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1900s-present - American home bakers adapting early non-chocolate brownies into brown-sugar bar cookies
Blondies are American bar cookies built on brown sugar, butter, eggs, and flour. They preserve an older non-chocolate brownie lineage while becoming a lunchbox, bake-sale, and weeknight dessert standard.
Difficulty
Easy
Prep time
15 minutes
Cook time
25 minutes
Total time
40 minutes
Servings
16 bars
Region
United States
Era introduced
1900s-present
Introduced by
American home bakers adapting early non-chocolate brownies into brown-sugar bar cookies
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Before the chocolate brownie took over the word brownie, American bakers made pale, molasses or brown-sugar bars that looked much closer to what we now call blondies. By the mid-20th century, butterscotch brownies or blonde brownies were a familiar home-baking category. Blondies remain useful because they are fast, sturdy, and adaptable: add nuts, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or leave them plain.
Drafted with blondie history from The Nibble (https://blog.thenibble.com/2019/01/22/food-holiday-national-blondie-day/), brownie/blondie background from Umami Days (https://umamidays.com/brownies-blondies-and-dessert-bars/), and modern butterscotch brownie method from The Mom 100 (https://themom100.com/recipe/butterscotch-brownies-aka-blondies/).
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