Welcome to Day Three of my blogiversary giveaway week!! I hope you all are enjoying the giveaways!
In case you missed them, enter Day One’s giveaway for a Hello Hydrangea weaving HERE, and Day Two’s gift card to Savlen Sportswear HERE.
Today is a big day, not only because we’re in the middle of my blogiversary week, but because it’s also time for this month’s Monthly Ingredient Challenge!
So let’s just make this a baking palooza and celebrate all things yummy, food, and baking with a $50 LeCreuset.com gift card giveaway today too, mmmkay?!! You guys know how much I love LC. The pieces I own are like appendages and I may or may not take them with us when we evacuate for a hurricane, them and my KitchenAid stand mixer. Then the husband and cat ;)
The ingredient for March was peanut butter, chosen by yours truly. Not for any reason, I had no recipe in mind when I chose it, I just did because my husband goes crazy over anything peanut butter and his birthday was Sunday! I started to browse around for inspiration and man, there are a ton of peanut butter recipes out there. I did know I wanted to make something with Reese’s peanut butter chips (so I could eat a whole bag), just wasn’t sure what. Then I remembered a snickerdoodle blondie recipe I’ve had for years and thought maybe I could make those into peanut butter snickerdoodle blondies somehow. And oh.em.gee were they gooood!!! So behold, peanut butter snickerdoodle blondies!
It took a bit of work to find the right amounts of the other ingredients to make this work with the peanut butter but I finally got them where I liked them. And oh darn, there were about three not-quite-right batches along the way that we had to “dispose” of ;) Now, full disclosure, I like my blondies/brownies suuuper gooey… so these are pretty dang gooey.
Start off by mixing all your dry ingredients together (flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon).
Then in your mixer, cream your butter until it’s nice and smooth. Add in your brown sugar, vanilla, then eggs and mix well. Make sure to scrape down the sides every once in a while. Add your peanut butter (I used creamy) and quickly mix to incorporate then gently fold in your peanut butter chips and toffee bits until they’re evenly dispersed.
Grease your baking dish (I used my LeCreuset 9×11″ which is my go-to blondie/brownie pan) then spread the batter evenly in it. It’s pretty sticky and stiff so it takes some patience, just get it as level as you can. Then, generously sprinkle your white sugar + cinnamon mixture all over it. If I have any left over (rarely), I save it to make cinnamon toast with ;)
Bake at 375F for about 30 minutes or until a tester comes clean. This is the time I used for mine but like I said, I like mine pretty moist and gooey still. If you like yours on the fluffier, lighter side, play around with adding more flour and increasing the bake time.
Cut ’em up and serve them warm with good ‘ol vanilla ice cream.
These are seriously like three desserts all in one, a cinnamon-y snickerdoodle, rich peanut butter cookie, and a warm and fluffy blondie!
Peanut Butter Snickerdoodle Blondies
The ultimate indulgence. Yummy snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies, and blondies all combined into one dish.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cups light brown sugar
- 1 cup 2 sticks butter, softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 10 oz. package peanut butter chips
- 1/2 cup toffee bits, optional
- 1 tbsp white sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375F, grease a 9x9 or 9x11 baking dish.
- Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and 1tsp cinnamon together in a bowl, set aside.
- Cream butter until soft.
- Add brown sugar and vanilla, mix until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time until fluffy again. Scrape down sides and mix again until all combined.
- Add peanut butter and mix until combined.
- Add flour mixture gradually until just combined.
- Fold in peanut butter chips and toffee bits.
- Spread batter in greased dish and level.
- Mix other 1tsp cinnamon with 1tbsp white sugar then sprinkle over the top of batter.
- Bake ~30min. or until tester comes out clean.
Make sure you check out the other girls’ peanut butter recipes in this month’s challenge too!
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I like making orange sponge cake
Ooo, I’ve never had an orange cake Lana! And we have an orange tree in the backyard that makes BUSHELS, so anything I could make with them would be great :) Do you have a link to the recipe you use?
Happy Blogiversary!! Blonde brownies are my favorite dessert ever, this is a nice twist! A must-try recipe!
Hi Roxanne, thank you!! Let me know what you think!
