Blondies!!!
This is only roughly a "blondie" in any normal sense of the word! Be warned! It's more like a small... muffin?
One summer when I was in college, I worked in my college's admission office full-time over the summer. My college was in the middle of actual nowhere, so this was a bit of a sacrifice. On the plus side I saved a TON OF MONEY. So kind of a win/lose situation. While I was there, I started a cooking blog on tumblr called "How to Make Delicious". You can find it here: http://howtomakedelicious.tumblr.com/. Let me tell you, I had A Lot of Time that summer because I wasn't living with people I knew super well at the time. Now, I know a number of them but at the time I was pretty lonely so I spent a lot of time on tumblr.
In the style of my How To Make Delicious era, I will be presenting ten steps to delicious blondies/muffins. These are WILDLY off-book, so I would suggest going up to the original recipe if you want something a little more "tried & true."
1) Find your blondie teacher. In general, I go first to Smitten Kitchen for my recipes but I was looking specifically for a blondie puck kind of deal. I don't know, it's what I was feeling. So I got the general structure of the recipe from https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-dorie-greenspans-blondies-238117.
2) Dorie told me to turn my oven to 325, so for once in my life I turned on the oven at the right time in the cooking process. I started out by getting out the ingredients: brown sugar, butter, honey, flour, salt, organic oats from Weatherbury Farms, coconut, and one (1) egg.
3) Try to melt the butter in your microwave but blow the circuit immediately. You don't know how to reset the electricity - you will wait until your roommate gets home to fix the problem. Instead, get out a pan and melt the butter on the stove and then let it cool slightly.
4) Dump 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar, about 1/4 tsp salt, and then add the slightly cooled melted butter. Mix VERY thoroughly! Very! Thoroughly!! Add 1 egg, which should be at room temperature OR you can hold it in your hands until it's slightly warm. And also add in one tablespoon of honey Mix that in very thoroughly as well.
5) Throw in your half a cup of flour! throw in half a cup of oats! throw in a quarter cup of shredded coconut! MIX that mix up!
6) The mixture should be something like peanut butter consistency. This is typically not what you should have in a recipe. To really make a better baked good I recommend you do the whole "let butter be at room temperature, whip it using a hand mixer until creamy, incorporate the other ingredients" thing.
7) Get out a muffin tin. I used it as you can easily clean muffin pans relative to other pans. And they pop out real easily for storage purposes. Spoon in your batter. I used eight normal sized muffin cups. Pop it in the oven.
8) This isn't a step.
9) After a while (mine took approximately 20 minutes? You could certainly cook it less) pull it out.
10) Guys. You have blondie muffins, now, probably. These do not have a ton of sugar in them are healthy seeming enough
At some point I may post a list of books that influenced me to convert to Catholicism, but first I have to build a bookshelf and unpack my books.
One summer when I was in college, I worked in my college's admission office full-time over the summer. My college was in the middle of actual nowhere, so this was a bit of a sacrifice. On the plus side I saved a TON OF MONEY. So kind of a win/lose situation. While I was there, I started a cooking blog on tumblr called "How to Make Delicious". You can find it here: http://howtomakedelicious.tumblr.com/. Let me tell you, I had A Lot of Time that summer because I wasn't living with people I knew super well at the time. Now, I know a number of them but at the time I was pretty lonely so I spent a lot of time on tumblr.
In the style of my How To Make Delicious era, I will be presenting ten steps to delicious blondies/muffins. These are WILDLY off-book, so I would suggest going up to the original recipe if you want something a little more "tried & true."
1) Find your blondie teacher. In general, I go first to Smitten Kitchen for my recipes but I was looking specifically for a blondie puck kind of deal. I don't know, it's what I was feeling. So I got the general structure of the recipe from https://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-dorie-greenspans-blondies-238117.
2) Dorie told me to turn my oven to 325, so for once in my life I turned on the oven at the right time in the cooking process. I started out by getting out the ingredients: brown sugar, butter, honey, flour, salt, organic oats from Weatherbury Farms, coconut, and one (1) egg.
3) Try to melt the butter in your microwave but blow the circuit immediately. You don't know how to reset the electricity - you will wait until your roommate gets home to fix the problem. Instead, get out a pan and melt the butter on the stove and then let it cool slightly.
4) Dump 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar, about 1/4 tsp salt, and then add the slightly cooled melted butter. Mix VERY thoroughly! Very! Thoroughly!! Add 1 egg, which should be at room temperature OR you can hold it in your hands until it's slightly warm. And also add in one tablespoon of honey Mix that in very thoroughly as well.
5) Throw in your half a cup of flour! throw in half a cup of oats! throw in a quarter cup of shredded coconut! MIX that mix up!
6) The mixture should be something like peanut butter consistency. This is typically not what you should have in a recipe. To really make a better baked good I recommend you do the whole "let butter be at room temperature, whip it using a hand mixer until creamy, incorporate the other ingredients" thing.
7) Get out a muffin tin. I used it as you can easily clean muffin pans relative to other pans. And they pop out real easily for storage purposes. Spoon in your batter. I used eight normal sized muffin cups. Pop it in the oven.
8) This isn't a step.
9) After a while (mine took approximately 20 minutes? You could certainly cook it less) pull it out.
10) Guys. You have blondie muffins, now, probably. These do not have a ton of sugar in them are healthy seeming enough
At some point I may post a list of books that influenced me to convert to Catholicism, but first I have to build a bookshelf and unpack my books.
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