White Chocolate Macadamia Blondies

🤍 Recipe Highlights

I have summarised everything that you will come to know and love (LOVE ❤) about this easy recipe in the points below:

• Minimal ingredients: we only need 5 simple ingredients for the basic blondie batter then we add 2 mix ins with the white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. This keeps the ingredients list to a minimum.
• Taste and texture: with a soft buttery interior that has melt in your mouth chocolate bits, a chewy texture and crunchy macadamia nuts we are ensuring that we tick both the taste and texture boxes for our blondies!
• Versatile: one of the great things about these blondies are how versatile they are! You can take them to a bake sale, work lunch, friend's house, family get together or warm and top with ice-cream for dessert. They are super versatile and work for a wide variety of serving scenarios.

🥗 Ingredients

The photo below is to show you everything you need to make the recipe. Please refer to the printable recipe card for specific ingredient measurements as well as detailed instructions.

As you can see the recipe calls for:

• Vanilla.
• Eggs: always free range of course!
• Butter: we want to use unsalted butter. This is because we are using roasted and salted macadamia nuts. We don't want too much salt in the mix.
• White chocolate: white chocolate chips or white chocolate chunks roughly chopped. Cooking chocolate (cooking aisle) is recommended over eating chocolate (sweets aisle).
• Macadamia nuts: buttery macadamia nuts are an excellent snack but they are also so good to bake with! (There is a reason why those Subway Cookies are so popular 😉👍). Roasted and salted is recommended. Some halves, some bits and pieces, not too many whole large nuts.
• Brown sugar: one of the 2 primary dry ingredients in a classic blondies recipe.
• Plain flour: no need to sift.

😉 Substitutions and Variations

Here are my sub ins and outs that you might be thinking about as you read the post and I will tell you if I think they will work or why they won't:

• Chocolate: you can use milk chocolate or dark chocolate chips in place of the white chocolate chips. Or use a combination of white chocolate and one or both of the above (equivalent total amount).
• Nuts: you can use other types of nuts in place of the macadamia nuts if you wish to. Keep the measurement the same but sub in either hazelnuts, pistachio nuts, pecans or walnuts.
• Butter: if you only have salted butter then you are best using unsalted macadamia nuts (or unsalted nuts of a different version you try).

👩‍🍳 How to Make White Chocolate Macadamia Blondies

To make the White Chocolate Macadamia Blondies we start by adding the brown sugar to a large mixing bowl.

🍳 Instructions

Here are the step by step instructions to make the recipe. We start by:

• Line the baking dish (Photo 1)
• Add sugar to a large bowl (Photo 2)
• Melt the butter (Photo 3)
• Pour butter into the sugar (Photo 4)

Lining the baking dish with parchment paper is important as we use this to remove the cooled blondies from the dish later down the track. After adding the sugar to a bowl place butter in a heat safe jug and microwave in 30 second increments till melted. When it has pour the melted butter into the sugar and combine.

• Crack the eggs (Photo 5)
• Add the eggs to the butter mixture (Photo 6)
• Stir to combine (Photo 7)
• Add the flour to the batter (Photo 8)

Stir the flour mixture until the blondies take on a thick caramel looking colour with consistently textured batter.

• Stir to combine (Photo 9)
• Add the nuts and chocolate (Photo 10)
• Pour batter into prepared pan, bake (Photo 11)
• Let cool (Photo 12)

After adding the flour to the mixing bowl, stir to combine consistently then add the white chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. Keep gently stirring till these are folded in then transfer the wet batter into the lined baking dish like you see in the photos above. Next use a spatula to spread the batter into an even layer (see video for technique).

Once done bake the blondies for 35 minutes. Then use a pair of oven mitts to remove the baking dish and place it on a heatproof surface. Then let the blondies cool for around 20 minutes (still in the baking dish).

After this time lift the baking paper up and out of the dish and place the full slab of blondies on a wire rack. Let them cool for a further 20 minutes before slicing into pieces (the best bit aside from the eating, right 😉👌).

🍽 Serving Suggestions

When it comes to time to serve your blondies (they are worth the wait!) you have multiple options up your sleeve.

Serve them with vanilla ice-cream like we do for the Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding.

Or simply pick up a slice and dive in.

👍 How to Guide

How to Store

Once you have sliced the blondies you can transfer them to an airtight container and place them in the fridge. They will keep for 3-5 days.

How to Reheat

If you want to reheat refrigerated blondies, simply transfer them to a bowl and microwave for 1 minute on high.

💡 Tasty Tips

Here are my top tips and tricks that I want to share with you so that you master the recipe from the get go:

• Baking dish: I like to use a square pan for this recipe. I do that as I then cut that square into 4 and those squares into 4 so you get 16 equal sized blondies.
• Baking paper: line the baking tray in both directions with enough overhang for easy removal. It will allow you to pull the blondies up and out of the tray once they have cooled.
• Oven temperature: turn the oven on before starting any of the other steps to make the recipe. This will allow it to preheat. This will also mean that the cook time for the blondies is accurate with the time specified in the recipe card. We want a precise cook time with little room to under or over cook the blondies.
• Cooling is important: part of the success is making blondies with their soft fudgy centre and crisp top is to let them cool! Do this in the pan for 20 minutes once they are removed from the oven and then let them cool for a further 20 minutes on a wire rack before cutting. This is the best way of ensuring that they won't break or fall apart.

🤓 Frequently Asked Questions

😍 More Easy Sweet and Savory Recipes

If you love getting your bake on including no bake days) then I have some more ideas for you to try! These recipes offer sweet and savory options and are more snacks or dessert than they are meals.

• Chocolate recipes: Microwave Chocolate Fudge, Coconut Fudge.
• Savory recipes: Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Bites, Caramelised Onion Sausage Rolls, Caramelised Onion Tarts.
• Cute and fun ideas: Apple Custard Tarts, Apple Crumble Tartlets.
• Seasonal delights: Rum And Raisin Fudge, Fruit Mince, Fruit Mince Tarts and the Brie Cranberry Tarts.

It is time to get our bake on with our white chocolate and macadamia nut blondies! You can also find all of my chocolate recipes or dessert recipes in the one spot.

Adrianne

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