Blonde Brownies

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2/3 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 15x10x1-inch baking pan, or line with foil.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and salt together, and set aside. Using a large pan, melt the butter and stir in the brown sugar. Let this cool for about 10 minutes (or maybe longer - you don't want the chocolate chips to melt) and then add the eggs one at a time. Be sure to beat well after adding each egg. Add vanilla. Add the flour mixture, the nuts and the chocolate chips and blend well. Spread in the greased pan.
3. Bake 25 to 30 minutes in the preheated oven or until the edges begin to pull away from the sides. Cut into small squares when cool.

Source: allrecipes.com (Blonde Brownies III)

Try #1 - January 31, 2011
These turned out great! I've made blondies before, and they came out very chewy/hard... but these were perfect! I baked them in foil in a 9x13 pan, for about 33 minutes. The original recipe called for 2 1/2 cups brown sugar, but based on a few reviews, I decided to decrease it to 2 cups. I think this was a good move - it wasn't overally sweet and the consistency was still good. You could probably increase the sugar to 2 1/4 cups if you really wanted to... but I think 2 cups was enough. Also, lining the pan with foil made it really easy to remove from the pan. I did make sure that the brownies were fully cooled before slicing and removing them.