Blondies

I am not going to take credit for this one. It comes from one of my all time favorite sources for recipes. Cook's Illustrated is a long time time magazine that you have to see to understand. They go through and test the heck out of each recipe until it is perfect. I have tried many of their recipes and have yet to not like them. They also have a show on PBS, and it is my all time favorite cooking show, and it is on public tv, it is called America's Test Kitchen. Here they show how to make the recipes found in Cook's Illustrated. It is from one of the Test Kitchen cookbooks I give you this recipe. It is called The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book. It is a great book full of 700 baking recipes. They all look so good. I want to do like the movie Julie and Julia and try all of them in a year, but I don't have the money, or the calories to waste. Maybe someday.

Enough of all my chatting. Here is the recipe.

Blondies
From The America's Test Kitchen Family Baking Book

1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
12 TBSP unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 1/2 cups paked light brown sugar
2 large eggs
4 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup pecans, toasted

Adjust an oven rack to the middle postition and heat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 13 by 9-inch baking pan with a foil sling and greast the foil. Whisk the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl.

In a large bowl, whisk the butter and sugar together. Whisk in the eggs and vanilla until combined. Stir in the flour mixture until just incorporated. Shir in the chips and nuts.

Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake the blondies until a toothpick insterted into the center comes out with just a few moist crumbs attached, 22 to 25 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through baking.

Let the blondies cool completely in the pan, set on a wire rack, about 2 hours. Remove the blondies from the pan using the foil, cut into squares, and serve.

I hope you enjoy them as much as my family does. They are AMAZING. Happy baking!