White Chocolate & Caramel Blondies!
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Easy and delicious white chocolate & caramel blondies with caramel sauce and white chocolate chips!
White chocolate and caramel blondies
So, a very long time ago I had a caramel white chocolate blondie recipe on my blog. It was something that I liked to bake, but it was probably the worst recipe on my blog, ever. I can comfortably say that, as more often than not, it didn’t work for other people.
I never tended to personally have an issue with it, but maybe my explanation was off, or I was doing something extra without realising… but who knows. Either way, I binned the recipe off, and started again. Definitely better to fix it, rather than let people waste ingredients!
Blondie experimentation
I do get requests for the recipe to come back often, but I won’t post the original one (partly because I can’t remember it now) and partly because I would much rather post a brand new version, that I have tested countless times, and I know works well!
These beauties were born from all of the experimentation. One thing I will say though… they are different to my other blondies such as my white chocolate & raspberry blondies, and my white chocolate & pistachio blondies. This isn’t because I dislike my other blondies, I love them, I just found this mixture works much better with the caramel because otherwise it’ll just vanish to the bottom.
Caramel
The caramel is the tricky bit for the recipe, because whenever you bake with anything with caramel in, the caramel can explode, start boiling, and essentially ruin a recipe. I have tried countless times to get this bit right, and it finally works!
My mind always thought that maybe the people who made the original blondies used a different caramel to me (As they can often behave differently), but we will never know! For this one, as the blondie recipe itself is so different, it’s easier!
Cookie bars vs blondies
Recently I had someone ask what the difference between cookie bars and blondies were as they thought they looked the same. I get that the bake can sometimes look similar, but the recipes are completely different!
Cookie bars are literally just a cookie dough mixture, baked into a traybake instead of individual cookies. Blondies, are brownies but without the dark or milk chocolate. For these, you don’t actually use any chocolate which automatically makes them blonde in colour!
Some people will be pedantic and say ‘they’re still brownies’ but they are in fact very delicious and sweet blondies. That are incredible, and something not to be messed with! Yum.
Flavour
Anyway… instead of going overboard with the caramel like I may have done before – I decided to stick to a limit of 150g of caramel in the recipe. Too much, and it definitely doesn’t work. I’ve tried solid toffee style sweets, and they just melt and explode… and freezing caramel sauce balls doesn’t seem to work either.
Therefore, I just went for making the blondie with white chocolate chips, and then swirling through the caramel on the top. It gives the blondies a pretty pattern, and also gives you just enough caramel so as not to ruin them, but so you can taste it.
Bake
If your blondies are in the oven for far longer than the time says (you may have over mixed or your oven was the wrong temperature) then it may still go a little crazy, but I found it perfect.
I always bake my blondies until there is a slight wobble in the middle. I then take them out the oven, leave them to cool and then ‘set’ them in the fridge. In order to get a good set on a blondie, you must keep them in the fridge for at least 2 hours however I prefer leaving mine overnight for the best texture!
More blondies
They are deeeelicious and I am slightly obsessed. I have many more on my blog, both fruity and chocolatey flavours! I really recommend checking out my Jammie Dodger blondies, lemon and blueberry blondies but also my delicious white chocolate blondies and Rolo blondies are HEAVEN!
I have more blondie recipes coming soon because of the obsession. I have tested these bad boys many a time now, so I hope you love this new and improved recipe as much as I do! Enjoy! X
White Chocolate & Caramel Blondies!
Ingredients
- 200 g unsalted butter (melted) (see notes below)
- 125 g white granulated sugar
- 125 g light brown sugar
- 3 medium eggs
- 275 g plain flour
- 1 tbsp cornflour
- 200 g white chocolate chips
- 150 g thick caramel sauce
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan and line a 9x9" square tin with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, add your melted butter and sugars and beat until smooth.
- Add in the eggs and beat again until smooth.
- Add in the flour and cornflour and beat until a thick blondie mixture is made - it really doesn't take long to create this mixture!
- Add in your white chocolate and fold through!
- Pour the mixture into the tin, and spread. Dollop on the caramel, and lightly swirly through the blondie mixture.
- Bake the blondies in the oven for 30 minutes, or until there is an ever so slight wobble in the middle. (See notes below)
- Leave to cool in the tin. Drizzle over some extra caramel if you fancy!
Notes
- I've updated the butter quanitity to be 200g rather than 250g as it was occasionally being greasy for readers - if you liked it at the 250g quantitiy you can still use it!
- The bake time can vary - please make sure your oven is on the correct setting, and check from 25+minutes and onwards till they are baked! These took 30 minutes in my fan oven.
- If they turn out cakey, they are over baked - that's all! Bake for a little less time next time.
