These easy Butterscotch Blondies are chewy, soft, and made with butterscotch chips. Enjoy them plain, or served with a scoop of ice cream and an easy homemade butterscotch sauce.
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Why I love this recipe:
- Perfect Texture – Soft, thick, and chewy with the butterscotch sweetness everyone loves.
- Next Level – They taste great as they are, or you can add a scoop of vanilla ice cream with an easy homemade butterscotch sauce. SOO GOOD!
- Crowd Pleaser – Cookies are always great, but I find myself making brownies and bars more! They are faster, only bake once, and are easily sliced to serve a crowd! And these bars are unique and will be the highlight of any party.
How to make Butterscotch Bars:
Cream Butter and Sugar: Add the butter, sugar and brown sugar to a mixing bowl and cream together until very smooth. Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
Finish Dough: Add flour and baking powder and stir until combined. Fold in butterscotch chips (keep a small handful to sprinkle on top).
Bake: Spread into a greased square (8 or 9 inch) baking pan and bake at 350°F for about 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Cut Butterscotch Bars: Allow to cool for before cutting these butterscotch brownies into bars.
How to make Butterscotch Sauce:
Make Sauce: Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the sugar and cream and stir well with a wooden spoon until blended. Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and boil for about 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. The sauce will thicken as it cools.
Serve butterscotch bars warm with ice cream and a drizzle of easy butterscotch sauce.
Storage and Freezing Instructions:
To Store: Keep butterscotch blondies in an airtight container at room temperature. I think they taste best the day they are made, otherwise freeze them, for best results. Refrigerate homemade butterscotch syrup in an air-tight container.
To Freeze: Cover pan with a double layer of aluminum foil, or store cut bars in an air-tight freezer-safe container. Freeze bars for up to 3 months.
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Recipe
Butterscotch Bars
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted butter , softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ cup butterscotch chips
- Optional: Serve with Ice Cream and Butterscotch Sauce
Butterscotch Sauce:
- ½ cup salted butter , at room temperature
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Add the butter, sugar and brown sugar to a mixing bowl and cream together until very smooth.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix well.
- Add flour and baking powder and stir until combined.
- Fold in butterscotch chips (keep a small handful to sprinkle on top).
- Spread into a greased square (8 or 9 inch) baking pan and bake for about 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow to cool before cutting into bars.
For the Butterscotch Sauce:
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add the sugar and cream and stir well with a wooden spoon until blended.
- Bring mixture to a boil, reduce heat and boil for about 5 minutes, stirring often.
- Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. The sauce will thicken as it cools.
- Serve warm over ice cream.
- To store, refrigerate sauce in an air-tight container.
Notes
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I originally shared this recipe May 2016. Updated June 2023.
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New family favorite! We can switch out butterscotch chips for chocolate, add nuts, etc.
I also only had dark brown sugar and they turned out just fine. Thank you for this recipe – it’s really delicious! : )
Excellent and super easy! I added pecan chips.
Delicious
Made these as a treat for my husbands lab after I grabbed butterscotch morsels by mistake. Had to add salt as my butter was unsalted and added little less than 1/4 cup of milk just to help smooth it out a bit since my brown sugar wouldn’t break down.
They absolutely loved it! Will be making again!
This is sooo good! My kids and I love it! It’s easy to make and tastes so yummy! It’s literally gone in minutes! Thank you!
THIS RECIPE IS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!1
i want to make these now but only have dark brown sugar. Have you ever made them with dark before?
No, but should work just fine 🙂
Did you use a glass pan?
Glass or metal will work. Enjoy!
Thanks for the recipe! The ingredients for the sauce do not list salt. How much salt should be included?
If the sauce ingredients don’t list salt, why are you adding something that isn’t needed? I
Maybe the recipe will taste better if you add the salt. I add chocolate chips to many recipes that don’t list them as an ingredient, and the end result always tastes better.
I would add3/4 teaspoon of kosher salt it balances the sweetness
I agree with you on this Stephen!