Santa’s Favorite Christmas Blondies — 💚🎅❤️SOFT, buttery blondies loaded with white chocolate, sprinkles, and tangy cream cheese frosting!! EASY and perfect for Christmas parties and holiday events!!
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Easy Christmas Bar Recipe
For this Christmas dessert that will put everyone in a festive holiday mood, I called upon my trusty blondie base.
When I want an easy, fuss-free, one-bowl, no-mixer recipe that I know everyone will love, it’s my go-to. With 30+ versions and counting, it never lets me down.
The sprinkles on top and white chocolate chips throughout provide a lovely texture contrast to the soft, buttery bars.
The bars are perfect for Christmas and holiday parties or even for a last-minute cookie exchange when you need something much faster and easier than cookies. Another reason I love these blondies!
Ingredients for the Christmas Blondies
For the Christmas blondie bars and the homemade cream cheese frosting, you’ll need:
- Unsalted butter
- Egg
- Light brown sugar
- Vanilla extract
- All-purpose flour
- White chocolate chips
- Salt
- Cream cheese
- Confectioners’ sugar
- Holiday sprinkles
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Christmas Blondies
This is an easy blondie recipe to memorize because everything is ‘one.’ Here are the steps:
- In the 1 bowl used, melt 1 stick of butter, stir in 1 egg, 1 cup of brown sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla, and 1 cup flour.
- Fold in 1 cup of chocolate chips in the batter.
- Turn the batter into a lined 8×8-inch square pan. Bake until the top is set.
- Let the blondie bars cool completely to room temperature before topping with cream cheese frosting. (I also garnished mine with holiday sprinkles and white chocolate chips, just because!)
Recipe FAQs
Nope! f you’re in a rush before the holidays — and aren’t we all? — feel free to cheat and use a store bought tub of frosting. No one will know the difference, promise.
These Christmas bars will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days. I am comfortable storing frosted items at room temperature but if you’re not, store in the fridge.
Of course! I made these white chocolate blondies for Christmas, but by using different colors of sprinkles they can be made for another holiday!
Yep! Simply double the ingredient amounts and bake the blondie bars in a 9×13-inch pan. The bake time will likely need to be increased by a few minutes, but not much more than that!
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White Chocolate Christmas Blondies
Ingredients
Blondies
- ½ cup unsalted butter, 1 stick, melted
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Frosting
- 6 ounces cream cheese, softened (lite okay)
- ¼ cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- about 1/2 white chocolate chips
- about 3 to 4 tablespoons red and green or holiday sprinkles
Instructions
Blondies:
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line an 8-by-8-inch baking pan with aluminum foil, spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- To a large, microwave-safe bowl add the butter and heat to melt, about 1 minute on high power.
- Wait momentarily before adding the egg so you don’t scramble it. Add the egg, brown sugar, vanilla, and whisk until smooth.
- Add the flour, salt, and stir until just combined, don’t overmix.
- Add the white chocolate chips and stir to combine.
- Turn batter out into prepared pan, smoothing the top lightly with a spatula as necessary. Bake for about 20 to 22 minutes, or until top is set in center and done; don’t overbake. Blondies firm up as they cool. A toothpick should come out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.
- Place pan on a wire rack to cool completely before frosting.
Frosting:
- Use store bought frosting OR to a large bowl, add the cream cheese, butter, and beat with a handheld electric mixer until smooth.
- Add the confectioners’ sugar, vanilla, salt, and beat to incorporate and until frosting is smooth.
- Spread frosting evenly over bars.
- Evenly sprinkle the white chocolate chips and sprinkles before slicing and serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I am a huge fan of blondies and these festive Christmas ones are seriously calling my name! Yum! Pinned!
Thanks for pinning! I just saw your sugar cookies moments ago – they look delish!
Is your recipe missing baking soda and/or baking powder? Just realized it didnt have any after i just stuck it in the oven…
It’s not missing either. There is none used. Enjoy!
Blondies over brownies any day for me, but especially when they’re holly jolly like this business. Wonderful! You’re truly a blondie whisperer.
I love it…blondie whisperer! Have a great weekend :)
Recipes you can memorize are the best! I love how flexible these are! Perfect for holiday baking!
I only have a few baking recipes a million percent memorized, but this is one of them :)
These sound amazing any time of year! I’ve also been meaning to mention that I like your videos that go along with the recipes too–I’ve seen quite a few of them!
Thanks for noticing the videos! They are tons of work and I post them on my social media and they do run on my blog as well. Nice to know you’ve noticed them :) Have a great weekend!