- One good tip if you aren't sure is to bake them till they have the wobble, and then once cooled, put them in the fridge for at least an hour to help 'set' them before cutting up!
- These will last in a cake tin for 4-5 days+
- I keep them at room temperature.
- I used Carnations caramel for the caramel - but do NOT add more than 150g to the mix unless you are 100% sure you've got the blondie mix right. If you add too much, it probably won't bake very well at all.
- The drizzle of caramel on top is completely optional!
ENJOY!
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I baked these today, but they were a little greasy, just like the triple chocolate brownies I baked yesterday. Do you think I should bake them for longer, lower the amount of butter or increase the amount of flour? They were delicious nonetheless.
Thank you
The greasy feeling can usually come from the chocolate chips I find, instead of the brownie/blondie – so it could be the chocolate. You can reduce the butter if you want, but that can change the texture x
Hi Jane, I have made these before and they were gorgeous, however I am really wanting to make caramel brownies! Could this be turned into a ‘brown’ blondie by adding cocoa powder and milk chocolate chips? What would you recommend? Thank you!
– if not, please please can you make caramel brownies for us!! …Also peanut butter brownies please 😀
Lizzie xx
My caramel and peanut butter brownie recipes are in my first ebook so I won’t be posting them on here any time soon unfortunately, but you can always try creating them from a different post on my blog x
Would this work with salted caramel sauce do you think?
Yes I’m sure it would!
Hi Jane,
I have just moved abroad and so don’t have an electric beater as I left mine at home and haven’t had everything shipped yet. I really want to feel at home by baking something though. Is it possible to bake these without an electric beater? Like just with your hand and a whisk / spoon / or fork ?
Thanks!
Ela
Yes for sure!! Just beat it in a bowl with a spatula or something and it will be fine! x
First time ever making blondies and they turned out amazing! So delicious and easy! Chilling them makes all the different never thought of that before for blondies and brownies (probably why my brownies never worked haha) Thanks for the recipe x
Hi.. no vanilla extract in this recipe?
No, but you can add some if you want?
Hi Jane ! ,
I’d really love to make wispa gold blondies – but there are no recipes online to make them 🙁 I think that this recipe looks like the perfect base to make them , though . I’m going to keep all of the ingredients the same , but I need to add wispa gold bars to the mixture , how many would you suggest adding ? And also , because they have caramel in the I’m worried that it will affect the baking time , how long would you say to bake them for ? 🙂 xxx
I would maybe maybe freeze the chunks of wispa gold, and replace the chocolate chips partially so you don’t over load the blondies – and then everything should be the same!
I love this recipe it was really tasty! Would you be able to use galaxy caramel instead of the white chips?X
You would want to freeze the galaxy caramel pieces as it may make it too soft with the other caramel, but it should work! X
Would you be able to add kinder chocolate to this? If so how much? And would you take the caramel sauce out too? Thank you x
I have a kinder version coming soon… but basically yes! x
Hi Jane, I love your blog. I’ve made a few of your cookies/ cakes. I really want to try making these but can I use anything else instead of cornflour? I can never seem to find it in the shops.
You can use 25g more flour, but the cornflour is designed for a lovely texture!
Hi Jane,
Thanks so much for sharing this recipe! I’m thinking of adding Maltesers and malt, do you think I could substitute a couple of tablespoons of flour with malt powder instead?
Thanks x
I would maybe replace 25g of flour with 50g malt powder! x
Hi Jane!
Looking to make these, however would love to use Milkybar white chocolate as the main flavour. Any recommendations or suggestions?
You can definitely use Milkybar as the chocolate you fold through and leave out the caramel if you want? Often it means they take a bit less time to bake without the caramel!
Love this recipe! Just made a second batch but I accidentally used self raising flour instead of plain flour.. do you think they will turn out okay?
They might be quite cakey, but otherwise it should be alright x
Hi Jane
Out of curiosity I see some blondies without white choc chips in them. Does this mean the white chocolate is melted and mixed through the mixture? Wondered if this would work with your blondie recipes rather than just putting in the chips as a whole
Thanks! Xx
My base blondie recipe does not use melted chocolate – I am working on a post for it, but you can’t just add it in unfortunately x
WOULD NOT RECOMMEND
I baked these and I did exactly what it said in the recipe although I did use homemade caramel although I don’t think this would have made a difference. They were in. the oven for about 50 minutes and the batter in the middle was still completely raw. they would not. look however long I put them in the oven for . It may have been something i have done but I don’t see what I have done wrong.
Unfortunately, the caramel can change it – but it wouldn’t cause them to be raw. The ‘raw’ can come from a few things such as the mixing process, oven, or ingredient swaps. Brownies/Blondies can be classically problematic for some people but as you can see from the photos they do work – it’s worth just switching things up such as how you are mixing it etc to see if that helps.