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Apple Cinnamon Blondies

★★★★★ from 4 reviews

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These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.

These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.I’m finally 21.

Which means, among other things, that it’s fall! (Oh, and also that now I can start posting boozy dessert recipes! And drink.)

My birthday, September 16th, always falls within the first few weeks of the school year, and is always my marker of when everything starts feeling a whole lot more like fall. Classes start to get into full swing. The air gets a crisp, chilly edge to it between the sunny days, and the leaves just start to change color around the edges.

These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.

And then, of course, fall baking starts, and the smells of pumpkin bread, cinnamon, and apple-y desserts dominate the kitchen. It’s a great time, especially for baking.

I love apple desserts, and would say that on most days, I’ll tell people that’s my favorite kind of dessert. Apple crisps, crumbles, pies…I looove it. Especially with cinnamon! The two flavors are a match made in heaven. However, because it’s my favorite, I try to make it less, because I’ll totally devour it embarrassingly quickly.

Most of my baking, I have pretty good self-control. Anything to do with apples? Powerless. Enter: Apple Cinnamon Blondies.

These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.

I paired my favorite blondie recipe with my favorite fall flavors, and the result was fantastic. The idea started when I found these cinnamon chips. I had never used them before, but had always been intrigued…so I grabbed ’em and decided they were gonna be made into something delicious with apples.

The blondies are the perfect vessel for the chunks of apple, which are sautéed in a tiny bit of butter and brown sugar. They stay just firm enough, and the blondies stay gooey and soft on the insides. The edges are chewy and caramelized, and the cinnamon chips leave swirls of cinnamon goodness veining through the blondies.

These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.

They are the epitome of fall.

(And they make your house smell awesome!)

If you’re like me and love apples, you’ll be in heaven. Enjoy!

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These Apple Cinnamon Blondies have sautéed apples and cinnamon chips for the ultimate portable fall treat! This easy recipe comes together quickly and tastes like apple pie.

Apple Cinnamon Blondies

★★★★★

5 from 4 reviews
  • Author: Rachel Conners
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 30 minutes
  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 16 bars 1x
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Ingredients

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  • 1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon unsalted butter (divided)
  • 1 cup + 2 tablespoons light brown sugar (divided)
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 medium apple (diced into 1/4” chunks (peeled if desired, I didn’t))
  • 1/2 cup cinnamon chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 8-by-8-inch pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper and spray with cooking spray; set aside.
  2. In a small skillet, melt 1 tablespoon of butter. Add 2 tablespoons brown sugar and cut apples. Stir to combine. Let simmer together on low heat for about 5 minutes, until apples are slightly softened. Set aside to cool while you prepare blondie batter.
  3. Melt 1/2 cup butter in the microwave. Combine remaining brown sugar and melted butter in a large bowl and whisk to combine. Add the egg, vanilla, and whisk to combine. Add the flour, salt, and stir until just combined, taking care not to over-mix. Fold in the cinnamon chips and apples. Pour batter into prepared pan, smoothing it lightly with a spatula or offset knife.
  4. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the bars are set and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. The edges will be slightly pulling away from sides of pan.
  5. Allow the blondies to cool for at least 2 hours before slicing and serving into 16 squares. I like to refrigerate them before cutting to make them easier to cut.
  6. They can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature or in the refrigerator for up to 1 week, or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
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  4. Melissa Belanger says

    Happy Birthday!! I hope you had a great time going out and getting carded :) I can’t wait to see those boozy dessert recipes. These blondies look amazing and I’m totally making them ASAP. I’ve actually never had a blondie before, but these have completely sold me.

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  10. Ashley | The Recipe Rebel says

    Girl, you lured me right over from Facebook. Happy Birthday! Mine is next week! I have always loved September, but I’m a teacher so it also means back to work :( I might just have to make a pan (or 3) of these to console myself with. And pin them about 1000 times.

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  26. Jane says

    Just made a pan of these blondies……yummy! I used apples from my own apple tree and added some walnuts. My knit night friends gobbled them up. They reeeaally made the house smell wonderful.

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    • Rachel Conners says

      Hi Jessie. Cinnamon chips can be difficult to find! I usually locate them at Target, but if you can’t find them, you can definitely leave them out. I would add about 1-2 teaspoons of cinnamon to the recipe to replace the flavor, depending on how strongly you want to taste the cinnamon. Enjoy!

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  28. Chris @ Shared Appetite says

    I know I’m a wee bit late on this, but Happy Birthday! 21! Woot! How exciting… and these blondies, uhm, I shouldn’t have looked at them right before lunch time. Now my lame rice cakes and PB+J are totally not going to quench my appetite… I need these blondies!

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    • Rachel says

      Hi Lauren, I believe that I picked these up at Target! They can be a little tricky to find but they tend to be more common at big box stores (Walmart, Target, etc.). Hope you find them!! :)

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  33. Susan says

    These bars sound amazingly delish! But here in Canada, it will be even harder to find cinnamon chips. Do you think I could substitute chopped up candy melts in one of the special flavours like gingerbread or pumpkin spice?

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    • Rachel says

      Hi Susan! That would likely be a great substitution. I’ve never tried using candy melts in a baked good like that, but I presume it should be fine – the chunks just made be a little harder since candy melts harden more than the chips would when cool. Enjoy!! :)

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  34. sniffnbake says

    If you love apple recipes, you should meet the baked apple’s other best friend – Ski Queen. It’s a superb Norwegian gjetost cheese that’s like a combination of peanut butter, salty caramel and cheddar. Sold in little blocks with red packaging. Although it’s a combo goat/cow cheese, you don’t notice anything goaty. I first tasted it cut into thin slices and melted onto an apple pie, and later in Norway in huge blocks, from which you peeled thin slices to put on your pumpernickel bread at the breakfast buffet. This stuff is seriously addictive. You should be able to find it in delicatessens, especially those with a ‘northern’ bent. I’m going to try some little chunks blended into your recipe. BTW, by ‘cinnamon chips’, do you mean the melts made by the big confectioner, or do you mean actual chips of cinnamon? (I’m going to have to improvise, regardless).

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    • Rachel says

      Hi there! Sounds delicious – I’ll definitely have to look into Ski Queen. I used Hershey’s brand Cinnamon Chips. I found them at Target. Hope this helps. Enjoy :)

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  35. Heather says

    Hi! I am really exited to try this recipe! I saw that you recommend we use 1-2 teaspoon cinnamon if we can’t find cinnamon chips (which unfortunatly I can’t). Where in the recipe do you think I should add it? (to the apples or the blondie part).

    2nd Question! I’m thinking of adding White Chocolate Chips to give it a little bit of an extra something, since I don’t have the cinnamon chips – do you think that would work well here?

    Thank you!

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  36. Krista says

    These are very moist and crumbly. Delicious! Everyone that tried them loved them. I made them without the cinnamon chips but sprinkled cinnamon on top – I didn’t have the cinnamon chips. Great recipe! Thanks for sharing this one.

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  38. Lindsay Seeley says

    I’ve made this recipe 5 times now, each with different morsels since cinnamon chips are apparently outlawed where I live. Caramel bits apple blondies? Delicious. Milk chocolate chip apple blondies? Delicious. White chocolate chip apple blondies? Delicious. Pumpkin spice butterscotch apple blondies? Surprise! Fricken delicious. I have a batch in the oven now that I’m taking to work tomorrow for a holiday baked goods contest. Thank you, you marvelous woman, for sharing this recipe with everyone on the interweb. I had to buy bigger pants because of you and I have no regrets.

    ★★★★★

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