I know that I am little late with my 12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies post, but I promise that these ooey gooey blondies will make up for it. I have been trying to finish this post all morning. But that is life right?
Not only does this make an adorable gift, but these Toffee Blondies are insane. Sweet, crunchy, and full of toffee bits. The jar looks adorable and is minimal effort. I even gave you the recipe card so all you have to do is cut it out and tie it to your jar with some bakery twine.
You can do that right? Of course you can.
*edited to add – I cannot take credit for this idea at all… I got the whole thing, including packaging, from a BHG magazine called Food Gifts. *
For the jar:
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1/2 cup Heath Chips
1 quart size mason jar
To make the Toffee Blondies:
the contents of the jar
1/4 cup melted butter
2 lightly beaten eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Layer the brown sugar, chocolate chips, flour, baking powder, salt, Heath chips, and pecans. I used a 1/4 cup measure to get the contents in jar. Try to level out the ingredients a little better than I did. You want it to look pretty. It is a gift after all.
To make the Toffee Blondies, melt some butter in a bowl. Whisk in the eggs and vanilla.
Pour in the contents of the jar. Even that looks pretty doesn’t it?
Mix it all up.
Pour the batter in an 8x8x2 pan coated with cooking spray. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until the blondies are set and start to pull away from the sides of the pan. Cool in the pan and cut into 16 bars.
OMG. Those look pretty delicious.
This is what I used to package the jars. I printed the recipe cards out on white card stock and cut them out using my paper cuter. I tied the card to the jar with bakery wine. That. was. it. Two minutes tops.
Seriously cute huh?
Chocolate. Heath chips. Pecans. What else is there?
As I was cleaning up after my little shoot with the Toffee Blondies, I was making my friend Corey a care package. I wrapped the blondies in parchment paper and wrapped it like a sandwich and tied it up with some bakery twine. I attached a little tag that I inked the edges of. It is so cute that I had to share it with you.
If you were wondering why it took me all day to write this post. See above.
Click on the image and you can download the recipe card.
Week 4 Twelve Weeks of Christmas:
Ingredients
- For the jar:
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 1/2 cup Heath Chips
- 1 quart size mason jar
- To make the Toffee Blondies:
- the contents of the jar
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 2 lightly beaten eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Layer the brown sugar, chocolate chips, flour, baking powder, salt, Heath chips, and pecans. I used a 1/4 cup measure to get the contents in jar. Try to level out the ingredients a little better than I did. You want it to look pretty. It is a gift after all.
- To make the Toffee Blondies, melt some butter in a bowl. Whisk in the eggs and vanilla.
- Pour in the contents of the jar. Even that looks pretty doesn’t it?
- Mix it all up.
- Pour the batter in an 8x8x2 pan coated with cooking spray. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until the blondies are set and start to pull away from the sides of the pan. Cool in the pan and cut into 16 bars.
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I don’t know if I want to give these or receive these. Either way I can’t wait
The cookies look beautiful!
Tracy recently posted..12 weeks of Cookies Week 4
Thanks Tracy!
Yum, what a delicious gift idea. These toffee blondies would make anyone happy.
Lisa recently posted..12 Weeks of Christmas Cookies – Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies
I hope so… everyone that ate them loved them. that is a good sign right?
I love your packaging ideas! These look wonderful!
thank you April!
I always getting excited coming to your blog- such great inspiration from your recipes to crafty things! These blondies are fabulous!
Jennifer @ Maple n Cornbread recently posted..White Chocolate Cranberry Filled Shortbread Cookies
Thank you Jennifer, that is a really nice thing to say.
I love giving(and receiving) food gifts in a jar! Your bars look WONDERFUL! I really like your parchment package and am going to “steal” that idea this year:)o It looks SO cute! Thanks!
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take it! Have fun with it.
Oh my goodness, Bree, these look amazing!!! No matter that the idea came from someone else–they look beautiful here, and I’m pretty sure this is going to be my gift to cousins, in laws, etc! Thanks so much for sharing, and for the printables, too!
Barefoot Belle recently posted..If at first you dont succeed- make tried and true Chicken Pot Pie
My pleasure. Your family will love them. Mine did!
Those sound wonderful, and what a great gift!
Julie recently posted..Fall On A Plate
Thank you Julie!
wow those look great! I just wanted to let you know how much i absolutely love your blog. the photos are so beautiful and all of your food that you prepare looks delicious and so well-balanced. everything is so clean cut looking and awesome. i always look forward to your updates.
You are too sweet Christina! Thank you, you just made my night.
These look delicious, and I love the packaging – so cute!
Thank you Tracy!
Just lovely, Bree! I was planning on making some type of goodie at Christmas for all my neighbors, but I LOVE this idea much more. And it saves me from having to put off cleaning my kitchen for days afterwards. Thank YOU for making my life easier; you are Super Woman!
And since I have all the ingredients in my pantry now, I’m going to bake these tonight just because.
Super Woman? I don’t think so, but thank you for thinking it!!
I love this idea! Thanks for the recipe card too. I always want to make something for teachers at Christmas and this will be perfect!
My pleasure.
I’ve been on a blondie kick myself. These look delicious!
What a great gift idea… and your presentation is beautiful- the pictures and the recipe cards!
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thank you Caitlin!
Hello. Love this. Can you tell me what size jar you used?
Love your blog!
nicki recently posted..297/365
It is a quart.
I was just looking at that same magazine this week at Sam’s Club and saw the packaging idea you did. I love it! What a fantastic gift idea. Anyone would love to receive this jar of toffee blondie ingredients. I look forward to your post every week to see what you’ve made and all your creative ideas (which I’m stealing from you)…..: )
Jamie recently posted..Chicken and Rice with The Kids Cook Monday
This is my first time visiting your website, and I’m already in LOVE with your post. I know what I’m giving people this year for a Christmas present…
Welcome! I am so glad that you like what you see.
one of my favorite kitchen gadgets is a canning funnel….a wide-mouthed funnel made just for pouring scrumptiousness into canning jars! so no more carefully pouring from a 1/4 cup. how great is that?! thanks for the recipe! blondie lover
I just got one! I was thinking about using it when I was making these and ordered one the same day! Thanks for the tip.
I’m just baking up the lovely jar of blondies you gave me right now. They smell so good. I think they will be perfect for Andrew’s preschool party tonight.
Yeah! Glad that you liked them.
i love the look of this, and had to look up heath chips. We don’t have hersheys things here in Australia. What do you think I could substitute for these toffee chips? Life’s tough down here, I don’t know how i’ve lived this long without heath chips!
lore
x
Heath chips are are toffee chips. Just our brand.
Love this! Just wanted to let you know that I’m including it in my post “Top 10 Gifts in Jars” today at http://www.cheapcraftymama.com. Feel free to stop by and grab a button or link for your page to show that you are featured! Thanks!
thanks Kate!
Just found your site! What a great job you do!
Welcome Debra and thank you!
Bree,
Great job, these look amazing. This is actually a life saver, I had no idea what I was going to make for all the women in my family as well as my boyfriends family and now I know =) so thank you for that. Just one question, what size (oz) are the mason jars you used for this recipe?
They are 1 quart jars. I am glad that you found something to give.
Hey Bree!! This blondie idea is like the gift that keeps on giving…here it is a year later and it’s still and awesome idea as ever and comments are non-stop
I’m thinking this is what my co-workers are going to get this year…so thanks sooo much for this post!
It is Pam!
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