Cream Cheese Blondies taste like a cross between carrot cake + blondies. They’re SO delicious and always a hit at parties!
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Made these for my family and they all loved them!! Making them for a second time tonight
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Ingredients needed
- All Purpose Flour
- Cream Cheese – You can use full fat or reduced fat cream cheese.
- Baking Powder
- Brown Sugar & Confectioners’ Sugar
- Eggs
- Butter
- Vanilla Extract
- Cinnamon, Nutmeg & Salt
- Sesame Seeds – For topping. Optional, but so pretty and delicious!
How to make blondies with cream cheese frosting
- Combine ingredients: Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a medium bowl. In a second medium bowl, whisk the softened butter and brown sugar together until combined. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Using a rubber spatula, fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture until just combined.
- Bake: Add the batter to a greased 9×13″ pan and bake for 25 minutes.
- Cool: Place the pan on a rack and let cool completely (about an hour).
- Make the frosting: Beat softened butter and cream cheese until well blended. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Beat until creamy.
- Frost + enjoy: Frost blondies and cut into 1 ½ by 2-inch bars. If desired, sprinkle with sesame seeds. Enjoy!
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Full Recipe
Cream Cheese Blondies
Ingredients
Blondies
- 1½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ cups packed light brown sugar
- 12 Tablespoons unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- 2 large eggs
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Frosting
- 4 Tablespoons unsalted butter (at room temperature)
- 6 ounces cream cheese
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- Pinch of salt
- Sesame seeds (for sprinkling, optional)
Instructions
Blondies:
- Adjust oven rack to the middle position and preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray a 13- by 9-inch baking pan with cooking spray or grease with butter.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together. Set aside.
- In a second medium bowl, whisk the softened butter and brown sugar together until combined. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well. Using a rubber spatula, fold the dry ingredients into the egg mixture until just combined.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the top with a rubber spatula.
- Bake until the top is shiny and cracked and feels firm to the touch, for 22 to 25 minutes.
- Place the pan on a rack and let cool completely (about an hour).
Frosting:
- Beat softened butter and cream cheese until well blended.
- Add powdered sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Beat until creamy.
- Frost blondies and sprinkle with sesame seeds, if desired. Cut into 1 ½ by 2-inch bars. Enjoy!
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This post was originally published in 2017. It was updated in 2024 to add new photographs. The cinnamon blondies with cream cheese frosting recipe remains the same. Enjoy!
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