(The original Starbucks version)
I don’t even remember what initially attracted me to them: the presentation, the cranberries, or perhaps just the promise of a baked ‘bliss’:). Either way, I was hooked after my first bite. Described on the Starbucks website as: ‘A blondie cake base, topped with sweet cream cheese icing and tart dried cranberries, garnished with white orange drizzle.’ You expect the base to be solid but it really just melts in your mouth, it is definitely a weakness when I enter a Starbucks this time of year!
Last year I made the bars with no issue and they turned out deliciously! This year, I decided to attempt making them in my ‘perfect brownie pan’ figuring that they would be super easy to divide if they were precut. Well, this was definitely a mistake. I would assume this is why the pan is not called ‘the perfect square pan’. Brownies, as we all know, are extremely dense and cook differently then a normal sqaure recipe. But on a side note, even as I’m typing this, I’m realizing that blondies are just white chocolate brownies so that explanation doesn’t even make sense. I have yet to use the pan for an actual brownie recipe so I’m sure that will be the next step in this investigation. Anyway, getting back on track, I had a real problem with the bars cooking properly in the pan. I had to over cook them to make sure that they were baked and was disappointed with the result. On a positive note I took my ‘ruined’ batch to work and they were received extremely well! So all was not lost. My family voted these as a new addition to our holiday traditions, so maybe all that Starbucks marketing does work? Hmm…
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