Pecan & White Chocolate Blonde Brownies

Pecan & White Chocolate ~ Blonde Brownies

Who doesn't love a good brownie?  My hubby!!  he prefers blondes! LOL  well, he doesn't like chocolate all that much but, white chocolate (which really isn't even chocolate but, that's a whole other story) is doable. I am sharing a family recipe that my Mom made quite often. An extra treat is to toss toasted coconut on top too...I just didn't have any on hand and needed to make some of these for a BBQ party we were invited to... Hope you like these as much as we all do! ~Enjoy! Diane 


Pecan & White Chocolate Blonde Brownies


Ingredients: 

1. 1 cup butter
   
2. 1 (11 oz bag) Ghirardelli white chocolate chips, divided
3. 1/2 cup whole Pecans
4. 1 cup chopped pecans
5. 4 eggs
6. 1 3/4 cups white sugar
   
7. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
   
8. 2 cups all-purpose flour
   
9. 1 teaspoon salt

Directions: 

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan.
• Melt the butter and 1/3 of the bag of white chocolate chips together over low heat in a saucepan. Remove from heat, and let cool slightly. Meanwhile beat eggs with sugar and vanilla extract in a mixing bowl; mix in the cooled butter/chip mixture, and slowly stir in the flour and salt until well combined.
• Add 1 cup of chopped pecans into batter and 1/3 of the chocolate chips.
• Spoon batter into the prepared baking pan; sprinkle with remaining 1/3 of white chocolate chips and the whole pecans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of the brownies comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes.
• Allow to cool in pan for about 20 minutes before cutting into bars.