Dense, soft, and fudgy, these easy Nutella Blondies take just a few minutes to throw together and will definitely fix your sugar craving!
Delicious on their own or served with ice cream, you are not going to want to miss this recipe!
Didn't think you could improve on Nutella blondies? Think again, as we've supercharged these glorious blondie bars with mini peanut butter cups AND white chocolate chips for a taste sensation!
Love blondies? Check out my fudgy cranberry white chocolate blondies too!
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✔️ Why should you try it?
- Easy and quick to make
- Perfect for bake sales and parties
- Supercharged with mini peanut butter cups and white chocolate chips
- Dense and fudgy
- Can be frozen
- Made in one bowl
🥘 Ingredients
- Nutella - the star of the show in these gorgeous Nutella cookie bar blondies.
- Butter - unsalted butter is best and needs to be melted.
- Caster Sugar - I used golden caster sugar but ordinary caster sugar can also be used.
- Light Brown Sugar - helps give the blondies a lovely fudgy texture. You can substitute it with dark brown sugar if you prefer.
- Eggs - 2 large free-range eggs.
- Vanilla Extract
- Flour - white plain (all-purpose) flour is what you need for the recipe.
- White Chocolate Chips - or use milk chocolate chips.
- Mini Peanut Butter Cups - or use peanut butter chips instead and/or add more chocolate chips.
🔪 Instructions
The recipe card with ingredient quantities and detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of the post
One: Melt the butter in a microwave safe bowl and allow to cool for a minute or two.
Two: Beat in the caster sugar and light brown sugar until pale and fluffy. By hand this will take about 3-4 minutes.
Three: Beat in the eggs until combined.
Four: Add the plain flour and vanilla extract and beat until combined.
Five: Fold through the mini peanut butter cups and chocolate chips.
Six: Spoon the mixture into a small brownie tin or 20cm square baking tin.
Seven: Dollop Nutella (which has been softened slightly for 10 seconds in the microwave) on top of the blondie batter.
Eight: Use a skewer to make swirls of Nutella through the blondie. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Leave to cool before cutting into squares.
💭 Top tips
- The hardest part about making these blondies is leaving them long enough to cool. To speed up the process I recommend placing them in your freezer for 30 minutes or your fridge for an hour, before cutting them into bars.
- To get those clean-cut lines, make sure the blondies are cool, and use a long sharp knife to cut them. Wipe the knife clean (be careful when doing this!) between each cut.
🍴 Serving suggestions
The blondies are great served as an after-school snack with a glass of milk. I also serve them for dessert with honeycomb ice cream and chocolate sauce. You can warm the blondies up the microwave for a few minutes before serving.
📖 Variations
Here are few flavour variations you could try;
- Use plain chocolate spread instead of Nutella.
- If you can't get hold of mini peanut butter cups, use peanut butter chips instead, or just up the quantity of chocolate chips.
- Use a mixture of white, milk, and dark chocolate chips.
- Once baked, scatter the top with crushed salted peanuts for added crunch and texture.
- Use dark brown sugar instead of light brown sugar for a darker, richer flavour.
🥡 Storage
Once cooled store the blondies in an airtight container for up to 5 days. They can also be frozen for up to 3 months in a freezer safe container. Place non stick baking paper between each layer to prevent them from sticking together.
I'll let you into a little secret...I LOVE a blondie straight from the freezer. Yes really! You've got to try it.
❓ FAQS
The main difference is chocolate. Brownies are made with chocolate and/or cocoa powder, giving them that wonderful dark brown colour, and blondies are not (although they often have white chocolate in them).
Yes, just like brownies, blondies are meant to be gooey, fudgy and dense in texture.
The blondies should be golden around the edges with a very slight wobble in the centre. Place in the fridge or freezer to set, which makes cutting them so much easier.
See how the blondies are made in my Nutella Blondies web story!
😋Related recipes
More blondie and brownie recipes to try!
- Peanut Butter Brownies
- Lemon Blueberry Blondies
- M&M Cookie Bars
- Biscoff Blondies
- Gluten-Free Raspberry Brownies
- White Chocolate and Cranberry Brownies
- Fruity Mincemeat Blondies
- Chocolate Orange Brownies
- Biscoff Brownies
Or how about this Biscoff Mug Cake for a single serve sweet treat!
