Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies

Super soft peanut butter bars with chocolate chips, a chocolate ganache, and peanut butter drizzle

When I was in middle school, there was a little bar treat that was an option for dessert in the cafeteria every day. You got two of them and they were just a regular chocolate chip blondie of some sort. They were super soft and moist. I didn't often get lunch money and if I did, I may not have gotten enough to buy a full lunch. I would buy these chocolate chip blondies and that would be my lunch or I'd split my friend's lunch and we'd each get a bar for dessert. These peanut butter chocolate chip blondies are the closest in texture that I have ever come across in a recipe and it was absolutely unintentional. I had no clue that's what I was getting with this dessert. It was pure nostalgia!

What you need:

For the Blondies:

• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 2 cups (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips
  

For the Chocolate Ganache and Topping: 

• 8 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup peanut butter, warmed
  
• Mini chocolate chips
  

Directions:

1. For the Blondies: In a stand mixer, beat together brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
2. Add peanut butter and mix, then add vanilla and eggs and mix until smooth.
3. Stir in flour and baking powder.
4. Fold in chocolate chips.
5. Spread batter into a greased and parchment paper lined 13x9-inch dish.
6. Bake into a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool.
7. For the Ganache and Topping: In heatproof bowl, add chocolate chips.
8. In a medium saucepan or in the microwave, heat heavy cream until it simmers. I usually do a minute in the microwave (1200 watt).
9. Pour hot cream over top of chocolate chips and let sit for 5 minutes.
10. Whisk until chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth.
11. Pour over the top of the cooled blondies and chill in fridge until set.
12. Drizzle with warmed peanut butter and sprinkle with mini chocolate chips.
    

Recipe from Yummy Crumble

I loved these M&M Blonde Brownies. They are so quick to throw together! If peanut butter and chocolate is your jam, these Buckeye Brownies from Cookies & Cups will be the perfect treat - in my opinion, the best PB chocolate treats are Buckeye candies.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies

Author: Sarah Ellis/Fantastical Sharing of Recipes

Ingredients

For the Blondies:

• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup creamy peanut butter
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 2 cups (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips

For the Chocolate Ganache and Topping:

• 8 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup peanut butter, warmed
• Mini chocolate chips

Instructions

1. For the Blondies: In a stand mixer, beat together brown sugar and butter until light and fluffy.
2. Add peanut butter and mix, then add vanilla and eggs and mix until smooth.
3. Stir in flour and baking powder.
4. Fold in chocolate chips.
5. Spread batter into a greased and parchment paper lined 13x9-inch dish.
6. Bake into a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool.
7. For the Ganache and Topping: In heatproof bowl, add chocolate chips.
8. In a medium saucepan or in the microwave, heat heavy cream until it simmers. I usually do a minute in the microwave (1200 watt).
9. Pour hot cream over top of chocolate chips and let sit for 5 minutes.
10. Whisk until chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth.
11. Pour over the top of the cooled blondies and chill in fridge until set.
12. Drizzle with warmed peanut butter and sprinkle with mini chocolate chips.

Notes:

Recipe from Yummy Crumble

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