Healthier Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies

These Healthier Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies are chewy, moist, delicious, and full of peanut butter flavor with no refined sugar!

It’s not often that I yell about a recipe, but here goes: YOU NEED TO MAKE THESE BLONDIES. RUN! DON’T WALK. THEY ARE THAT GOOD. I made these just this week, and not to toot my own horn, but they were perfect on the first try. So perfect I literally jumped up and down in my kitchen. Yeah. I was yelling for a reason.

I can’t even pick my favorite part. They’re the perfect balance between chewy and cakey, and jam-packed full of peanut butter chocolate flava. Plus they’re healthier than your standard blondie or brownie, which isn’t always necessary but doesn’t hurt when you’re trying to have your cake and eat it too as often as possible.

Health factor aside, though, THEY STILL TASTE AMAZING. Like, the level of amazing typically reserved for desserts with two sticks of butter and a full cup of granulated sugar. You will not believe that these are passably healthy(ish). Or that the batter comes together in one bowl and ten minutes.

Seriously, these are a miracle. Are you sold yet?

What makes these blondies healthier?

That depends on your definition of healthier, I suppose. For starters, they’re naturally sweetened. I made mine with maple syrup, but I’d imagine you’d see similar success with honey, too.

They’re also whole wheat, which gives them an additional nutty flavor that jives really well with the peanut butter. I typically use whole wheat pastry flour for desserts, because it’s much lighter than regular whole wheat flour and yields a lighter, moister crumb. Regular all-purpose flour would also work here if it’s all you’ve got.

Finally, they contain a mere two tablespoons of butter, which is far, far less than the usual full stick. Believe it or not, they’re still incredibly moist, because peanut butter has a fairly high fat content on its own. So you get a) tons of delicious peanutty flavor, and b) a healthier fat source. Win-win.

No matter how much butter is or isn’t in these, though, we’re still not skimping on the chocolate chips. There is no room here for dry, flavorless desserts, no sir. Tons of melty chocolate baked into warm, soft, incredibly peanutty bars? Uh, yeah. Sign me right up.

More delicious dessert recipes:
Orange Olive Oil Cake
Easy Jam Thumbprint Cookies

Did you make these healthier peanut butter chocolate chip blondies? Don’t forget to share a photo on Instagram and tag me @emily.eats.things!

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