I’m a cupcake girl for life! Thanks for the giveaway and these look SO GOOD!
Thanks and good luck Meaghan!
I love baking cakes, and cookies, and rolls… I can’t choose just one! Congrats on the anniversary!
I know what you mean Leia, I’m a cake and cookie girl :) Good luck and thank you!
I love making cupcakes!!! I just love being in the kitchen. I would love to win! <3
Thank you Ashley! Good luck to you!!
My favorite would have to be baking chocolate chips with walnuts.
Mmmm, sounds so good Alina! Thanks and good luck!
Good ole APPLE PIE! YUM!
Yes please! With vanilla ice cream :)
Isn’t it just so sad when you have to “dispose” of the bad ones…sometimes I mess up on purpose just for this reason haha. These look delicious!
I mean, it tears me up every.single.time ;) Thanks!
My girlfriends & I just made scones and macarons from scratch this weekend. The scones were super easy, but I’m not sure I’d try the macarons again – just didn’t turn out as perfect as backery/pastry shop bought… I think I’ll stick to pies, lol!
Oh man, I’ve heard stories about how difficult macaroons are, #nothanks! Honestly, I’ve never even had one :) Pies all the way! Thanks Kim!
I love to make scones! This is my recipe –
Those look delicious Kassie, pinning now!! Thanks and good luck!
Brownies are my fave to bake!
I am way overdue to make some brownies, may just need to get on that :) Thanks Lyndsey!!
I love making pies, especially fresh fruit pies–blueberry, apple, peach & strawberry.
Mmmm, peach and apple pies are some of my faves!!
I like making simple chocolate chip cookies.
Those are still my favorite Lisa, and one of my favorite things to bake :)
WHAT. You just made me salivate a little. These look AMAZING. I’m kind of a sucker for peanut butter, so I’d say my favorite recipe is ANYTHING chocolate and peanut butter! These are totes pinned!
I debated for a long time if I wanted to put some mini chocolate chips or Nutella in these too ;) #thestruggleisreal. Thanks Amanda!
I have to try these Emily!!! I love snickerdoodles and these blondies with icecream look amazing! Pinning :) So fun to do this challenge with you!
I have a serious problem with putting all baked goods with ice cream ;) Anxious to hop around and read everyone else’s beautiful recipes!!
I like making dark chocolate cup cakes.
Yum Margot!
YUM! These look incredible Emily, I’ll have to pin them for a day that I don’t have chocolate cookies on my counter. Happy blogiversary!
Hope you love them as much as I do Colleen, thanks! P.S. I currently have a german chocolate cake on my counter ;)
These look delicious! I bet they’d be great with a chocolate drizzle too. Peanut butter was a great ingredient for this month! :)
Now you’re talking Mary!!
I absolutely love to make banana bread. It always smells so good!
My mother always made banana bread too and it was so amazing for breakfast, warm with melty butter all over it, mmmmm! I don’t ever get to have it anymore as the husband is allergic to bananas :/ but zucchini bread is a good substitute.
love this cake and it’s gluten free too.
Banana cake
7 eggs separated
1 C sugar
1 C potato starch
2-3 mashed bananas
1 C ground walnuts
1. in a large bowl, combine egg yolks and sugar. Mix with electric mixer on high speed until thick and yellow in color.
2. add potato starch a little at a time mixing to a smooth consistency, about 5 minutes on medium speed. add mashed bananas and ground walnuts and continue mixing for 1 minute.
3. beat egg whites until stiff. gently fold egg whites into batter. pour batter into ungreased 10″ tube pan.
4. bake at 350 for about 1 hour 10 minutes or until cake springs back when touched. invert cake in pan and cool completely.
Hope you like it.
That sounds so great Diana, and great that it’s gluten free, thank you!!!
I love baking chocolate jimmy logs!
I’ve never made those! They sound so good!
I love baking scones and biscotti.
I need to try to make some scones sometime soon. Thanks Amy!
Honestly, I love any kind of chocolate recipe….if it has peanut butter too, it is even better!
Totally, me too Kelly ;)
I love making baked apple squares.
I love any apple baking recipe!!
