Easy No-Fail Blondies Recipe

I love this extra easy and adaptable blondies recipe! The blondies taste like deep, rich buttery caramel and you won’t believe how easy they are to make. Jump to the Easy Blondies Recipeor watch our quick recipe video showing you how we make them.

Watch How We Make Blondies

What Are Blondies?

I’m sure you familiar with brownies, but do you know about blondies? If not, it’s time to change that. Blondies are similar to brownies, but instead of the base ingredients including cocoa powder or melted chocolate, we leave that out for more of a vanilla-based bar. Think of blondies as brownie’s alter-ego.

We’ve fallen in love with blondies. They are so easy to make — we’re pretty sure they’re one of the simplest, tastiest baked goods you can make. Not only that, but they are practically no-fail. Just a few ingredients, a bowl, and a spoon.

How to Make Blondies (You Only Need One Bowl)

This recipe makes blondies that are rich and dense with a paper-thin crinkly top. They are complex with lots of vanilla and dark brown sugar.  They taste like deep, rich buttery caramel. Keep them simple or customize. Add chocolate, nuts, dried fruit — whatever.

All the magic happens in one bowl. If you’ve been following Inspired Taste for a while, you’re probably tuned in to our love of no fuss, no mess recipes. We’re terrible with staying ahead of dirty dishes. So anything “one bowl” snags major points in our book.

Blondie Recipe Ingredients

Melted butter makes these blondies rich and delicious. I use unsalted butter when baking so that I can control the salt content. I’ve also used browned butter to make blondies with great success. Just swap browned butter for the melted butter called for in the recipe (here’s our tutorial for how to make browned butter).

Brown sugar makes the blondies taste almost like caramel. If you have it in your kitchen, use dark brown sugar. It adds even more flavor.

Egg gives structure, makes the bars tender, and helps the blondies rise a little. We don’t use any additional leavener for these, so the egg is important.

Vanilla extract and salt are essential in making the blondies taste amazing. I also love adding a little bit of almond extract.

All-purpose flour provides more structure, although we really don’t use much of it.

Making The Blondie Batter

To make the blondies, stir the brown sugar with melted butter. Add an egg and vanilla extract, and salt then stir again. When all the other ingredients are blended, add the flour. If you are adding any extra ingredients like chocolate chips, fold them in at the end.

Baking Blondies

The blondies bake about 25 minutes. It’s important not to overbake them. Overbaked blondies turn hard.

The blondies are ready to come out of the oven when look almost done. As they cool out of the oven, they continue to bake. So to make sure you have that moist, gooey middle, take blondies out when they edges look browned, but the middle looks a little underdone.

What Our Readers Are Saying

I told you this blondies recipe was easy. Here’s what our readers have been saying about the recipe:

“Wow, these blondies really are foolproof and so delicious.” – Karen

“These were yummy, rich, moist and buttery, caramely mouthfuls of happiness” – Gizelle

“They are the best blondies I have ever tasted. So easy and Delicious!” – Susan

More Easy Baking Recipes

• Here’s my favorite brownie recipe! It makes the best fudgy brownies from scratch.
• I love these chewy around the edges, tender in the middle chocolate chip cookies.
• These delicious peanut butter cookies are naturally free of flour, butter, and dairy.
• When I want a chocolate cookie, I always turn to these double chocolate walnut cookies.

Recipe updated, originally posted July 2013. Since posting this in 2013, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear and added a quick recipe video. – Adam and Joanne