get you began:
- Valentine’s Day: You need to use pink, purple, and white M&Ms; and press a heart-shaped chocolate into the tops of the blondies (and shortly freeze so the chocolate doesn’t soften), like we do for these sparkle sweetheart cookies.
- Easter/Spring: Chopped Cadbury Creme Eggs or Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs; Mini/Robin Eggs; pastel M&Ms, and/or any leftovers you have got from making an Easter cake!
- Christmas: Purple and inexperienced M&Ms (like these M&M cookie bars), and another assortment of chocolate candies that Santa leaves in your stocking.
Simply avoid gummy candies and onerous candies. And possibly save any mint-flavored sweets for treats like Andes chocolate cookies or sweet cane kiss cookies.
Description
Chop up quite a lot of chocolate sweet bars so that you get quite a lot of textures in each chew. You may also combine in different goodies like M&Ms, chocolate chips, pretzel items, or nuts. Smooth, chewy, buttery perfection with little or no prep work and no mixer required!
- 2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour, (spooned & leveled)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 14 Tablespoons (196g) unsalted butter, melted + barely cooled
- 1 and 1/4 cups (250g) packed mild or darkish brown sugar
- 1 massive egg + 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- 1 Tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/2 cups (about 225g) chopped chocolate sweet bars
- elective: flaky sea salt, for sprinkling on prime
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Line a 9-inch sq. baking pan with parchment paper, leaving an overhang on the perimeters to simply elevate the bars out of the pan. Put aside.
- In a big bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking powder, and salt.
- In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the melted butter and brown sugar till mixed. Whisk within the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and blend till mixed. Pour the moist components into the dry components and whisk to mix. The batter ought to be thick. Utilizing a spatula, fold within the chopped sweet bars. Unfold the batter evenly into the ready pan. Sprinkle the highest with flaky sea salt, if utilizing.
- Bake till golden brown, about 30–34 minutes, or till a toothpick inserted within the middle comes out principally clear with only some moist crumbs. Keep away from over-baking.
- Cool utterly within the pan set on a cooling rack, about 1 hour. As soon as cool, elevate the blondies out of the pan utilizing the parchment overhang on the perimeters, switch to a chopping board, and lower into squares.
- Cowl and retailer leftover bars at room temperature for as much as 1 week.
Notes
- Freezing Directions: Baked blondies freeze properly for as much as 3 months. Thaw in a single day within the fridge and convey to room temperature earlier than serving.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): 9-inch Sq. Baking Pan | Parchment Paper | Glass Mixing Bowls | Whisk | Silicone Spatula
- Finest Sweet Bars to Use: Within the pictured blondies, I used a mixture of Snickers, Twix, Rolo, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and Reese’s Items. The batter works with virtually any chocolate-based sweet, so use what you have got or seize a couple of favorites from the sweet aisle. You’ll want about 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped sweet bars. See put up above for extra concepts.
- 9×13-Inch Pan: I like to recommend utilizing the batter/dough from these M&M cookie bars, and swap in 1 and 1/2 cups of chopped sweet bars for the M&Ms and chocolate chips (or use a mixture of M&Ms and chopped sweet bars).
- Up to date in 2025: Since first publishing this recipe in 2013, my crew and I’ve made a couple of tweaks to make the blondies thicker, chewier, and softer—all with the identical components. To make the unique model, use an 8-inch sq. baking pan; the blondies can be barely sweeter and thinner. Use 1 cup (125g) flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 1/8 teaspoon baking soda (elective, because the up to date model omits it), 1/4 teaspoon salt, 6 Tbsp (85g) melted butter, 1 cup (200g) brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 Tbsp vanilla, and 1 and 1/2 cups chopped sweet bars. Put together the batter as directed and bake for twenty-four–26 minutes.
