White Chocolate Peppermint Blondies

These white chocolate peppermint blondies are all dressed up for the holidays and ready to win your Christmas cookie swap. They're easy to make: Just top a peppermint-laced chewy blondie with a layer of snow white frosting and a dusting of chopped peppermints. (Because there’s nothing quite like candy canes to put everyone in the holiday spirit.) Pair these with your favorite hot chocolate recipe. We like our peppermint hot chocolate for a double-dose of holiday mint flavor or a classic hot cocoa to balance things out. Eggnog would pair well with the blondies too.

For the easiest prep, look for a bag of pre-chopped peppermint candies, which is a whole lot easier than chopping the sticky candies yourself. If you can’t find them pre-chopped, you can use any kind of hard peppermint candy or candy canes.

Here's a pro-tip that bakers use all the time: After melting the butter, save the wrapper to grease the baking tin. There’s just enough butter sticking to the paper to ensure your blondies won’t stick to the pan.

P.S. If you have a rimmed quarter-sheet pan on hand, you can use it to bake the blondies, since it has the same dimensions as a 13"-by-9" cake pan.

Editor’s Note: This recipe was updated on September 26th, 2022, to reflect changes to the recipe and to include more information about the dish.