Salted Butterscotch Blondie Bars Recipe

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This Salted Butterscotch Blondie bars recipe is a buttery, soft, and utterly delicious bar cookie. Super simple to make with a bowl and spoon. They are my favorite blondies. You will love these!

History of Blondie Bars

While the origins of Blondie Bars are somewhat obscure, Butterscotch Blondie Bars isn’t so much, thanks to a rising interest in baked confections from bakery shops springing up all over the country.

With unclear origins, the blondie bars may be the predecessor of the beloved chocolate brownie. According to Andrew F. Smith in The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, blondies may be the original brownie. In the late 19th century, early brownie recipes were “brown” because of added molasses. Chocolate wasn’t introduced until the early-20th-century. At about mid-century, molasses brownies became known as blonde brownies. Soon after, simply… blondies, or blondie bars.

With the introduction of chocolate, the popularity of brownies as we know them today, soared.

Blondies vs Brownies Debate

The blondie vs brownie debate will most likely never be decided. My son proposes we have both around on a regular basis. He’s getting awfully good at these “taste tests.”

If you’ve ever visited dŌ in New York, a shop featuring cookie dough confections, or as they like to call it, “dŌlicious,” you’ve probably seen their “Blondie Bars,” a butterscotch flavored salted goodie.

These are not theirs — but a favorite and easy blondie bar cookie I love to make at our home.

And this is that recipe.

If you want to taste test both blondie bars and brownies, here is my favorite chocolate brownie recipe — always up for a good debate, especially when it involves brownies.