Strawberry Lemon Blondies are an incredible treat for people with sweet tooth. Blondie in general is a variety of dessert bar. It resembles a brownie but instead of chocolate it has vanilla. Today when I found fresh strawberries in the market, I was over whelmed. I wanted to try some thing new which is quick, easy and requires few ingredients easily available from my pantry. My affair with fresh strawberries is pretty old. I have tried in the past Strawberry Preserve, Strawberry Cookies, Italian Focaccia Bread with Strawberries, Tapioca Coconut Milk Pudding with Strawberry Preserve, Strawberry Walnut Babka, Strawberry and Yoghurt Cake .
Over my experience in baking for donkey number of years, I have learnt that berries pair really well with lemon. So I decided to add lemon to these strawberry blondies. The taste was incredible. It was a perfect harmony of sweet, tart and vanilla. These strawberry lemon blondies were some what a cross between a short bread cookie and brownie, texture wise. They looked stunning with that pink glaze.
These strawberry lemon blondies are a crowd pleaser. You can make them in a 9 inch square cookie tray (I used 9 inch square pie pan). It makes 12 blondies in one go and is perfect for a decent size gathering. I am sharing step by step recipe below and for complete recipe with ingredient quantities click here.
Directions:
1. Wash strawberries and hull them. Chop them into small pieces and set side.
2. Preheat you oven for ten minutes on 180 degrees celsius. Line a 9 inch square pan with parchment paper. I am using 9 inch pie pan.
3. In a bowl add unsalted butter which is at room temperature and add fine castor sugar. Cream them together till sugar is dissolved.
4. Add egg and lemon juice and whip it well. Add vanilla essence.
5. In another bowl add all purpose flour and baking powder. If you are using unsalted butter add salt and mix well.
6. Mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients till everything moistens. Do not over mix.
7. Fold chopped strawberries in the batter using a spatula.
8. Pour the batter in the baking pan and spread as evenly as possible.
9. Bake it in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes on 180 degree celsius until the toothpick inserted comes out clean. Do not over bake or else the blondies will turn hard.
10. For the glaze whip washed and hulled strawberries in the jar and make a puree.
11. Pass the strawberry puree through a sieve and take out its juice.
12. Whip together powdered icing sugar , lemon juice and strawberry juice. Apply the glaze on top of the blondies and let it set.
13. After the glaze has set slice these blondies into 12 squares. Serve them with a cup of Coffee or Tea.
Other Cake recipes with fresh fruit you can try are; Persimmon Buckwheat Gluten Free Cake, Citrusy Sweet Lime Cake, Honey Dates Square, Peach Upside Down Cake, Fresh Apricot and Almond Cake, Mango Vanilla Cake, Festive Orange Blueberry Pound Cake, Vanilla & Pomegranate Cake,Lemon Cake with Lemon Glaze, Persimmon Rum Cake, Honey Cake.
- Blondies:
- 1 cup (228 grams)unsalted butter, at room temperature
- ¾ cup (164 grams) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup (55 grams) fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 2¼ cups (306 grams) all purpose flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup (127 grams) diced fresh strawberries
- Glaze:
- 1 cup (112 grams) unsifted powdered sugar
- 1 Tbsp strawberry puree, 2 strawberries approx
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- Wash strawberries and hull them. Chop them into small pieces and set side.
- Preheat you oven for ten minutes on 180 degrees celsius. Line a 9 inch square pan with parchment paper. I am using 9 inch pie pan.
- In a bowl add unsalted butter which is at room temperature and add fine castor sugar. Cream them together till sugar is dissolved.
- Add egg and lemon juice and whip it well.
- In another bowl add all purpose flour and baking powder. If you are using unsalted butter add salt and mix well.
- Mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients till everything moistens. Do not over mix.
- Fold chopped strawberries in the batter using a spatula.
- Pour the batter in the baking pan and spread as evenly as possible.
- Bake it in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes on 180 degree celsius until the toothpick inserted comes out clean. Do not over bake or else the blondies will turn hard.
- For the glaze whip washed and hulled strawberries in the jar and make a puree.
- Pass the strawberry puree through a sieve and take out its juice.
- Whip together powdered icing sugar , lemon juice and strawberry juice. Apply the glaze on top of the blondies and let it set.
- After the glaze has set slice these blondies into 12 squares. Serve them with a cup of Coffee or Tea.