Cranberry Blondies
Ingredients
¾ cup
Kowalski's Unsalted Butter, melted
2
eggs
4 tsp.
Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract
1 ½ cups
flour
1 ½ cups
brown sugar
1 tsp.
baking powder
½ tsp.
kosher salt
1 cup
white chocolate chips
½ cup
chopped pecans
- Cream Cheese Frosting (recipe below)
½ cup
dried cranberries, chopped
1 tbsp.
chopped orange zest
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Line a 9x13" baking pan with parchment paper, extending paper over ends of pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, stir together butter, eggs and vanilla until thoroughly combined; set aside.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt; stir into butter mixture until thoroughly combined.
- Add white chocolate chips and pecans; stir to combine.
- Spread mixture evenly in bottom of prepared pan; bake in preheated oven until top is shiny, cracked and light golden-brown (25-30 min.).
- Remove from oven; let bars cool completely in pan.
- Using ends of parchment paper, lift bars out of pan in a single slab.
- Frost with Cream Cheese Frosting; garnish with cranberries and orange zest.
- Cut into bars.
CREAM CHEESE FROSTING: In a medium mixing bowl, combine 3 oz. softened cream cheese, 2 tbsp. room-temperature butter, 1 tsp. milk and ½ tsp. Kowalski's Organic Madagascar Vanilla Extract; beat with an electric mixer on low speed until creamy. Gradually beat in 2 cups confectioners' sugar on low speed until frosting is smooth and spreadable.