As an undergraduate at college, I worked in an organic chemistry research group on campus, bundled up in a long white lab coat, safety glasses, and bright purple protective gloves alongside the graduate students almost every day. We set up reactions, analyzed the results, and worked on trying to find and create molecules with anti-cancer potential.
Each summer, our head professor and his wife hosted a party for us, along with the grad students in her research group, at the park behind their house. They supplied most of the drinks and entrées to grill, including burgers, sausages, and vegetarian options, while the students brought sides and desserts to share.
Most people opted for something simple like chips and salsa or fruit salad, but I always baked something from scratch. Even then, I loved spending as much time in the kitchen as I could!
One summer, I searched online for easy dessert recipes to bring to a picnic. After a little poking around, I found that multiple websites recommend blondies, dessert bars with similar flavors as cookies but the fudgy-like texture of brownies. Some people even called blondies “vanilla brownies!”
But when I clicked over to the blondie bar recipes on those websites, I gasped…
They called for SO much butter!
Those recipes also said an 8”-square pan would yield 36 blondies… Which meant each dessert bar would be bite-sized. For a toddler.
No thanks!
I ended up finding and making a recipe for healthier chocolate cupcakes instead that year, but with summer and picnic season currently right around the corner, I’ve had blondies on my mind a lot lately…
So I finally developed a healthier version! These Healthy One-Bowl Flourless Chocolate Chip Blondies are sweet and buttery with a similar fudgy texture as brownies. They’re so easy to make too—just like the recipe title says, you just need one bowl!
Unlike those recipes I found in college, these ones are normal-sized dessert bars, not itty bitty bite-sized treats. These healthy blondies also contain no flour or refined sugar… And they’re just 91 calories!
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