These are brown butter blondies in the best way… with added toffee bits and pecan pieces. Everything about them is perfect. They are moist and tender with a slight crunch from those added goodies. The recipe I’m sharing with you today comes directly from the Volunteer Park Cafe in the North Capital Hill neighborhood of Seattle. It’s a happenin’ place serving coffee, pastries, soups, sandwiches, and dinner too. VPC is committed to using locally sourced food. Pastry Chef Heather Earnhardt contributed her recipe for Brown Butter Bars to the recently published Food Lover’s Guide to Seattle. I’ve renamed them Brown Butter Toffee Pecan Blondies.
Are you as in love with Seattle as I am? I’ve been there several times, but I feel like I need another 42 1/2 days to explore and really get the lay of the land. Though it might be a fact that it rains a fair amount in Seattle, they do get 48 sunny days on average per year, it’s truly beautiful country and a fun city… and the FOOD opportunities are endless. If you have plans to go to Seattle, you’ll want The Food Lover’s Guide to Seattle to keep handy. It was written by Keren Brown, who is an expert in putting together events that educate and connect Seattle’s food world.
Inside The Food Lover’s Guide to Seattle, you’ll find favorite restaurants and landmark eateries, specialty food stores and markets, farmers’ markets, food festivals and culinary events, recipes from top Seattle chefs, the city’s best cafes, taverns, and wine bars, cooking classes, and complete coverage of the infamous Pike Place Market. It’s definitely a useful guide (easily fits in your purse/ camera bag/ backpack/ man purse) if you live in or near Seattle or if you ever intend to visit. Here are a few more bar recipes you may wish to make: Seven Layer Bars (have been a favorite for years), No Bake Monster Cookie Bars (with lots of M&M’s!) and Salted Caramel Butter Bars (drool).
