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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Hi Jane,
I want to try these but only have large eggs will it make that much difference? Or should I use 2?
Thanks
Large eggs should be fine for these! xx
Hello
I love this blondie recipe, I’ve made it lots of times along with the Bakewell blondie recipe which is a favourite in our house.
I know this recipe will keep for up to five days In an airtight box, but I’d like to know does it freeze?
Thank you
Hey! Ahh I’m so glad you like them!! And yes they freeze well xx
Heya jane these are amazing !! Anyway you can do this in cookie bar format? So white choc and caramel cookie bar xx
Hey! It’s on my list!! X
Hi, just going to try these any only have milk and dark chocolate. Would this work the same?
I love your recipes. Absolutely adore everything I’ve tried x
Hey! Yes you can switch out the white chocolate chips/chunks for milk or dark! And thank you!! x
Just made these with home made caramel & put it over half & put strawberry jam over the other half, delicious 😋 I use a lot of your recipes & they always turn out great! X
How can I make these into caramac blondies. Can I take away the chocolate chips and used chopped caramac instead
Hi Jane,
I made these recently and they came out perfect, thank you! Would the same recipe work to put jam on top and swirl through instead of the caramel? I’ve always thought about doing a Jammie dodger traybake but not sure if this recipe would work well with the jam and then placing the mini Jammie dodgers on top or would this affect the bake?
Thanks in advance!
Hey! I’m yet to get around to posting my Jammie dodger version haha but yes basically that’s the easiest way! x
Hey Jane! I just had a question. Do you make your own caramel? If so, what’s the recipe? I can’t find any in stores.
There’s a homemade caramel sauce recipe on my blog you can use!!
Hi Jane, I love all of your recipes. I can’t get light brown sugar anywhere at the moment, would this recipe work with just the granulated sugar?
Thanks! x
Hey! Yes it would work perfectly with just granulated x
What would the temperature be for a normal conventional oven and how long for? 🙂 x
180C for about the same time! x
I just baked these in a larger tin ( one of those rectangular foil disposable ones) because I didn’t mind if they came out little less thick, I baked them for 23 mins and they turned into a cake 🙁
If I wanted to use a larger tin again could I bake them for just 20 mins or even less?
Yes the larger the tin, the quicker they will bake if you don’t increase the ingredients. The answer depends entirely on what size the tray is?
Hi! Can you use dark brown sugar instead of light?
Yes, it will just change the flavour/colour slightly! x
This looks so good! Do you think I could sub the caramel for peanut butter to make a peanut butter blondie?
Yes!!
Can’t wait to try this recipe! Would it work putting half the mixture into the tin and swirling half the caramel, then the second half of the mixture with the remainder of the caramel swirled on top? Or would it only work with the caramel on the top?
Thanks x
That will probably cause the caramel to sink too much – generally I just recommend swirling on the top! x
Hi Jane! Can I use baking powder instead of cornflour?
No, they are completely different things – just leave it out.
Hi Jane,
How would you adapt the recipe to fit an 8 inch tin? Love your recipes! ❤️
Hey! Is that a square 8″ or circle 8″? the website website to look at is this one – http://www.cakebaker1.co.uk/apps-for-bakers/baking-tin-size-conversion-calculator/
Hello Jane, Would it be possible to make these blondies without the caramel? So just have whit chocolate ones instead??
Thanks
Hey! Yes you can – sometimes without the caramel they can bake a bit quicker!