My favorite baking recipe is my homemade vanilla cake with buttercream icing.
That sounds delicious Natalie, and I bet it’s gorgeous!
Oh man! I think these are totally worth blowing my diet for :) Baking blondies has been on my list of things to make and this looks like a great recipe to start with. I was so excited when you picked peanut butter for this month’s challenge! Pinned!
Do it Christin!! I will take blondies over brownies any day! I was nervous about choosing PB but you guys knocked it outta the park with it :)
I love cake batter chocolate chip cookies!
Whoa! Those sound amazing Nickie, I’d love to see the recipe!
German chocolate cake!
I just made one last weekend for the husband’s birthday Susan! They’re pretty labor intensive from scratch but it’s sooooo worth it :)
My favorite is my grandmother’s recipe for banana bread with walnuts and chocolate chips.
Chocolate chips in banana bread?! Yes please!!
My favorite baking recipe is for a homemade chocolate cake with butter cream frosting.
I’ve been craving chocolate cake bad lately, that sounds so good Michele!
I love lemon pecan cookies – or any dessert with lemons!
I don’t cook with lemons near enough, I need to get on that! Thanks Sara!
I love gluten free banana bread.
Mmmmm, banana bread. Thanks Holly!!
I love baking so many different things but I think poke cakes and bundt cakes would have to be my favorite.
Both of those are so much fun to make. I like how bundt cakes are like a surprise :)
Chocolate chip brownies!
#YesPlease!! Yum!
One of my favorites is oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! Or oatmeal with dried cherries rather than raisins, yum!
Oooo, I bet the cherries in it them taste awesome!
Oh my word! These look so heavenly! I am gonna make them ASAP! My favorite recipe is probably my hubby’s chocolate mousse pie. Uuuuuugh. So good!
You are rockin’ this week! Hope you’ve been having a great blogiversary!
Chocolate mousse pie is one of my faves but I’ve never made it! I need to!
IT’S A TOSSUP FOR ME BETWEEN OOEY GOOEY BUTTER CAKE AND CINNAMON ROLL CAKE!
Oh man, cinnamon roll cake?!? Sounds amazing!
Along with the peanut butter theme. My sweetie loves the peanut butter cookies I make. They are so easy – flourless. If I remember correctly, the only ingredients are PB, egg, brown sugar and vanilla. We prefer things more on the crunchy side(not gooey). Great giveaway!
Peanut butter must be the universal man-favorite because mine loves it and I’ve had a number of people say it’s theirs too! Thanks Melissa!!
My favorite recepie to make is carrot cake.. my kids just love it and so does my hubby,
Carrot cake is my favorite cake, hands down!
I don’t bake as often as I would like but I do make a pretty good cheesecake!
Man, I just cannot get cheesecake right for the life of me Alison! You are so lucky you can do it :)
My mom’s cheesecake recipe is my favorite
I still haven’t figured out how to make a successful cheesecake :/ Need to work on that!
My Favorite Baking recipe is actually making grain free dog treats for my dog!
So creative Ben!! Good luck!
I love fresh peach pie.
I love peach pie!!!
My favorite recipe to bake are caramel filled brownies.
I LOVE caramel, those sound amazing!
I make a brownie recipe. It is all done in a pot and then transferred to a dish to bake. Thinking about it, I wonder if I put it in a oven proof pot if I could bake it in that… hmm, I think I may have to try that!
What a cool recipe!!
New york cheesecake
Oooo, great recipe Denise! Thanks!
I love baking Cinnamon Bread.
I could go for some of that this morning :)
I love baking cookies and cupcakes. Sometimes, I do enjoy baking a cake from scratch. I have just begun to get confidence in baking cakes, use to have a few issues. :)
There’s definitely alot more involved in them but oh man, does it make a huge difference!! Good luck Betsy!
Homemade chocolate cookies, yummy
Yum!!
Brownies with walnuts
Love brownies with walnuts in them :) Thanks Stacey!
Happy Blogiversary! These recipes all sound so delicious! I really liked the Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake recipe. Can’t wait to try it!
Isn’t that one so gorgeous!! Thank you Ally :)