Dulce de Leche Blondies
These Dulce de Leche Blondies are perfectly chewy and filled with a gooey caramel center. You might want to make a double batch, because these babies go fast!
If I’m anything, it’s a chocolate lover. It’s hard to get through the day without a little bit of chocolate, whether it’s a handful of M&Ms or my beloved Iced White Chocolate Mocha from Starbucks (TOTAL addict over here). How about you? Are you a member of the chocoholics club, too? Or a fellow SB’s lover? 😉
Normally when I’m enjoying a brownie, the more fudgy, chocolatey, and decadent the better. Seriously, is there really such a thing as too much chocolate? But when I first saw this recipe for Dulce de Leche Blondies, I just knew they were going to happen. Have you ever had a blondie before? They’re like a brownie’s delicious second cousin, just minus the chocolate. They’re amazing, and even better when you spruce ’em up Dulce de Leche style. I mean, a layer of gooey caramel in the middle of perfectly chewy blondie layers? Goodness.
When I made these, I didn’t have time to photograph them right away, so I packaged them up to shoot the next day. I knew this was going to be hard on my husband, who does not like having to wait for pictures to be taken before he gets to eat something. ESPECIALLY when it’s dessert. So when he came home from work, I told him he could eat ONE. Well, I walked out of the room for a minute and when I came back… lo and behold, there he is halfway through his THIRD blondie! He claims he didn’t hear me say to only eat one, but the deer-in-the-headlights look he had makes me think otherwise. 😉 So just be forewarned, you may need to make a double batch of these. They don’t last long!
Recipe: Dulce de Leche Blondies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (14 oz) package caramels
- 1/2 cup evaporated milk
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13x9 baking pan and set aside.
- In a medium sized bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until creamy. Add in eggs and vanilla and beat until smooth. Gradually add in the flour mixture, beating over low speed.
- Spread 1/2 of mixture into the bottom of prepared baking pan, using a spatula to spread evenly. Bake in preheated oven for 7-8 minutes.
- While bottom layer is baking, begin melting caramels in the evaporated milk in a medium sized saucepan over very low heat. Stir frequently until completely melted and smooth, about 10 minutes.
- Reserve about 1/3 cup melted caramel for drizzling over finished blondies. Pour remaining caramel over baked layer. Drop dollops of remaining dough over caramel layer, and swirl slightly with a knife. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in pan on wire rack.
- When completely cooled, cut into squares. Reheat reserved caramel (I heated mine in the microwave) and drizzle over the top of the blondies. Enjoy!
Notes
Want some other delicious desserts? You might like these:
Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars
Mini Nutella Swirl Oreo Cheesecakes
Cherry Coke Float Cupcakes
WOW! These look INCREDIBLE! Honestly, I’m speechless, I just keep staring at your gorgeous pics!
Girl, you are too sweet! Thank you for saying that and making my day!
Thanks so much for sharing your awesome post with Full Plate Thursday and have a fabulous day!
Hope to see you soon,
Miz Helen
Thanks so much, Miz Helen!
I am obsessed with anything dulce de leche related.. Definitely wish I had one of these blondies to devour right now. They look incredible!
Thank you so much, Thalia! I think it might be a new obsession of mine now, too!
In the spirit of “I need to make these right now” I’m going to try them with a can of caramel in stead of the packet (as that’s what I have) I will be back later today to report how it went!
Ooo that sounds like a good idea, Julie! Definitely let me know how they turned out! 🙂
Well, they are delicious! But my mix was very stiff, I could roll it into balls and it made spreading the top layer really difficult. I am wondering if I got my quantities wrong. I’m in the Uk but I do have cup measuring things and used them for most ingredients. I think it might be the butter, I used 8oz as my conversion chart tells me 1 cup if 8oz, does that sound right?
That said they are all gone now so no worries! The tin of caramel worked great as it was kind of like the melted caramels and evap milk but already done for me!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them, Julie! You have the measurements correct, but I will say that it is meant to be a bit thicker of a dough, and when I did the top layer, I just dropped little clumps of it on top and then spread it around with the knife (in a swirl pattern), not worrying too much about it being completely spread out. It spreads a bit as it bakes. It shouldn’t be too stiff though, so I’m not sure exactly what happened! I’m so glad to hear that the tin of caramel worked out, though! That sounds like a perfect little shortcut! Thank you so much again, Julie! 🙂
These look delicious! I love caramel! I stumbled upon your blog via Pinterest and I just wanted to say that I live in Hawaii, too. 🙂
Yay Alison! I’m so glad you found my blog, and aloha! Island living is pretty awesome. 🙂
There’s not much that I like better than dulce de leche, and you are genius to pair it with blondies!! Thank you for sharing this with us at Treasure Box Tuesday- pinned and shared on Facebook! 🙂
Thank you so much, Joy! And I really appreciate you sharing on FB! 🙂
Stopping in to share that you’ve bee featured tonight at Foodie Friday’s. Hope to see you there!
Blessings,
Shari
Thank you, Shari! I’m so excited to be featured, I just love Foodie Fridays!!! 🙂
oh I am going to crave these all day now! Thanks for sharing on Weekend Bites
Oh thank you, Adelina!
I love Dulce de Leche! I actually make my own homemade version and then add it to some homemade dark chocolate brownies – It’s a big hit!
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Goodness that sounds amazing! I’ve never had dark chocolate brownies, but i kinda think I need them now. YUM!
I don’t know how I could resist those. They look SO good! I wish I had one now. Pinning and stumbling!
Thank you so much, Michelle. And I appreciate you sharing! 🙂
I’m drooling over these bars! Look at that caramel! Pinned and definitely making soon.
Thank you so much, Ashley!
I don’t think these would last long in our house either! They look so good!
Thank you, Ashley! These definitely did a little disappearing act. 😉 Hope you’re having a nice weekend.
Oh my! These look sensational.
Thank you so much, Kaz!
I’m a total chocolate lover too.. but blondies are always nice! These look amazing Ashlyn!
Thanks girl! Chocolate is hard to beat, but a blondie is right up there with it! 🙂
I love dulce de leche in EVERYTHING… great post. So nice to have found your blog on the Weekend re-Treat link party 🙂
Yay! I’m so glad you found me, too! And yes….dulce de leche is amazing!!!
These look so fabulously delicious! I’m going to have to try a White Chocolate Mocha!!! I’ve recently been branching out and tried a Caramel Macchiato. I’m usually just a latte girl.
Oh yes, Caramel Macchiatos are my other fave drink! Give the White Chocolate Mocha a try…. it is amazing!