Paleo Buttery Blondies (GF, NF)

By ROBandSEAN

Ingredients

• 1/4 lb (1 stick) of grass fed butter or ghee (at room temp or briefly melted in the oven as it preheats)
• 3/4 cup coconut sugar
• 1 tsp organic vanilla extract
• 1 large pastured egg at room temp
• 1 cup ottos’s cassava flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• 1 cup of dark chocolate chips or crushed up dark chocolate bar (preferably soy free and fair trade)
• OPTIONAL: 1/2 cup raw organic walnuts, chopped

Details

Servings 8
Cooking time 45mins
Adapted from myradicalroots.com

Preparation

Step 1

preheat the oven to 350, and as it preheats melt your butter in an 8 x 8″ glass baking pan (don’t let it get too hot, just melty)
pour sugar into a mixing bowl and add your semi-melted butter, leaving the residue in your pan to keep the blondies from sticking when you bake them
with a mixer, stir sugar and butter on high speed until it’s nice and creamy (about 2-3 minutes)
now, turn the mixer on low, and add the vanilla, then the egg, mixing well and scraping down the sides of the bowl
in a small bowl, sift together the otto’s flour, baking soda and salt
with the mixer still on low, slowly add flour mixture to the butter mixture until blended into a delicious dough (don’t taste it or you’ll never be able to stop and you won’t have any to bake with (it’s that good)
fold the chocolate chips and walnuts in with a rubber spatula
scoop the batter into the pan and smooth the top
bake for 20 minutes, being careful not to over-bake! A toothpick may not come out clean, but the top will be slightly browned
let it cool completely in the pan and cut into squares
ENJOY! We can’t get enough of these but are sure to save them for special occasions. Yum!