These Cookies and Cream Blondies are soft, gooey, and rich, made with white chocolate and filled with chopped Oreos, then topped with a smooth white chocolate ganache and cookie crumbs.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword blondies, cookies and cream, oreo
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 35 minutesminutes
Cooling & Ganache 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour50 minutesminutes
Servings 9squares
Calories 460kcal
Author Camila Hurst
Ingredients
1¼cupchopped white chocolate212g
¾cupunsalted butter170g
1cupwhite granulated sugar200g
2large eggs
1large yolk
2tspvanilla extract
2cupsall-purpose flour255g
¼tspsalt
15Oreoschopped small (150g)
Oreo Ganache
1cupchopped white chocolate170g
⅓cupheavy cream
5-6crumbled Oreos
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 350ºF. If your oven runs hot, or if it's convection or gas, set it to 325ºF instead. Grease and line a 8×8” square pan with parchment paper. Don’t use a glass pan as it can bake unevenly.
To make the batter, mix the unsalted butter and white chocolate in a large bowl. Place the bowl in the microwave or over a double boiler to melt them together. Microwave for 15 to 30 second increments, stirring in between until the chocolate has melted completely with the butter. If using a double boiler, make sure the bowl is heat-proof, and place it over a pan with simmering water, and whisk the mixture until the chocolate and butter have melted together.
Add the granulated sugar to the melted chocolate/butter mixture.
Whisk. The mixture will seem separated. That’s okay. Once you start adding the eggs, it will emulsify and come together.
Add the eggs, one at a time, whisking until incorporated before adding the next egg.
Add the final yolk along with the vanilla. Whisk to combine.
Add the flour and salt to the bowl. Fold with a spatula.
Add the chopped Oreos. Fold.
Pour the batter in the prepared pan. Use a spatula to smooth it out.
Bake the blondies in the oven for 35 minutes, until the blondies look set around the edges and on top. And a toothpick inserted in the blondies doesn’t come out with gooey batter stuck on it.
If the blondies are browning too much on top, but the middle isn’t cooked yet, cover with aluminum foil to finish baking.
Remove the blondies from the oven and let them cool
Oreo Ganache
Heat up the heavy cream until it reaches 175ºF, or until very hot in the microwave, before it comes to a boil.
Pour the hot cream over the white chocolate. Cover and let sit for 1 minute.
Whisk until the chocolate is completely melted.
Let the ganache cool down to a thick consistency before using. You can place it in the fridge to speed up the setting process, stirring every 5 minutes. Pour over the cooled blondies. Sprinkle with the cookie crumbs.
Let it set for about 30 minutes. Then slice and serve.
Storage
Store the blondies in an air-tight container, at room temperature for up to 2 days. Or in the fridge, for up to 6 days. Let them come to room temperature by letting them sit on the counter for 20 minutes before serving. You can also freeze the baked blondies for up to 2 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight.
Notes
Pan: Don’t use a glass pan to make the recipe. It’s better to use a steel or metal pan. Glass pans heat up slowly, which can result in blondies with an underdone center, and overcooked edges.White Chocolate: Don’t use candy melts. Use white chocolate, preferably good quality white chocolate with over 20% of cocoa butter in it. If you can’t find white chocolate chips with that amount of cocoa butter in it, you can get white chocolate baking bars or Lindt white chocolate bars and chop it to use in the recipe. My favorite white chocolate brand is Callebaut, I buy it online.