One of my friends is a first-year kindergarten teacher. She wanted to bring in a treat for the kids, to celebrate the end of their school year.
So she looked through my list of Chocolate Covered Katie 500+ Healthy Dessert Recipes.
After much deliberation, she finally decided on blondies. We spent the afternoon in the kitchen, making blondies for her lucky students.
We used the recipe for my White Bean Blondies, then we threw in 2 tablespoons of sprinkles (pre-baking). We also subbed a combination of applesauce and oil for the peanut butter, because snacks at my friend’s school must be peanut-free. Here’s the modified recipe:
Funfetti Blondies
(makes 15-20 squares)
- 1 1/2 cups chickpeas or white beans (1 can, drained and rinsed) (250g after draining)
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- level 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar or coconut sugar or xylitol
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup ground flax or quick oats (20g)
- 1/4 cup peanut butter (or Earth Balance or veg or coconut oil)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 2-4 tbsp sprinkles, plus more for the tops if desired
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend all ingredients (except chips) until very smooth in a food processor (not a blender). Mix in chips, and scoop into a greased (or tinfoil-lined) 8×8 pan. Optional: for “prettiness” you can stick some chocolate chips on top of the batter as well. Bake for around 30 minutes. They’ll look a little undercooked when you take them out, but they firm up as they cool, and you don’t want them to get too hard.
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What are your favorite vacation spots?
I want to plan a vacation for this summer, and have no idea where to go. I’m leaning towards NYC, since it’s one of my favorite places in the world and I usually go there every summer. But maybe I should try something different. California, Portland, Boston… all are in the running!
I just made these and subbed pumpkin for the peanut butter and added some cinnamon and allspice. My kitchen smells so good right now!
Your recipes never cease to amaze me! I will be making these asap once the work week is done!
Katie,
Could you possibly use steel cut oats, bulgur, or whole wheat flour in place of the ground oats? I’m fresh out of oats…
Thanks!
Sorry, I haven’t tried so I really don’t know 😕
I’ve re-read this and thought I’d comment on your vacation spot… You should come up to Canada and visit Canmore in Alberta. Beautiful mountains – trails for skiing and hiking… We try and go there every year. (It’s only 4 hours from us) 😉
the batter tastes so good, they also taste so good too. great vacation snack for kids and adults. great idea my whole family loves it for dessert and great party snack . i love blondies they are so good
great for kids and and adults for a snack
Well I can certainly show you how to not make these the easy way… lol. They are baking now. Seem really liquid still at the 25 minute mark. I didn’t have a 8 by 8 pan only a 12 by 9 and I thought that wouldn’t work well so I did muffin cups so I’m going to leave them in longer. I also didn’t have baking powder so I subbed vinegar, I have previously with success but I think that for this recipe my cream of tartar ratio mix might work better. The batter still tasted pretty good. I’m going to try again tonight when I make white bean gratin to do this and pick up some baking powder. I’ll let you know how the cups turn out if they do at all lol
Have you ever tried to use aquafaba in these instead of oil or nut butter? I’m trying to cut back on fat from nuts and I don’t use oil. Think it would work? Thanks!!!