Alternate title for this recipe: Butter Let’s celebrate apples with immensely buttery blondies. We’re using 2 sticks of butter in these brown butter apple blondies and we definitely shouldn’t think twice about it!! The good news is that this recipe makes a large 9×13-inch pan, so there’s plenty to share. But the bad news is… you have to share them.
These Brown Butter Apple Blondies Are:
Cinnamon-spiced Soft and sweet Chewy, not cakey Flavored with brown sugar and brown butter Bursting with apples
How to Make Brown Butter Apple Blondies
Listen up because there’s a few steps to conquer before we take that first bite. Here are the gently cooked apples and the blondie batter: Success Tip: Lining the pan with parchment paper makes it much easier to remove the apple blondies before slicing and serving. I use the same tip when making rice krispie treats and M&M cookie bars, too.
Best Apples for Brown Butter Apple Blondies
You can use your favorite variety of apples. I prefer tart Granny Smith apples because the blondies are pretty sweet. For a complete list of my favorite apple varieties, with a description of each, you can visit my post The Best Apples for Baking.
The Magic of Brown Butter
Let’s talk about brown butter. I actually created a landing page for all things brown butter including the quick process, success tips, and a video tutorial. Brown butter is a one ingredient wonder and vasty improves the flavor in any dish where it’s used, including these blondies. (By the way, I highly recommend browning butter for butterscotch blondies too!) Brown butter by gently cooking and stirring it on the stove until its milk solids toast and it has a nutty aroma. This takes anywhere between 5-8 minutes, so it’s a pretty quick step. And well worth every single second. In less than 10 minutes, you’ll have liquid gold:
Brown Butter Icing
The blondies don’t need icing, just like we don’t need to binge watch Netflix on a Sunday night. But we want it, so we’ll do it. This is the same brown butter icing we use for pistachio cookies, skillet cornmeal cake, pecan sugar cookies, and brown butter pumpkin oatmeal cookies. It’s remarkable and readers have been raving about it on my peach Bundt cake. Try it on scones and cinnamon rolls too. (You won’t regret this icing, unlike the 4 hours of Netflix binge watching.)
More Apple Treats
Classic Apple Pie Homemade Apple Cider Apple Cinnamon Bread Apple Cinnamon Rolls Caramel Apple Scones Apple Hand Pies Apple Bundt Cake Fresh Apple Cake Honeycrisp Apple Sangria
