White Chocolate Gingerbread Blondies

My Hubby is so spoiled. Last Thursday, I needed to stop at the store to grab a couple bananas to have for breakfast. While we were there, I asked if he needed anything. All of a sudden, he remembered that he needed to take something with him to his volleyball tournament over the weekend. After sorting through the emails from his team, he determined that he was supposed to bring a dessert. He gave me the puppy dog look and asked if I would mind baking something that night since I was leaving Friday night for New Hampshire.

Lucky for Hubby, I had a couple free hours that night and was able to find a recipe and grab the last remaining ingredients while at the store. I whipped up these blondies in no time flat and they smelled AMAZING baking up in the oven. Hubby took most of these to volleyball and I took the rest to New Hampshire. Aimee, Fiona, and Hubby’s volleyball team all agreed that these were another home run.

I recommend making these for any holiday gatherings you have coming up. They have a great almost carameley flavor to them and aren’t overly spiced. In fact, if you ommitted the spices all together, I’d call them caramel white chocolate blondies.

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Two Years Ago: Snickerdoodle Blondies
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Four Years Ago: Soft Pretzels

Spiced White Chocolate Blondies

Yield: Makes 24 bars

Ingredients:

2 3/4 cups plus 1 Tbsp flour
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp ground cloves
2 1/2 sticks (20 Tbsp or 1 1/4 cups) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1 1/4 tsp vanilla
1/3 cup unsulfured molasses
11 ounces white chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 pan.

Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices.

Beat butter and sugars with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy.

Add eggs and yolk, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition and scraping down sides of bowl as needed. Beat in vanilla and molasses.

Reduce speed to low. Gradually add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Stir in white chocolate chips.

Spread batter into prepared pan. Bake until edges are golden, 30-35 minutes (the middle might not be set). Let cool completely in pan on a wire rack.

Recipe from and now for something Completely Delicious, originally from Martha Stewart