Happy Memorial Day! I hope you’re enjoying a nice, long, extended weekend (that’s hopefully much sunnier and less rainy where you are than it is here). Zach and I went strawberry picking with his family on Saturday (as you might’ve seen on my Instagram stories, if you follow along) so I’ve been extremely busy working those berries into a few recipes for you that I hope to have ready soon. If you have any berry-related recipe suggestions, I’d love to hear them! Until those are ready, I have a simple, buttery, sprinkle-y recipe to share with you today, a fun new way to eat blondies that I’m calling “butter bites”. They’re a cousin to my brown butter cookies, but easily baked in a pan.
Butter bites are essentially blondies cut into tiny, 1-inch squares (meaning you get 117 bites out of a 13×9 pan!). They’re not just blondies, though. These are made with browned butter (I can’t seem to get enough of this easy technique, since this is approximately my 10th browned butter recipe this year, have you tried my brown butter frosting or brown butter infused pistachio cake?), making them taste extra, well, buttery. The flavor is deep and rich, and there are plenty of steps in the recipe to help you through the browning process if you’ve never done it before!
You could just stop there — brown the butter, bake the blondies, cut them up and be finished, but I like to take things a step further and decorate them with chocolate and sprinkles. I prefer to use melting wafers but you could instead melt chocolate chips in the microwave. I melt a handful of white chocolate, a handful of dark chocolate, and then set out a bowl of sprinkles and dip, dunk, and let them cool (with the melting wafers, the chocolate sets must faster than it would if you used chocolate chips). I definitely recommend doing this last step, it takes only a couple of minutes to dip and sprinkle the squares and it’s what makes them so unique. The sprinkles add a nice texture to the smooth chocolate and the melt-in-your-mouth, chewy blondie bites.
Enjoy!
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