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 love CA and as discussed on email from San Diego to LA to the central coast Monterrey/Santa Barbara, on up to San Fran and the Bay Area, Tahoe, Napa/Sonoma…seriously it’s a HUGE state, you could start at one end and drive to the other, or halfway, you could spend an entire week (or month) in San Fran/Bay area and never see it all; you could vineyard hop in Napa/Sonoma, you could come hang out with me in San Diego…you would LOVE IT in Ca. I promise!!! I’ll be your tour guide 🙂
And sprinkles, mmmm, good. They make the world a better place!
Tropical vacations are my favorite (or at least somewhere warm!) Cozumel and La Jolla, CA are my faves! I did LOVE DC and NYC, though…and I’m contemplating a white water rafting trip to Canada sometime in the fall!
Come to LA! Those brownies look amazing. Those are some lucky kids!
These bloldies look so fun! Very kid friendly 🙂
As for vacation spots there are so many good ones it all depends on what you’re looking for! I love costa rica for surf an yoga but Boston is by far my favorite big city in America! Lucky me I get to stay up there for a whole month this July for my veterinary internship 🙂 soo excited!!
So cute 🙂
But I really love the National parks in Utah. Gorgeous. Zion is spectacular. So peaceful, and you can take hikes, have picnics, and great photos!
Ohh, funfetti!
We usually go to some sort of beach. NYC is always fun! What about Florida or, if you’re looking for something historic, another city on the east coast other than NYC? Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Richmond? Savannah, GA is a beautiful place, too!
Do you know if the kids liked the food?
Not yet! Haha jury’s still out!
Hmm, I love going out west, all sorta of amazing views and things to see there.
I am going to Guatemala on the 2nd for a mission trip! So, I am all for going out of the country. I don’t know your religion or anything, but if you are involved in a church, getting involved in missions is usually a cheaper way to travel and you get to give back to people 🙂
I love sprinkles! I completely agree that they make everything taste better! after all, taste, in my opinion, also consists of other aesthetic characteristics, especially looks (and smell)
If something doesn’t look pretty, i REALLY don’t want to eat it.
Oh — and I made your cookie dough dip for dinner yesterday and I ate the entire bowl by myself (granted i halved the recipe but oh well haha) and it was really yummy! for me, it was a bit liquidy so i added some oats to thicken it up a bit. I used cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter and left out the sugar. it was delicious, and SUPER fillin! garbanzo beans are SO healthy. Thanks, katie! you rocked my tummy once again!
xxxx alexandra
You have awesome tastebuds, eating the dip for dinner! I can only imagine how awesome cookie dough for dinner was! 😉
Washington DC is awesome…free museums, zoo, embassies, parks etc. Metro is fast, easy, clean and safe Lots of history/culture and great for walking though it’s hot and humid in the summer.