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I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE chocolate covered pretzels, so I was a tad excited to bake with pretzel M&Ms this weekend. Have you tried them? They are simply amazing. Sweet, salty, chocolatey, and crunchy. Enough said.
I bought a bag the other day and brainstormed some ways to use them, besides just eating them straight from the bag. Which I did anyway. Can you blame me? 
I decided on blondies. I love blondies – much more than brownies! I swear, it has nothing to do with my hair color.
I set out to bake a sweet/salty blondie. I began by browning some butter. I swear by browning butter – it adds so much depth and flavor to your baked good – so many caramel and butterscotch undertones. Brown butter is my kitchen’s secret little ingredient. And it’s so easy! It makes the house smell incredible as it’s browning.
You can read about my obsession to brown butter here. 
I darn near fainted when I took my first bite out of a finished blondie! So soft and chewy – they completely melt in your mouth! The crunchy m&ms, the salty pretzels, buttery dough – my new favorite blondie. And they are SO easy to make.
I made these with butterscotch chips, instead of the M&Ms, as well. I am a complete fool for anything butterscotch! Here they are the second time I made them. If you’d like to make the butterscotch kind, just add 2/3 cup of butterscotch chips instead of pretzel M&Ms.
If you like salty/sweet, you’ll flip for these blondies.
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makes 16 blondies
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter
- 1 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup pretzel M&Ms
Instructions
- Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly. Remove from heat immediately when the butter begins to turn brown (about 6 minutes). Pour browned butter into large mixing bowl. Stir in brown sugar. Let the mixture cool to room temperature.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 8x8 square baking pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- To the cooled down butter/sugar mixture, stir in egg and vanilla extract. Add flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir in pretzel M&Ms.
- Pour into prepared baking pan and bake for about 25 minutes, or until the top is lightly browned. Allow blondies to cool for at least 1 hour and cut into squares. Store in an airtight container for up to 10 days.
Notes
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Bridget has great recipes and these look wonderful. Love the M & Ms. I baked with M & Ms today, too.
thank you averie!!
Literally everything you make looks to die for! I am pinning these along with like 50 other treats of yours. Thanks for all the inspiration!
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Thank you Kaylee! You are SUCH a sweetheart. So glad I found your blog!
Can you brown light butter? I’m trying this recipe tonight but can’t seem to get my butter to brown.
Hi Amanda! I do not suggest using light butter in these blondies. I use light butter in my blondies that have another fat like peanut butter or almond butter. It will greatly affect the texture. However, I haven’t tried browning light butter before but I imagine it would brown the same way as regular. I’m sorry you were having trouble. I would start over with regular butter!
Thanks! The light butter was too watery for browning I think. I bet it will still taste awesome! I will try again will regular butter soon!! p.s. How do you stay so small with all of these yummy desserts!! OMG!! I’m in love with your blog!
Thankfully I have a healthy appetite otherwise. Thanks Amanda! Let me know how the regular butter works out.
I’m with you. I love those pretzel m&m’s. These blondes look amazing. Now if I can’t only stay out of the bag long enough to still have some candy left to make these!
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I know what you mean Tessa, I can NEVER keep popping those pretzel M&Ms. they are addicting!
Mmmm, I want to eat these right now! If this gives you an idea of how much I love Pretzel M&Ms, my husband proposed by putting the ring in a bag of Pretzel M&Ms, hahaha. So delicious! I’ve never baked with them, but I’m sure gonna give it a shot now!
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Ali! That is TOO funny!!!! What a perfect way to propose – lol I would love something like that! Well, you have to make these then – maybe for your anniversary!
Hi Sally,
Will the recipe change drastically if I don’t brown the butter? Can I just use regular softened butter or will I have to change the other ingredients?
Thanks!
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Hey Ikhlas! You may use melted butter instead of browned butter here – not softened. You’ll love these!
Thanks, Sally! Can’t wait to make them
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I made these last night. Crazy good.
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woohoo! That’s great to hear Ashley! I love these.
These are cooling right now….I can’t wait to try them!!!!! I thought I would surprise my daughter with them when she gets home from school!
Amy, what a sweet mom you are! I would love to come home to a plate of these.
I love pretzel M&Ms. Hope you all enjoy!
My GOODNESS these look fantastic! Y’know, I have yet to try a recipe with browned butter (mostly because it sounds like too much work, haha), but I think I should probably give it a go for these babies. Also, I’m instantly sold due to the Pretzel M&Ms!
YUM.
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Do you make all these in your own kitchen or do you have a base of operations or something?? (for surely so fantastical a place could never be called an “office”, no no, that would rub away at some of the candyland magic…)
x
Everything is made in my kitchen!
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