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.
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
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- 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.
- Stir in brown sugar, oil, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and eggs.
- Combine flour, baking powder, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture.
- 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.
- Combine remaining 1 teaspoon vanilla, powdered sugar, milk, and cream cheese in a bowl.
- Place ¼ cup cream cheese mixture in a ziplock plastic bag.
- Place chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl; microwave at HIGH 30 seconds or just until melted, stirring occasionally, cool.
- Stir melted chocolate into remaining cream cheese mixture. Pour chocolate mixture over blondies, spreading to an even layer.
- Snip a very small hole in one bottom corner of ziplock bag with cream cheese mixture.
- Pipe 3 concentric circles over blondies.
- 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.