the deeper living

There is a chill in the air and the leaves have become more golden in hue. Autumn is here and what better way to bring in the new season than with these chewy pumpkin blondies. If you are like me and love the flavor that unaltered pumpkin brings, these blondies are for you! These blondies start off by making a homemade pumpkin butter, which is a lot easier to make than it sounds. The homemade pumpkin butter removes the excess moisture and adds depth of flavor to the blondies. The pumpkin butter is lightly spiced, adding a subtle hint of autumn spices without overpowering the pumpkin flavor.

These brown sugar peach skyr crumble bars are the perfect summer dessert to make! They are so simple to whip together and have the most tender thick brown sugar cake like base. They get topped with a generous slather of caramel sauce and get topped with fresh peaches and a buttery brown sugar crumble.

These chewy thick blondies are filled with rich deep brown butter notes, buttery green pistachio bits and a dreamy ribbon of pistachio crème. These blondies use pistachio oil to amplify the earthy notes of the pistachio and use brown butter to highlight the nuttiness and warmth of the pistachio flavor. These pistachio blondies are just loaded up with pure pistachio. The texture on these blondies is truly sublime. Best of all these are so simple to whip up. The hardest part is honestly just shelling those pistachios!

Yes, there are a million red velvet brownie/blondie recipes floating around there on the internet but unlike most red velvet blondie/brownie recipes, these blondies let that red velvet flavor shine through. No cloying sweet white chocolate, no dark/milk chocolate chunks to interfere with that lovely subtle red velvet flavor and no cream cheese stuffing or frosting, because quite honestly these blondies don’t need it. Just pure red velvet. These blondies are super easy to whip up and are insanely chewy and delicious. Make yourself a tray and don’t worry about sharing them because you will eat them all on your own.

These little matcha blondies are filled with grassy, earthy sweet matcha notes. They are so simple to make and have such a huge flavor payout! They are perfectly chewy and so easy to whip up. Make sure you invest in some high quality matcha for that clean, delicious matcha flavor! Totally, optional but you can add a drop of green food coloring to amp up that green color!

These chewy blondies are ladened with nutty brown butter notes, toasty sugary hints of rum, hints of floral bay leaf and imbued with both green and black cardamom pods. If you are not familiar with black cardamom, it is the larger, more savory relative of the green cardamom. Black cardamom lends a subtle smoky, camphor like tone to these blondies while the green cardamom adds warm citrusy, peppery flavors. The marriage of these ingredients leaves you with a flavor packed dessert that is unlike any blondie you’ve ever had! Perfectly chewy and so easy to whip up!