Chippy Blonde Brownies

No, I didn't pick the name, LOL and I think if I were to name them, which, ok ok I will REname them now, I would/will call them : Golden Cash Brownies sounds funny, but I put cashews in them and mmm mmm mmm! So Here is my first food blog entry! After looking through Taste of Home's Cookie Cookbook ( I LOVE Taste of Home!) I found and modified a great blondie brownie recipe! We made it tonight, not sure if the power was going to stay on and cooperate or not... so far so good! ha! We have been having a string of crazy weather, and it has been accompanied by a string of power outages! I'm pretty sure the mayonnaise will need to be thrown out if it goes through one more power outage! Ha ha! Ok , Ok , on to "brownies". By the way, I didn't know that brownies didn't have to be chocolate! LOL!

Golden Cash Brownies

15 mins Prep, 25-35 mins Bake Time

Ingredients:

6 Tablespoons Butter, softened NOT melted.

1 Cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

1 Tsp Vanilla Extract

1 1/4 Cup All Purpose Baking Flour ( I like Wheat Montana Premium Baking Flour)

1 Tsp Baking POWDER

1/2 Tsp Salt

1 Cup semi sweet Chocolate Chips ( I like Godiva Milk Chocolate Chips) (or Hershey Mini Kisses)

1/2 Cup semi crushed or chopped Cashews

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.

Cream sugar and butter until light and fluffy ( I use a hand mixer because I have wrist problems, but you can use a spatula or nylon mixing spoon, however you like to do it. A mixer is super fast and easier). add eggs one at a time, beating each one well. Beat in vanilla.

Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt together and add gradually while beating/mixing mixture. stir in (by hand) choc chips and nuts. The nuts are optional of course, due to allergies, but they are good! I suggest adding them. Pour into a sprayed ( i use olive oil spray, you can grease your pan however you like) You can use a cake pan or brownie pan depending on how thick you want your brownies, they don't puff up very much, so as long as you have clearance in your pan, it shouldn't bake over! You could even use cupcake or mini cupcake pans if you want them to be pre-portioned. baked at 350 for 25-35 mins depending on your pan. A knife or toothpick should be able to be inserted into middle of pan and come out clean.

These are really good alone, but super good with vanilla bean ice cream! I plan to serve them with afternoon tea, Target had these GREAT Calypso Elephant Tea Pots! Yay for Tea "Parties"! Enjoy!