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White Chocolate Walnut Blondies with Maple Butter Sauce

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Similar to my favorite Applebee’s dessert. Not an exact copy…but it is still pretty dang good!

Ingredients

  • FOR THE BLONDIES:
  • 3 cups All-purpose Flour
  • ¼ teaspoons Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  • 10 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter, melted
  • 2 cups Light Brown Sugar
  • 3 whole Eggs, Lightly Beaten
  • 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • ½ cups Chopped Walnuts
  • 1 cup White Chocolate Chips
  • _____
  • FOR THE SAUCE:
  • 2 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter
  • 1-½ cup Heavy Cream
  • 6 Tablespoons Maple Syrup
  • 3 Tablespoons Light Corn Syrup
  • Optional Garnish: Vanilla Ice Cream, Chopped Walnuts

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a medium bowl, sift together flour, salt & baking powder. Set aside.

In another large mixing bowl, mix melted butter with brown sugar until well-blended. Add in beaten eggs and vanilla. Stir well.

Slowly add flour mixture to butter/sugar/egg mixture. Stir thoroughly but take care not to overmix your batter. Fold in nuts and chocolate. Batter will be thick.

Spray pan with nonstick cooking spray, then pour batter into 9 x 13 baking pan. Bake for about 25-30 minutes (until a toothpick inserted comes out clean).

For the sauce:
Melt butter in a medium sauce pan over medium heat (do not allow butter to burn). Then add heavy cream, maple syrup and corn syrup. Allow this mixture to simmer over medium heat for about 20-30 minutes. This is the hard part: waiting for the mixture to reduce and thicken. You don’t want to bring this to a boil, just a nice, slightly bubbly simmer. Stir it occasionally. Once it has reduced by about a 1/3, it’s ready.

To serve: you can heat up blondie on a cast iron skillet and serve with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or you can just heat a slice of blondie on a plate in your microwave for about 25 seconds. Add a scoop of ice cream on top then pour the warm maple butter sauce on top and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

Cook’s note: if using a glass pan, adjust heat to 325 degrees F. You may have to bake slightly longer than given time. Also, you may want to double up the maple butter sauce recipe. It really is the best part. We love a lot of sauce on ours (as you can tell from the picture!).

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carlyfries on 4.12.2011

This recipe didn’t work out for me. I didn’t overmix it, and measured everything to a T.. but they came out dry, tasting floury and sort of blah.. I wonder if there was somewhere that I went wrong! The sauce is absolutely to die for though.. went very well with some maple walnut ice cream!

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rachelyoung on 10.31.2010

Delicious! My family loved it!

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jamieallen4 on 10.24.2010

i agree with every single thing the commenters said prior to my comment! this is so absolutely delicious. i would also like to add that it’s not overly sweet, it has just the right sweetness. i thought the sauce would be hard to make and it was easy. i, too have been looking for the perfect blondie recipe and this is absolutely positively it!

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sugarlover on 10.18.2010

Oh my!!! – what a deelicious looking treat! I love that it has been featured here on TK….it definitely deserves a FULL room of cheer from the looks and description of this scrumptious brownie. I will be making it ASAP! Many many thanks for such a treat of a recipe! :-)

p.s. I have browsed through your “recipe box” – my goodness what a source of fabulous recipes!!!

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mexicarol on 9.30.2010

I tried a different variation of this recipe from one of those “top secret” cookbooks and it was a total fail! This recipe is divine. Thanks for sharing! We are hooked!

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Robynne on 1.12.2012

Wow! I made these for my 16 year old son and asked him to be my personal food critic and write a review on your recipe I shared on Facebook. Here is what he wrote: Well I have tried it and it scores 5 stars on the Justin taste scale. The flavor was intense! It definitely sent my taste buds into a frenzy. I could eat these all day long.
~Justin, Food critic of the day.

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Frieda Loves Bread on 1.9.2012

Have made these several times ~ the maple butter sauce is to DIE for! My neighbor paid me to make these for a Christmas party ~ THANKS for a great recipe; I’ve posted it on my blog: http://www.friedalovesbread.com/2012/01/maple-walnut-blondies-tasty-kitchen.html

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kristen02 on 2.26.2011

The maple sauce was amazing in this recipe! And I only had cheap, not real, “maple” syrup, so I wasn’t expecting much- but it was GOOD.

I did not care as much for the blondie. It was dense, and almost shortbread like in texture. My husband said it was on the dry side. I have a much better blondie recipe that I will use next time I make this.

It gets 5 stars for the maple sauce, 3 stars for the blondie, combines to 4 stars. ;-)

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shellbell396 on 2.9.2011

These were so yummy! I took them to my grandparents house and my grandfather had 2 BIG servings! So I’d say they were a Huge hit!

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johannagibson on 2.6.2011

I had really high expectations for these from all the other reviews, but they just didn’t meet them. The sauce was good, I think it was the blondie that was just ok. Probably something I did wrong, but I don’t think I will try these again.

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