Funfetti Blondies

A blondie is the cake you make when you want cookies and the cookies you have when you can't be bothered rolling them into individual balls. This blondie recipe is a melt and mix wonder and if you skip the icing, you won't even need the beaters.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 100 g butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/3 cup hundreds and thousands
• 2 tbs hundreds and thousands

• Method

  • STEP 1Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Grease and line a 33cm x 22cm lamington or slice tin.
  • STEP 2In a large mixing bowl combine the sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla. Mix until just combined.
  • STEP 3Add the flour, baking powder and salt to the bowl and mix to combine. Stir in the 1/3 cup of hundreds and thousands.
  • STEP 4Spread the mixture into the prepared tin and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Cool on a wire rack and cut into squares.
  • STEP 5To make the icing, put the icing sugar and softened butter into a bowl and beat with electric beaters on high, until combined. Add the milk and beat further until the mixture puffs up a bit and is smooth and creamy.
  • STEP 6Ice your blondies with a big slather of buttercream icing and top them off with a generous sprinkle of hundreds and thousands.

  • Notes

    This recipe makes 12 - 16 depending on how big you cut the squares.
    An easier option is to ice the whole blondie before cutting it, but I wanted the individual look of cookies, so I cut first and iced them individually.
    The texture of these is somewhere between a cookie and a slice.