Frosted Brown Butter Blondies

Frosted Brown Butter Blondies

These are fantastic without the frosting but that elevates this dessert to the next level!
Plan Ahead Note: the cream cheese needs to be softened to room temperature.
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Course: Halloween
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 5 Tablespoons unsalted butter
  • ¾ cup light brown sugar packed
  • ¼ cup canola oil
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract divided
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon kosher salt divided
  • 1 cup powdered sugar (plus more if you like thicker frosting)
  • 3 Tablespoons milk
  • 3 oz. cream cheese softened
  • 2 oz. bittersweet chocolate chopped

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 350°.       
  2. Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium-high.  Cook 1-2 minutes or until light brown.  Place butter in a bowl; cool 15 minutes.
  3. Stir in brown sugar, oil, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and eggs.  
  4. Combine flour, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt.  Stir flour mixture into butter mixture.
  5. Pour batter into an 8" cake pan coated with cooking spray.  Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool.  Transfer to serving plate.
  6. Combine remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla, powdered sugar, milk, and cream cheese in a bowl.
  7.  Place ¼ cup cream cheese mixture in a ziplock plastic bag.
  8. Place chocolate  in a microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIGH 30 seconds or just until melted, stirring occasionally, cool.  
  9. Stir melted chocolate into remaining cream cheese mixture.  Pour chocolate mixture over blondies, spreading to an even layer.  
  10. Snip a very small hole in one bottom corner of ziplock bag with cream cheese mixture.
  11.  Pipe 3 concentric circles over blondies.
  12. Drag a wooden pick out from the center of the pan to the edge, repeating in a circle to create a web pattern.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Cooking Light Magazine.