One of my friends is a first-year kindergarten teacher. She wanted to bring in a treat for the kids, to celebrate the end of their school year.
So she looked through my list of Chocolate Covered Katie 500+ Healthy Dessert Recipes.
After much deliberation, she finally decided on blondies. We spent the afternoon in the kitchen, making blondies for her lucky students.
We used the recipe for my White Bean Blondies, then we threw in 2 tablespoons of sprinkles (pre-baking). We also subbed a combination of applesauce and oil for the peanut butter, because snacks at my friend’s school must be peanut-free. Here’s the modified recipe:
Funfetti Blondies
(makes 15-20 squares)
- 1 1/2 cups chickpeas or white beans (1 can, drained and rinsed) (250g after draining)
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- level 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar or coconut sugar or xylitol
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup ground flax or quick oats (20g)
- 1/4 cup peanut butter (or Earth Balance or veg or coconut oil)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 2-4 tbsp sprinkles, plus more for the tops if desired
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Blend all ingredients (except chips) until very smooth in a food processor (not a blender). Mix in chips, and scoop into a greased (or tinfoil-lined) 8×8 pan. Optional: for “prettiness” you can stick some chocolate chips on top of the batter as well. Bake for around 30 minutes. They’ll look a little undercooked when you take them out, but they firm up as they cool, and you don’t want them to get too hard.
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What are your favorite vacation spots?
I want to plan a vacation for this summer, and have no idea where to go. I’m leaning towards NYC, since it’s one of my favorite places in the world and I usually go there every summer. But maybe I should try something different. California, Portland, Boston… all are in the running!
I love sprinkles! I completely agree that they make everything taste better! after all, taste, in my opinion, also consists of other aesthetic characteristics, especially looks (and smell)
If something doesn’t look pretty, i REALLY don’t want to eat it.
Oh — and I made your cookie dough dip for dinner yesterday and I ate the entire bowl by myself (granted i halved the recipe but oh well haha) and it was really yummy! for me, it was a bit liquidy so i added some oats to thicken it up a bit. I used cinnamon raisin swirl peanut butter and left out the sugar. it was delicious, and SUPER fillin! garbanzo beans are SO healthy. Thanks, katie! you rocked my tummy once again!
xxxx alexandra
You have awesome tastebuds, eating the dip for dinner! I can only imagine how awesome cookie dough for dinner was! 😉
Washington DC is awesome…free museums, zoo, embassies, parks etc. Metro is fast, easy, clean and safe Lots of history/culture and great for walking though it’s hot and humid in the summer.
NYC is a riot. I love it there for all the things you get to take in in a short amount of time – the food, the people, the shopping, the scenery, the feeling of being in a completely different world in that concrete jungle! Central Park is also extremely beautiful!
And on the complete opposite of the vacation spectrum, one of my favourite places is Tenessee. The mountain cabins are so cute & Nashville is awesome!
Boston! boston! theres so much to do and tons of history. i’m biased because i grew up outside of boston, but still its great. plus you could enjoy cali anytime of the year but new england is mostly only enjoyable in the warmer months
Ahhh, sprinkles. Gotta love those little things. 🙂
Have a great weekend, Katie!
What about somewhere like Mexico or Cuba? I’d love to go to either but I’m planning to go either to New York or Egypt next year 🙂
And thanks for the tips yesterday; if anyone’s qualified to write a post like that, it’s got to be you!
My favorite is Honolulu, Hawaii. However, I think Seattle is a beautiful place to visit during the summer. It’s definitely a fun place to explore on foot and full of delectable goodies. I love the vibe they have going on there and its just a great outdoorsy city in general.
Erm of course there’s enough interest…..it takes half an hour to scroll past all the comments so I can write one of my own! 🙂 Come to ENGLAND!!! And you can meet up with Me, Carrie and Emma 🙂
And btw…those children are in for a major treat! 🙂
I personally love Seattle.
Those blondies are so fun! I made the chocolate chip blondies for my family last week, and they were a hit! I’ll definitely add the sprinkles next time 🙂
oh and I meant to add to my commet above that I made your choc. chip blondies yesterday but subbed bananas and dates for the sugar. They came out SOOO delicious and my roommates and myself devoured the entire pan in less than 10 minutes no joke. I blogged about it and linked back which you probably get notified about? just thought I’d let you know and say thanks for another great recipe!
Hey! I was just hoping you could tell me how much banana and dates you used?! I don’t want to use the sugar, and your substitution sounds perfect!
Funfetti colors are always so fun! especially for the little kiddies, but even today who can resist a sweet treat that look like a rainbow? 🙂 and psshhh, what do those foodgawker folks know anyways!
now as for your vaca, i grew up in CA and have to say that San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Fran are some of my favorite spots. that said, i live in Portland, OR now and here is a fun fact that you might like: portland has the most restaurants per capita than any other place in the US. oh, and Rosie’s bakery has plenty of chocolaty wonders…hehe.
I might have to visit you! 🙂
as much as i would love a running/chocolate date with you i feel it only fair to warn you that in terms of looking for the perfect summer getaway, portland, OR probably isn’t the ideal. we’ve been having even crazier rainy weather than usual and the sun has barely even poked out. but like i said, we’ve got the grub! 🙂
those are so pretty!funfetti ALWAYS wins with kids…heck funfetti always wins with everyone!
San Diego is an amazing city!!!! I highly recommend going there!
I would say Philadelphia so you can visit me, but I know you’ve spent plenty of time there 🙂 Have you ever been to Arizona? I love Tucson! I went to Flagstaff when I was little and I enjoyed that too. I’m going to the grand canyon in two weeks, I’m sure that’s a cool place to go! I recently went to California and it is great for vegans, plus there are so many options of things to do and places to see there.
I’ve never been! But I want to!
San Diego!!!!