In my opinion, this is the ultimate blondie recipe! This recipe creates decadent, brown butter blondies are filled with sweet white chocolate and your favorite raspberry jam. This is a very easy recipe to make and our white chocolate raspberry blondie recipe makes the perfect dessert to bring to your next BBQ or play date. These blondies are the perfect treat for an afternoon snack or special sweet treat for your kiddo's lunchbox!
I am a huge fan of blondies and they are truly one of my favorite things to make. I love a recipe that can be made in one bowl with simple ingredients. If you love blondies as much as I do, be sure to check out our Milk Chocolate Chip Blondies too!
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🍫 Ingredients
- unsalted butter - browned and cooled (see instructions for browning butter below)
- egg - use one large egg at room temperature
- pure vanilla extract - adds flavor and sweetness to the blondies
- light brown sugar - produces a chewy, caramel flavored blondie
- flour - use a regular, all purpose flour for this recipe
- salt - balances and enhances the flavors in the blondie
- raspberry jam - choose a high quality, thick jam for the recipe - I used the raspberry jam from Bonne Maman
- white chocolate - for best results, go with a good quality white chocolate bar - I used a Ghiradelli white baking bar. You can also use one cup of white chocolate chips for this recipe.
Be sure to see the recipe card for the full list of ingredients and detailed instructions.
🥣 Instructions
Brown the butter and transfer to a large bowl to cool. *See note below on how to make browned butter.
Add brown sugar to the melted butter. Mix well.
Add the egg and vanilla to the butter and brown sugar. Mix until well combined.
Fold the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
Fold the white chocolate into the dough.
Add the dough to a parchment lined 9 x 9 baking pan. Use your hands to spread the batter evenly into the pan.
Drop 16 teaspoons of raspberry jam onto the top of the dough in a 4 x 4 pattern.
Drag a sharp knife through the jam to spread it through the dough a bit.
Bake blondies for 350° for 17-18 minutes. Once blondies are completely cool, remove them from the pan, cut into 16 squares. Drizzle blondies with melted white chocolate.
Hint: Use a rubber spatula or your hands to spread the blondie dough into the pan - just press the dough around until you have a nice, even layer across the pan.
🍓 Substitutions
- Raspberry Jam - instead of using raspberry jam, you can try using a blackberry or strawberry jam - truly any jam would be delicious in this recipe
- White Chocolate - you can swap the white chocolate out for your favorite milk or dark chocolate
📦 Storage
Store the baked blondies at room temperature in an airtight container for 3-4 days. It's a good idea to move the blondies to the refrigerator if you plan to keep them around for more than 3-4 days.
🧈 How to Make Browned Butter
- Place butter in a small sauce pan and cook over medium heat until the butter becomes bubbly, fragrant and nutty smelling – swirl and stir as needed.
- Watch closely for small brown bits to begin forming on the bottom of the pan – this will happen around 5 minutes.
- As soon as you begin to see brown bits in the butter, remove the butter from the heat.
- Transfer butter to your mixing bowl and allow to cool for about 10 minutes before proceeding with your recipe.
- If you leave the butter in the pan it will continue to brown and could even become burnt.
🤓 Frequently Asked Questions About Making Blondies
Brown butter has been cooked on the stovetop. When you heat butter beyond the point of boiling, the water evaporates out of the butter, leaving the milk protein and butter fat behind. The milk protein will begin to brown as it cooks, creating "brown butter". Brown butter adds a nutty, caramelized flavor to your baked goods and is especially delicious in cookies, blondies and crisp toppings.
No - unless we are talking about the melted chocolate in a blondie, they should not be gooey. If the texture of the actually blondies (not the chocolate) is gooey, you may have had too much liquid in your batter or you did not cook the blondies long enough.
Brownies and blondies are both baked in a pan and cut into squares once cooled. Brownies will have a chocolate base, meaning cocoa powder, chocolate or both were added to the batter before baking. Blondies do not have the chocolate base and have more of a chocolate chip cookie look, flavor and structure.
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📖 Recipe
White Chocolate and Raspberry Blondies
Ingredients
For the Blondies
- ½ cup unsalted butter browned and cooled
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 ounces white chocolate coarsely chopped
- ½ cup raspberry preserves
For the White Chocolate Drizzle
- 2 ounces white chocolate coarsely chopped
Instructions
For the Brown Butter
- Place butter in a small sauce pan and cook over medium heat until the butter becomes bubbly, fragrant and nutty smelling – swirl and stir as needed.
- Watch closely for small brown bits to begin forming on the bottom of the pan – this will happen around 5 minutes.
- As soon as you begin to see brown bits in the butter, remove the butter from the heat
- Transfer butter to your mixing bowl and allow to cool for about 10 minutes before proceeding with your recipe.
- If you leave the butter in the pan it will continue to brown and could even become burnt.
For the Blondies
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line a 9 x 9 inch square baking pan with parchment paper making sure that the paper comes up the edges of the pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the brown butter and light brown sugar - mix until well combined. Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Gently fold in the salt and flour.
- Fold 2 ounces of the white chocolate chunks into the batter.
- Using a spatula or your hand, spread the batter evenly into your prepared pan.
- Add dollops of raspberry jam to the top of the blondie batter. Drag a sharp knife through the jam and batter to spread the jam out just a bit.
- Bake blondies for 17-18 minutes or until the edges are golden brown.
- Remove blondies from oven and allow to cool in the baking pan, on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes. Use the edges of the parchment to pick up and move the blondies to a cooling rack. Cool for an additional 30-45 minutes before cutting into squares.
For the White Chocolate Drizzle
- Using the microwave, melt the other half (2 ounces) of white chocolate chunks. Warm on high in 30 second intervals, stirring after each round of 30 seconds. Once the chocolate is melted and pourable, drizzle the blondies with the melted white chocolate.
- Allow the white chocolate time to set up and become solid again before serving blondies.
Nutrition
Cathleen
Looks awesome, can I use dark chocolate instead?
Amanda Smallwood
Absolutely!! Will be delicious!!!