These 30 brownies, bar & blondies recipes have something for everyone, whether your penchant is for cakey or chewy, firm or gooey, chocolatey or otherwise.
Small Batch Brownies
These small batch brownies are made from scratch and baked in a loaf pan, which means they make just enough for two so you don’t have an entire baking pan of brownies sitting around all week tempting you. You’re welcome.
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David Lebovitz’s Best Brownies
I’ve made a lot of brownies in my life, and these really are the best.
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Chocolate Chip Brownies
These chocolate chip brownies, made with flour, sugar, butter, and two (two!) types of chocolate, are slightly sweet, fudgy, and full of chocolatey goodness.
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Gluten-Free Brownies
These gluten free brownies, made with chocolate, butter, and tapioca starch, are remarkably easy and fudgy and, in all seriousness, taste like the real deal even though they’re flourless. Swear.
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Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Fudge Brownies
When you hear that Rose Levy Beranbaum makes fudge brownies, would you expect anything less than the richest, most chocolatey, most wonderful dessert? Of course not. Cooks, meet brownies. Brownies, meet cooks. Let the love affair commence.
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Pumpkin Spice Seven Layer Bars
These pumpkin spice seven layer bars are appropriately autumnal yet hearken back to the classic with graham crackers, sweetened condensed milk, coconut, and chocolate. Lovely any time of year.
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Katharine Hepburn Brownies
Katharine Hepburn brownies are an American classic and so easy to make with everyday pantry ingredients. Turns out dark, rich, intense, chewy fudge brownies. One of our most popular chocolate desserts. Here’s the original recipe.
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One-Bowl Mocha Brownies
These one-bowl mocha brownies, made with instant coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, flour, sugar, and butter, take their kick from caffeine, their ease from everything coming together in a single bowl, and their raves from their spectacularly fudgy texture.
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Skillet Brownies
These skillet brownies are made with dark chocolate, sugar, eggs, almonds or hazelnuts, and cocoa, and baked in a cast-iron skillet. They’re crisp on the edges, gooey in the middle, and just happen to be gluten-free as well.
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One-Pot Cocoa Brownies
These one-pot cocoa brownies are incredibly easy and come together with just flour, cocoa, sugar, and other pantry ingredients in a 9-by-13-inch pan. A cakey brownie that’s close to perfect and the easiest we’ve found to make (and clean up after!). Kids love ’em.
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Dulce de Leche Brownies
A chocolate brownie is a fudgy square of deliciousness with just the right amount of goo, and it beats all when it comes to downright indulgence. I adore the effect of the creamy dulce de leche swirled through dark, fudgy brownies.
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Brownies with Marshmallow Topping
Like the classic campfire treat, but easier to eat and available all year round, these brownies with marshmallow topping are certain to satisfy any s'mores craving.
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Raspberry Cheesecake Brownies
Brownies are one of those incredibly easy things to make with little planning or forethought. They were the first thing I learned how to bake as a kid. Here, though, I've given the standard brownie an update by adding a raspberry-infused cream cheese layer and studded the whole thing with tangy, scarlet berries.
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Nutella Brownies
Nutella brownies actually don’t call for the luscious jarred Italian stuff we go crazy for but rather the ingredients with which its made. Namely, hazelnuts and chocolate. No complaints here. Quite the contrary.
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Brownies For A Crowd
These brownies for a crowd, made with semisweet chocolate aplenty and eggs, butter, flour, and sugar, are cake-y and rich. The recipe makes plenty. A crowd-pleaser for parties, tailgating, bake sales, and more.
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Nancy Drew Blondies
Nancy Drew blondies are like butterscotch brownies that are chewy and gooey and loaded with chocolate chips that melt into a luscious swirl. Lovely in the best, most indulgent way possible.
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S’mores Brownies
These s’mores brownies, layered with bittersweet chocolate brownies, a graham cracker crust, and marshmallows, are as gooey, chocolatey, and messy as the name suggests. Here’s how to make them.
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Care Package Brownies
These care-package brownies, laden with chocolate chips, cocoa nibs, and cocoa powder, are intensely rich and fudgy. They also travel exceptionally well, whether you ship through the post office or simply drop them off on a porch.
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Passover Brownies
Passover brownies are almost always disappointing. Not these. How could they be with matzo meal for Pesach, bittersweet chocolate, sugar, butter, eggs, brandy, and nuts? They’re slightly crumbly outside and splendiferously fudgy inside.
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Coconut Blondies
These coconut blondies, also known as yum-yum squares, are made with vanilla, coconut, and walnuts. They are obscenely rich, fudgy, and every bit as impossible to stop eating as the name suggests.
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White Chocolate Brownies
Roasted or caramelized white chocolate has become so popular that some professional chocolate companies like Valrhona are even selling commercial versions of it now. You'll find these brownies truly spectacular.
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Fruitcake Brownies
Fruitcake brownies? Yup. Think dried fruits–such as figs, cranberries, golden raisins–mixed with chocolate and rum or brandy baked into a brownie pan. Ridiculously inventive.
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Jam Bars
Jam bars. Just what the name implies—a collision of shortbread and preserves cut into bars. Sweet and crumbly and gooey and all around lovely.
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Congo Bars | 7 Layer Bars
These congo bars, also known as 7-layer bars, include a graham cracker base and sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chip, shredded coconut, and pecan topping. And they taste like childhood, too.
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Cashew Caramel Cracker Bars
This cashew caramel cracker bars recipe is made with saltines, sweetened condensed milk, brown sugar, and chocolate. A sinfully easy food gift.
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Cinnamon Pecan Blondie
These cinnamon pecan blondies are a grown-up version of the popular bar and are made with butter, sugar, cinnamon, and pecans and boast a toffee-like taste.
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Pumpkin Swirl Brownies
These pumpkin swirl brownies are made with cream cheese and taste as if pumpkin spice cheesecake swirl collided with chocolate fudge brownies.
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Homemade KIND Bars
Homemade KIND bars are homemade granola bars that are actually healthy. They’re easy to make, too, with nuts, seeds, dried fruit, and any other add-ins you fancy (coconut, anyone?). Gluten free. Low sugar. For breakfast or any other time of day.
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Whole-Grain Fruit-Filled Breakfast Bars
This whole-grain fruit-filled breakfast bar recipe, made with whole grains and fruit, turns out just like Nutri-grain bars. Perfect for breakfast on the go.
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Raspberry Oatmeal Bars
Imagine your favorite raspberry jam sandwiched between layers of cinnamon-scented, almond-flecked oatmeal cookies. A ittle crisp and a little chewy, sweet and tangy.
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