These Apple Blondies are incredibly soft, chewy and loaded with fresh apple chunks, white chocolate chips and walnuts. An easy one bowl recipe that is a perfect sweet treat.
This post may contain affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Click HERE to read my policies.
Why We Love These Apple Blondies
- A simple one bowl recipe with simple ingredients. No mixer needed.
- This blondies recipe comes together fast and makes the house smell amazing.
- The apple blondies turn out soft and chewy like a classic brownie.
- Filled with amazing flavors of cinnamon, fresh apple, white chocolate chips and walnuts.
- Absolutely delicious! Serve them ala mode for an over the top dessert.
Apple Blondies Recipe Ingredients
- Salted Butter
- Light Brown Sugar
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Large Egg
- All Purpose Flour
- Cinnamon
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Chopped Apples
- Chopped Walnuts
- White Chocolate Chips
Substitution Suggestions
- Salted Butter: Feel free to use unsalted butter, but I suggest adding an additional ½ teaspoon of salt to the batter.
- Pure Vanilla Extract: Pure extracts are the best to use. Imitation extracts can leave an unwanted after taste in your baked goods.
- All Purpose Flour: Whole wheat flour or white whole wheat flour can be substituted. Whole wheat flour will make the blondies a bit darker and more dense but just as delicious.
- Chopped Apples: Any type of apple with work. I typically use apples from my trees or Honeycrisp apples. Although Granny Smith apples are extra delicious too! Their tartness helps cut the sweetness in the bars. You can use your favorite, some from a friend's apple tree, or whatever is cheapest at the store.
- Chopped Walnuts: Pecans would be a great substitute. Or you can omit the nuts all together.
- White Chocolate Chips: I love white chocolate with blondies, but you can use any type of chocolate. Semi-sweet chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips are all delicious options. You could also use peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips.
How to Make Apple Blondies
- First, preheat the oven to 350°F and line a 9x13 baking dish with parchment paper leaving an inch overhang over the long sides. Or grease the baking dish well with nonstick cooking spray.
- Next, in a microwave safe bowl or in a sauce pan over low heat, melt the butter.
- In a large bowl whisk together the melted butter and brown sugar.
- Now, add the vanilla extract and egg. Whisk very well.
- With a spatula, stir in the dry ingredients: all purpose flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt just until combined.
- Then fold in the chopped apples, chopped walnuts, and white chocolate chips until fully incorporated.
- Spread the blondie batter in an even layer in the prepared dish.
- Bake blondies in preheated oven on center rack for 30-35 minutes until the top is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.
- Let blondies cool completely, then slice and serve.
Looking for more apple desserts? Here are some of our favorites:
Storing Cinnamon Apple Blondies
Storing: These apple blondies are best stored in an airtight container in the fridge. Since they contain fresh apples they can become a bit soggy. You can store them at room temperature in an airtight container, but they'll only last a few days.
Freezing: These freeze great. Place them in a freezer safe airtight container or zip top bag between layers of wax paper. Or you can individually wrap each blondie in plastic wrap and then place in freezer safe container or zip top bag. Don't forget to label and date! Freeze apple blondies for up to 4 months.
Thawing: Remove apple blondies from freezer, unwrap if needed and let thaw on the counter for at least 30 minutes.
Heather's Favorite Tools for this Recipe
- These nestled mixing bowls are my favorite for prepping ingredients.
- Long ago, I used to be a Pampered Chef consultant and I still prefer their baking tools and pans to any others. They're baking pans are the ones I primarily use. Find yourself a consultant, host a party and treat yourself to a set.
- I really like these Pyrex baking dishes too!
- An offset spatula is my favorite tool to use for evenly spreading the batter into the baking dish.
- This ice cream scoop is the best. It makes dishing out hard ice cream easily.
Tips for Apple Blondies
- Gather all your ingredients before you start baking. It is so much easier to bake when all your ingredients are ready. Plus, there is less room for error. Like forgetting an essential ingredient. I'm not saying I've done this, however, I am speaking from experience!
- Always read the recipe from start to finish before you start. Again, I am speaking from experience.
- Use room temperature ingredients. It helps the batter come together better.
- After adding the egg, whisk like your life depends on it. The more airy the batter gets, the more crackly top you'll create.
- Always fluff your flour and then spoon and level it to measure. Doing this will prevent too much flour from being added and ultimately making the blondies dry.
- For a smaller batch, cut the recipe in half and bake in a 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish.
- For the best blondies and best results don't overbake them, you want the blondies to be soft and chewy.
- For easy removal, line the baking dish with parchment paper. This will allow you to remove the entire pan of blondies all at once and then slice easily.
- To get clean cuts, line the baking pan with parchment paper then once the bars are cooled lift them out of the pan. Using a sharp knife, slice in one smooth cut. Do not use a sawing motion to cut bars. Wipe the knife clean between cuts.
- Serve them with a scoop of vanilla ice cream for an over the top dessert sundae!
FAQs
Blondies are typically referred to as blonde brownies. They both have the same chewy, gooey texture but usually blondies will have no cocoa powder or chocolate.
Blondies are mostly chewy and yes gooey. To get that perfect texture, don't overbake the blondies. Once the edges are golden brown and starting to pull away from the edges of the dish and the top no longer looks wet they are done baking. The bars will continue to bake in the dish as it cools so under baking them just a bit is a must to get the perfect gooey fudgy texture.
Most people will say that aluminum pans are the best for blondies, brownies and baked goods because they conduct heat the most evenly. They are right too, aluminum is the way to go when baking cakes and cookies. I like baking blondies or brownies in glass pans and all the professional bakers will probably argue with me about it. I like glass pans because the center of the brownies are guaranteed to be chewy. This happens because the glass takes longer to conduct heat. I do agree with the professionals that dark non-stick pans are not good for baking. They conduct heat too fast and aggressively and that can burn the bottom and edges of your baked goods. If you use an aluminum metal pan or glass dish you will end up with tasty blondies.
More Bar and Brownie Recipes:
- Brookie Bars
- Classic Brownies
- Butterscotch Brownies
- S'mores Bars
- Peanut Butter and Jelly Bars
- Monster Cookie Bars
- Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies
- Sugar Cookie Bars
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Dark Chocolate Walnut Brownies
Did you make this recipe? Rate it!
If you enjoyed this recipe give it a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating in the comments below. It really helps the recipe stand out and I appreciate the feedback to make recipes everyone will enjoy.
Apple Blondies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup salted butter, melted
- 1½ cups brown sugar
- 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ cup chopped apples
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish with parchment paper leaving an inch overhang over two opposite sides. Or grease the baking dish well with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter and the brown sugar.
- Add the vanilla extract and egg. Whisk very well.
- With a spatula, stir in the dry ingredients: all purpose flour, cinnamon, baking powder and salt just until combined.
- Fold in the chopped apples, chopped walnuts, and white chocolate chips until fully incorporated.
- Spread the blondie batter in an even layer in the prepared dish.
- Bake blondies in preheated oven on center rack for 30-35 minutes until the edges and top are golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean.
- Let blondies cool completely, then slice and serve.
Leave a comment