These are the ultimate chewy Paleo chocolate chip blondies, loads with almond butter and and drizzled with more melted chocolate, you won’t believe they’re grain free, dairy free, and actually good for you! Kid friendly and easy to make.
Saturdays we have dessert! Are you guys with me on this? Aside from the month of January, when I posted all Whole30 recipes, all the time, Saturdays have been all about dessert – on the blog – for months now.
I like it this way – even though I’m sorta on team dessert-every-day, Saturday always feels like a good day to really indulge in full on, gooey, chewy, real-deal cookies, brownies, cakes, fudge, etc. Plus, typically we all have a few more minutes on a Saturday to bake than, say, a Tuesday. I strongly dislike Tuesdays, by the way. It always seems to rain on Tuesday and I always have way too much to do.
Anyway, to go with the Saturday dessert theme, I’m bringing you extra-chocolatey-chunky-chewy blondies. I made these twice and the second time was most certainly the charm. For some reason I thought that adding an extra egg yolk was a good idea the first time around, but it was not.
I realized that I only like that extra egg yolk in there when I’m using all coconut oil, not when almond butter is involved. With almond butter, it just makes the bars too cakey. If there’s something besides Tuesdays that I strongly dislike, it’s cakey blondies. Or cookies. Not my thing at all!
So, for try #2 (the next day) I got rid of the yolk, added more almond butter, more coconut sugar (just had to) a bit more coconut oil and a TBSP of coconut flour. So I sort of changed the entire thing, but, WHOA! It worked out perfectly.
I got my chewy, dense, rich, chocolatey blondies, and, luckily didn’t have to make a third batch. Let me tell you – I start going completely out of my mind once I’m on the third batch of something. I question the meaning of my existence and just plain freak out like something horrible has actually happened. Fun times! Somebody needs to start a food blogger emergency support hotline, I’m not kidding – see my rant on recipe heartbreak. I would totally call the hotline at least once per month.
But enough about my recipe fail woes, ultimately I know that the struggle results in a thing or two learned about Paleo baking, so that you guys don’t have to cry on your kitchen floor in front of cakey or dry blondies. So many other things to cry about (seriously!) and DESSERT, if anything, is supposed to make us feel better. It’s totally okay to let your dessert make you feel better, by the way, that’s sort of the point. So here we go – easy, chewy, Paleo chocolate chip blondies are here – let’s bake!
Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Blondies
Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Blondies
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup organic coconut oil softened but not melted
- 2/3 cup smooth almond butter unsweetened
- 2/3 cup organic coconut sugar
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup blanched almond flour
- 1 tbsp coconut flour
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp fine grain sea salt
- 1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate or chocolate chunks/chips
- Extra 3 Tbsp chocolate chunks + tsp coconut oil to melt and drizzle over the top optional
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line an 8x8" baking pan with parchment paper.
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In a large bowl, using an electric hand mixer (recommended) or whisk, cream together the egg, almond butter, coconut sugar, vanilla and coconut oil until well combined. In a separate bowl, combine the almond flour, coconut flour, baking soda and salt.
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Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet on low speed or by hand until smooth and well combined. Stir in the chopped chocolate/chocolate chips and spread evenly in the prepared baking pan, scraping the bowl with a spatula to get every drop.
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Bake 15-20 in the preheated oven until lightly browned and center sets. Allow to cool, then melt your extra chocolate with the tsp coconut oil in a glass dish in the microwave for 20 seconds, then stirring to melt completely. Drizzle with melted chocolate and allow the blondies to completely cool. Cut into 16 squares to serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
What I Used to Make My Chewy Paleo Chocolate Chip Blondies:
Want more crazy good Paleo bars and cookies? Try one of these!
Triple Chocolate Sweet Potato Brownies
Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookies
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Oh SNAP!! These are happening TODAY!!!
ohhh these look so super good! I’m laughing out loud about the food blogger help line! I think it’s a great idea.
I hate wasting food so much that most of the time I turn failures into something that at least I can stomach (if no one else in my family wants to share) haha Maybe that’s why I am not that adventurous… I try new recipes all the time but they often involve ingredients that I’ve already cooked with and maybe one or two new that I am testing… that’s the level of food stress that I can handle 😉
These look so good!! I ma baking them tomorrow and using Lily’s stevia baking chocolate.
Hope you like them!
I made these tonight and oh man! They’re delicious! They taste like “real” blondies. Next time I’ll reduce the sugar a bit, but we’re just not used to sugar so they were a bit sweet. I also skipped the drizzle on top because I didn’t want to wait for them to cool, but next time I’ll be patient and add it. They’re still super good without it!
Hi Nancy, so glad you liked these! I agree the drizzle is extra but you can totally do without, either way 🙂
I’m an every day dessert kind of gal too, and I appreciate you going through the recipe struggles so we don’t have to. These look amazing.
After tasting the 1st batch I made a second batch. These are amazing and this is coming from a super picky eater.
Awesome! Couldn’t be happier to hear that 🙂
I made this tonight for after dinner dessert & brownies came delicious. I found the recipe on Instagram (love your recipes). As I was using the mixer noticed the dough had the consistency of crumbles so when I put it in the baking dish I just pressed it. Brownies came really good but I was just wondering … My kid approved them & he just devoured his piece ?
These were so moist and delicious!!! Tasted even better than the “real” thing. Thank you!
That’s awesome!
I came across this recipe on Pinterest, it looks great! Question – how do you get coconut oil to soften without melting it? Also what is your favorite dairy free chocolate chip brand? Thanks!
These are delicious! I was worried because my coconut oil separated before adding the flour mixture. I mixed & went ahead and pressed dough into the pan. They baked up perfectly and looked exactly like your pic. Everyone of your recipes work and are amazing. Living Paleo 3+ years – you’ve brought baked goods back into our lives. Thank you!
Not to be annoying with questions about substitutions, but… do you think cashew butter would work in lieu of the almond butter?
Yes definitely will, any nut butter will work well 🙂
My family loves these bars! So easy to make I even substituted 1/3 cup maples syrup in place of the coconut sugar…..awesome!
These were great just not quite sweet enough, maybe since I added unsweetened dark chocolate chunks. So I sprinkled very, very lightly stevia powder on top. No one knew 🙂 Next time I think I might add 1/4 c. agave for extra sweetener.
Easy recipe. Thanks for all your hard work. Making these for my kids to bring to a costume/dance tonight. Might have to make another pan to try myself.
My new favorite blonde brownie. It’s just the right amount of gooey and cake like! I confess, I ate three last night!
I did make one change, I reduced the sugar to 1/2 cup as I’m sensitive to it.
Delicious! Chewy and incredible!
Made these with a friend over skype and it turned out great! Tastes amazing, good texture, has all the looks. 😀 Will make this again! Thanks!
These were excellent paleo blondies and my whole family approved. I can’t wait to try your new “peanut-butter stuffed” version!
How do you store them to keep them fresh? Just made today and they’re so amazing!!! Thx!!!
Can I substitute the egg for flax egg?
I’m not sure what I did wrong. My coconut oil separated. The dough consistency was hard. Like cookie dough. Is it supposed to be like that? After baking it in the oven for 20 minutes it looked like it baked off. But the blondies came out greasy and like under baked. 🙁
Is it okay to omit the coconut flour, or replace it with either almond or cassava flour? Looking forward to trying!
These are amazing! Thank you so much for this!
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My family i loves this recipe!
Can you double the recipe for a 9 X 13 pan and how much longer would you bake them?