Quick and easy blondies recipe. Spiced up with a touch of nutmeg and cinnamon, these light blondies have Hershey’s pumpkin spice kisses inside them
You know what happens when you travel most of the summer and the only camera you use to take photos is your phone one?
You don’t? I didn’t either until it happened to me.
You forget your DSLR camera settings and take some rubish photos.
Leaving the photos aside, I’m in love with the Pumpkin Spice Kisses
I remember seeing some mouth-watering recipe using these spiced chocolate candy last year but in my neck of the woods there were nowhere to be found.
Last week while doing some grocery shopping I spotted with my brown eyes the Halloween corner at the local store and went to check it out.
To my surprise, there they were, shelves filled with tons of candy including Hersey’s Pumpkin Spice Kisses.
I didn’t have to think twice before grabbing few bags (just to be on the safe side)
After eating almost a whole bag (some taste testing was mandatory) idea of a cake with kisses started to develop in my head.
Since I associate fall with blondies, it wasn’t far until I decided to bury some of these irresistible kisses in the blondies batter.
If you don’t like the idea of having candy in your blondies, you can leave them out, but you’re missing out!
Yields one 8X8 baking pan
Pumpkin spice kisses hidden in a light blondie spiced up with a touch of nutmeg and cinnamon.
15 minPrep Time
25 minCook Time
1 hrTotal Time
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Ingredients
- 8 tbsp (113 grams) room temperature butter
- 1/3 cup (65 grams) brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup (120 grams) (Bob's Red Mill) Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 8-10 Hershey's pumpkin spice kisses
- 2 oz white melting chocolate candy
- 2-3 Hershey's pumpkin spice kisses
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350F. Line an 8X8 baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, with the paddle attachment on, cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy, for about 2-3 minutes
- Add the two eggs, one at a time, mixing well and scraping the bowl after each addition.
- In a separate bowl sift the flour with the baking powder, cinnamon and nutmeg.
- Slowly add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Stir to combine.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and added the pumpkin spice kisses, pressing gently.
- Bake for 23 minutes and leave to completely in the pan.
- When cooled, melt the white chocolate candy, spread over the blondies and grate the remaining pumpkin kisses.
- Enjoy!
You may also like :
Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Kiss Cookies at Barbara Bakes
Chai Pumpkin Spice Thumbprints at Pass the Sushi
Double Pumpkin Kissed Chocolate Chunk Cookies at Picky Palate
Sending love your way,
Roxana
Pumpkin kisses?? How did I not know about this?! OK, now you’ve started something… 🙂
How adorable these pumpkin kisses! These blondies look irresistible.
Niiiiice!! And the photos are gorgeous!
I bet I won’t find these kisses in my neck of the woods :/
Yum, these look heavenly! Taste testing is a rough part of the job, but someone has to do it ;).
this has me written all over it! Pumpkin, blondies, kisses! I am hooked. I’ll swap you my zucchini sandwiches for this! LOL!
I have never seen these kisses before. Totally need to find them – so many ideas!
These were love at first sight, Roxana. These are on my Halloween party list! They look so great! That said..thank you so much for the invite….that was so sweet of you *hugs*
I have never seen these kisses, but I’ll look for them now! I love blondies…and the surprise in the center make these irresistible!
I didn’t even know there were pumpkin spice kisses! I’ll have to try to find some now, this looks amazing!!
They have pumpkin flavored kisses? Must be on the lookout for these, these blondies sound yummy.
-Gina-
Yay!! For pumpkin kisses being back in town…I need to go the store and find some!! And candy kisses in blondies…yes, please!! I will take about 6 large pieces please:-)
I’ve somehow missed out on these little gems (pumpkin flavored kisses). But not anymore! Your brownies look yummy. A sweet reminder that fall is fast approaching too…
Pumpkin Kisses? Something new to me! But, I like the idea of layering them into a blondie bar cookie;-) Your photos look lovely, as always;-)
oh wow. pumpkin kisses.. these blondies are genius!
Pumpkin kisses plus blondies make a gorgeous fall treat! These look awesome & now I need a cup of pumpkin coffee! 🙂
These bars look amazing and they make me so excited for fall!
Oh these photos are delectable! At least in my mind! And I can’t believe it is already time for pumpkin season. How exciting! Thank you for sharing!
These look so tasty! I have not seen the hershey pumpkin kisses – need to find soon. Hard to believe that fall is just around the corner and how perfect are these for the next season. 🙂
I just adore your pictures. They are truly mouthwatering. I feel like I could jump in and take a bite!
Okay it’s me! I haven’t tried these kisses yet. Pumpkin spices? That’s real fancy like my favorite latte. I’ll have to check it out and your blondies… oh wow you know how to use the right ingredients for delicious baked goods. Looks really good Roxana!!
I d surely love some too Roxana!
They look wonderful and making my own batch will come handy. My husband is going to go nuts for those.
Wish u a lovely weekend!
I can’t wait for fall. I know it won’t actually be felt here til around December, but I can pretend it’s cooler and bake with pumpkin:)These little kisses must be so good! Love these blondies;)
Where did you buy the pumpkin spice kisses? I have been looking around for them but havent seen them yet this year.
Hi Gabe,
I bought them from my local Wegmans. I rarely shop elsewhere so I don’t know what other stores carry them.
They look so good! Pinned! Those Kisses – mmm, need to get my hands on them!
can i replace Whole Wheat Pastry Flour with regular flour?
Hi Rebekah,
you could use regular whole wheat flour of just all-purpose flour.
ahhh these look so good. i love anything pumpkin.
there are no words to describe how perfect these look to me!!!!!
xo
Love this recipe! Will be linking back to this in my upcoming post 🙂
I’d forgotten about these fun Kisses. Your cake looks scrumptious! Thanks for the link love.
These are so adorable! We added them to our Tasty Tuesday Welcome Fall list & can;t wait to see more!
I have half a bag of these kisses left and trying to find recipes that aren’t blossom cookies. Looks like I found a winner!!
What a fun way to change up blondies. Thanks for the link love!
Can I substitute whole wheat flour for cake flour?? and if so, how much would I need?? Thank you!
Hi Veronica,
You can use cake flour instead of whole wheat flour, but it will have more of a cake like dessert. Since whole wheat flour has more gluten I suggest adding 1 more tablespoon of cake flour to the batter to adjust the dry-wet ingredients ratio