Today’s recipe is a blast from the past! These Nutella Swirl Blondies are one of the first dessert recipes I ever shared on Sugar Spun Run, and I don’t mean from back in 2015 (which I consider to be when I really got serious about sharing recipes here) I mean from alllll the way back in 2012. Scroll down to the very bottom of the post to catch a glimpse of one of my first ever food photos… taken outside with my iPhone in the late evening sun 🙈. But while the pictures have definitely improved, the recipe has pretty much stayed the same with no improvement necessary. It’s just as tasty and worth sharing now as it ever was (and doing a photo re-shoot gave me a great excuse to make them again… it had been a while!).
We start with a simple chewy blondie base, made with melted butter, brown sugar, and a handful of white chocolate chips. Thanks to the melted butter, the blondie base can be easily stirred together by hand, meaning there’s no mixer required for this recipe. The blondie base is soft, chewy and slightly sweet, but the crowning feature is the Nutella swirl. Much like with my Nutella Muffins, the Nutella is mixed with cream cheese and an egg yolk for a richly flavored swirl. Calling the Nutella layer a “swirl” is a little bit of an understatement. I do recommend using a knife to swirl it into your blondie layer, but this recipe makes so much Nutella topping that it could almost be its very own layer.
Enjoy! Printable recipe just below the video
Originally published September of 2012, post was updated 05/18/2015, and most recently updated 01/15/2018 Picture from 2012 update
Original Picture from 2012
