Peanut Butter Blondies

Weather: 46 degrees, heavy rain
What I’m listening to: Flow Like Wine, Gabe Dixon

If I had to make a list of things I’d take to survive on a deserted island, I’d likely include a supply of peanut butter. Peanut butter is something I could eat every day and be pretty darn happy. Peanut butter for breakfast? Absolutely. I love peanut butter granola, peanut butter toast, peanut butter smoothies, or peanut butter smeared on pancakes. Peanut butter for lunch? Yes, yes, yes. A tried and true PB & J or peanut butter and banana sandwich will do just fine. Peanut butter for dinner? You know it. I’m all about a pile of ginger peanut noodles. The restaurant where I work has peanut butter as a topping option for our burgers. I have yet to try it myself, but I’ve heard people rave about it.

For years I have searched for the ideal peanut butter blondie recipe. A great many of them were too cakey. Others weren’t peanut-buttery enough. I was looking for something rich and gooey, almost like my peanut butter cookie recipe in bar form.  After many failed attempts, I had given up trying, thinking that the peanut butter blondies I was envisioning in my head were impossible to achieve. I passed over many peanut butter bar recipes without even giving them a second look because I was expecting to be disappointed by the results. Then, I came across a recipe on Pinterest and was lured in by the texture of the bars in the photograph. Could these be the ones? A couple of slight adaptations and indeed they are.

I debated long and hard about the combination of morsels in this recipe. Feel free to go with all peanut butter morsels or substitute semisweet chocolate morsels for the white chocolate ones. I hardly think you can go wrong.