When you have a good blondie recipe in your possession you can create a bar cookie with almost infinite variations. I sometimes think that I like brown butter blondies bars better than brownies. They are rich, they are chewy, and they are sort of flavor-neutral in that there are SO many additions and variations that…
Sweet and Salty Brownies
I think it was almost two weeks ago that I posted a link that I’d found on the Internet to pretzel brownies. They looked really good but used a mix – which I don’t like to do. I decided to work with the recipe a bit to get it to the point it was exactly…
Copycat Cranberry Bliss Bars
A couple of years ago Starbucks started serving Cranberry Bliss bars – basically a blondie with cranberries, ginger, and orange that is topped with a thin frosting, sprinkled with more dried cranberries and then drizzled with white chocolate. It was an instant hit – right a long with their pumpkin latte I’ve tried several cranberry…
Old Fashioned Hoosier Peanut Bars
I have tried every way I can think of to research the beginnings of Hoosier Peanut Bars. The name sounds like something from the 1930s and I found out that a version of the bar cookies were entered into the Pillsbury Bake-Off in 1949 by Edgar Bleeke of Fort Wayne, Indiana. He won, by the…
Red Velvet Brownies
I have a recipe written in a spidery handwriting on a faded piece of torn notebook paper. It has intrigued me forever because it sounded so special – Waldorf Red Cake. This recipe was my grandmother’s and I am guessing it is from the late 1920s or early 1930s. Yep, you guessed it – it’s…
