Reduced-Fat Blondies

Name: Reduced-Fat Blondies
Yield: Makes 16 blondies
Ingredients: 2 cups (10 ounces/283 grams), all-purpose flour; 3/4 teaspoon, salt; 1/4 teaspoon, baking soda; 1 3/4 cups packed (12 1/4 ounces/347 grams), brown sugar; 5 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted; 1 , large egg plus 2 large whites, room temperature; 4 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1 1/2 teaspoons, cider vinegar; 2 ounces (57 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine; 1/4 cup, pecans, toasted and chopped

Desserts or Baked Goods
Light

By Carolynn Purpura MacKay ･ Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2013

To lighten up blondies, we’d need to get rid of more than half of the butter. But when we did so, our problems cascaded.

SERVES Makes 16 blondies

TIME 50 minutes, plus 2 hours cooling

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