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Recipe
Nutella Blondies
Ingredients
- 200 g Butter melted
- 125 g Caster Sugar
- 125 g Light Brown Sugar or use dark brown sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 275 g Plain Flour
- 100 g White Chocolate Chips
- 180 g Mini Peanut Butter Cups or use peanut butter chips
- 125 g Nutella softened in a microwave for 10 seconds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (160 fan/ 350F/ Gas 4) and line a small brownie tin or 20cm square baking tin with baking paper.
- Melt the butter in a large microwave safe bowl. Beat in the caster sugar and light brown sugar until pale and fluffy (this should take 3-4 minutes).
- Mix in the eggs.
- Add the flour and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Stir through the mini peanut butter cups and chocolate chips.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin.
- Melt the nutella for 10 seconds in the microwave and dollop spoonful's onto the top of the blondie mix. Use a skewer to create swirls in the mixture.
- Bake in the oven for 30 minutes and allow to cool completely before cutting into squares. I recommend placing them in the fridge (1 hour) or freezer (30 minutes) to help them set and make cutting easier.
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Notes
- The hardest part about making these blondies is leaving them long enough to cool. To speed up the process I recommend placing them in your freezer for 30 minutes or your fridge for an hour, before cutting them into bars.
- To get those clean-cut lines, make sure the blondies are cool, and use a long sharp knife to cut them. Wipe the knife clean (be careful when doing this!) between each cut.
- Use plain chocolate spread instead of Nutella.
- If you can't get hold of mini peanut butter cups, use peanut butter chips instead, or just up the quantity of chocolate chips.
- Use a mixture of white, milk, and dark chocolate chips.
- Once baked, scatter the top with crushed salted peanuts for added crunch and texture.
- Use dark brown sugar instead of light brown sugar for a darker, richer flavour to the Nutella blondies.
I'm linking this post up to #CookBlogShare which this week is hosted by Karen over at Lavender and Lovage!
Irina
WOW! These are for Nutella lovers like my family is! I am making it today to surprise my guys. Your recipe sounds amazing!
Julie Menghini
These are definitely addictive! Especially with the nutella, peanut butter cups and chocolate chips! Wow!
Sara Welch
Gave this a try this afternoon and it does not disappoint! Flavorful and decadent; exactly what I needed to cure my sweet tooth!
Carrie Robinson
My son LOVES Nutella! I will have to make these for him soon. 🙂
Priya Lakshminarayan
Wow! You had me at Nutella! Trying this for sure this Valentine's day. Looks amazing
Charla
I have such a weakness for anything that contains chocolate so these blondies are on my to do list.
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
I love that these don't take too long to make - they are the perfect treat! So delicious.
Mary
You had me at nutella! They were delicious!
Tara
These blondies look absolutely amazing with that swirl of Nutella! Wonderful texture too and I love how easily they come together.
Caroline
That swirl on top looks great and love those chunks of chocolate inside. Sounds nice and easy too.
Lesley
My children love baking and your nutella blondies are right up their street, what a great recipe.
Chichi
Nutella blondies are favorite around here. Yours look gorgeous with that swirl. Yum
Karen Booth
These look DROP DEAD GORGEOUS Beth, such a wonderful treat, and great for the biscuit tin, if they last that long! Thanks so much for linking up to #CookBlogShare week 6, Karen
Carrie Carvalho
Peanut butter cups AND Nutella? What more could you ask for?! These look absolutely incredible!
Jo Keohane
I love baking with Nutella and these look amazing. Will be adding these to my baking to do list for sure. Thank you, great recipe.
Choclette
Snap, I made blondies the other day too. But I have to say, yours are a lot prettier. When you have a sugar craving, there's nothing quite like whipping up a quick batch of blondies to satisfy it.
Kat (The Baking Explorer)
Two of my favourite things combined!
Kacie
I love the look of these! I am a bit Nutella fan and I've always preferred blondies to brownies.