Peppermint White Chocolate Blondies
Peppermint White Chocolate Blondies are an easy blondies recipe made with sunflower butter and white chocolate. Then topped with Peppermint Frosting!
Servings 12 Blondies
Ingredients
White Chocolate Blondies
- 2 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Kosher Salt
- ½ tsp Ground Nutmeg
- 12 Tbsp Unsalted Butter melted
- ½ Cup SunButter Natural Sunflower Butter
- 5 ounces White Chocolate melted, high quality baking chips
- 1 ½ Cups Granulated Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 Large Eggs
Peppermint Frosting
- 16 Tbsp Unsalted Butter softened to room temperature
- 4 Cups (440 grams) Powdered Sugar
- 3 Tbsp Heavy Cream
- ½ tsp Peppermint Extract
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 4 Large Candy Canes smashed into tiny pieces
Instructions
White Chocolate Blondies
- Preheat oven to 350 F (180 C) and line a 9x9 inch square baking pan with parchment paper. Allow parchment paper to droop over the sides.
- In a large bowl hand whisk together sifted flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg. Set aside.
- Combine melted butter, sugar and sunflower butter in a medium bowl Stirring with whisk until smooth.
- Melt white chocolate in a double broiler or in 30 second microwave intervals stirring in between until mostly melted.
- Add melted white chocolate to the sunflower butter sugar bowl. Fold in with a spatula.
- Add vanilla and eggs to sugar white chocolate mixture. Stir with whisk until combined.
- Spoon wet mixture into flour mixture half at a time. Use a spatula to fold and figure eight until all ingredients combined.
- Transfer blondie batter to prepared pan and level with rubber spatula.
- Bake on middle rack for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
- Place tray on cooling rack and allow blondies to completely cool.
- Once cooled, grab sides of parchment paper and lift the large square blondie from pan.
- Place blondies on cutting surface. Cut in half to create two rectangles.
- Measure and cut each rectangle into triangles of desired size. See pics for inspo.
- Pipe frosting onto triangles from the top going side to side until you reach the bottom, resembling a tree.
Peppermint Frosting
- Place softened butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with paddle attachment. Beat on medium until smooth and creamy.
- Add two cups powdered sugar and the cream. Mix until smooth, scrape bottom and sides of bowl as needed.
- Add vanilla, peppermint and remaining two cups of powdered sugar. Mix again.
- Add in peppermint pieces (should be small like sugar crystals ,a few bigger pieces are ok). Mix until incorporated.
- Frosting should be firm but still soft enough to pipe. If you want it thinner, add a Tbsp of cream and mix again. If you want it thicker, add a ½ cup of powdered sugar and mix again.
- Transfer frosting to a large piping bag fitted with Wilton 4B piping tip. Pipe frosting onto blondie triangles.