We love bacon. We love bourbon and we love blondies (or any form of brownie, really) So what happens when you combine all of these things? Delicious Goodness, that’s what!
What You’ll Need:
3 cups All Purpose Flour
3 cups Dark Brown Sugar
2 tsp Baking Powder
1 tsp Salt
4 Eggs
3 tsp Vanilla
3 sticks melted Butter
1 cup Chocolate Chips (optional)
1 cup pecans or walnuts (optional)
Topping
2 packages of Bacon
Course Sea Salt
1/2 cup good quality Bourbon (We like Bulleit)
What you’ll do:
1. Adjust an oven rack to the middle position and preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 13 x 9 inch pan with nonstick cooking spray and line the bottom with parchment paper.
2. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
3. Whisk the melted butter and brown sugar in a bowl or stand up mixer until combined. Add eggs and vanilla and mix well. Using a rubber spatula, or on slow speed, fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture~ just until combined. Don’t over mix.
Fold in the chocolate chips and nuts, if using and turn the batter into the prepared 13 by 9 pan, smoothing out the top with the spatula. Set aside.
4. Fry bacon until crispy and chop into bite sized pieces. Sprinkle the bacon on top of the batter and use the palm of your hand to gently press the bacon into the batter.
5. Sprinkle with course sea salt.
6. Bake until the top is cracked and the middle is no longer wet (35-40 minutes).
7. Using a pastry brush, immediately brush the top of the blondies with the bourbon, using the entire 1/2 cup. (You may think you’re over doing it with that 1/2 cup, but trust us, you aren’t. Feel free to use more if you want a stronger bourbon flavor.)
8. Cool completely on a wire rack. I like to then chill them but you could eat them without that step.
*When we tried this recipe the first time we made a couple of mistakes. 1. not using the full amount of bourbon because we thought it would be too strong. We also over mixed which made it very thick and almost break like. Watch for those 2 things and you’ll have a delicious pan of blondies on your first try!
Enjoy!
Original recipe can be found here.
