Kids in the Kitchen Wednesday: Chocolate Chip Blondies

Ever have one of those nights when you're craving a warm, homemade chocolate chip cookie? You know... when the craving is so strong you know a handful of Oreos or a few Chips Ahoy are not going to cut it? 

We had one of those nights last Saturday in the Wisconsin Test Kitchen; and we knew that making some kind of homemade treat was the only way to satisfy our baked goods craving. Luckily, Rebecca had just found a recipe on Pinterest for chocolate chip blondies, and we happened to have all the ingredients. Faster than you could say, 'extra chocolate chips please'- we had a pan of these in the oven to enjoy with our family movie night. 

Chocolate Chip Blondies
Recipe courtesy of: http://www.errenskitchen.com/chocolate-chip-blondies/


Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose/plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 sticks butter, softened
1½ cups packed light-brown sugar
¼ cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet/plain chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour an 8 x 12 baking pan.
Sift the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder together into a large mixing bowl.
In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until fluffy.
Mix in the eggs one at a time, then add the vanilla.
Mix in the flour mixture by hand until combined (this avoids a cake like consistency).
Fold in the chocolate chips.

Spread the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake for 30 minutes exactly. Be careful not to overbake. A toothpick may not come out clean. Allow to cool completely in the pan and cut into bars.

These blondies were perfect! They were a combination between chocolate chip cookies and a brownie. We were big fans, and it was an easy way to cure our hankering for baked goods. Bonus: there's enough left for packing in a certain tiny chef's lunchbox on Tuesday!

Stay Cool,
The Cool Dads Crew