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Hey there, lovelies! Guess who finally did some baking this weekend?!
Funny how intensely one can miss something as inanimate as an oven, but I was truly grateful to spend Sunday afternoon catching up with mine.
While our chemistry was a little rusty – there were far more misses than scores – it felt exhilarating to be in it and at it again.
The best thing to come out of my kitchen that day? These flavor boom blondies!
A very basic base jazzed up with zingy orange zest, candied ginger, and big ol’ chocolate chips. They were the perfect rainy afternoon pick me up, and between me and you, they make an excellent base for an ice cream sandwich, if you’re into that kind of thing. 
Orange Ginger Chocolate Blondies – Baker by Nature
1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar (I used light brown granulated sugar)
1 large egg, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 cup all purpose flour
Zest of 1 large orange
1/3 cup crystallized ginger, plus additional 1 tablespoon for sprinkling on top
1/3 cup dark chocolate chips, plus additional 1 tablespoon for sprinkling on top
Preheat oven to 350 degrees (F). Grease an 8×8 baking pan.
In a large bowl combine the melted butter, sugar, and vanilla extract – beat until smooth. Beat in the egg. Gently stir in salt, ground ginger and flour. Fold in orange zest, crystalized ginger, and chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared pan, sprinkle with additional crystalized ginger and chocolate, and bake for 25 minutes, or until set in the middle and edges are golden.
These look absolutely wonderful! I can always count on your blog to have food that are so my type of treats. YUM!
PS – I just reread my comment and realize grammatically it doesn’t make any sense. But it’s a compliment, I promise – your treats always look so tasty to me! =D
Is it bad that it made total sense to me? Because it really did. 🙂
Man, I love crystallized ginger! What a great idea to add it in to a blondie! Genius.
I want to be sitting in your kitchen with a big glass of milk and one of these blondies!
Orange, ginger, AND chocolate? Aaaaaaamazing.
Such a totally perfect flavour combination. I could really go for one of these right now.
wow these look really awesome! I’m never a big brownie maker but these look too tempting not to try!
I love the idea of this flavor combination! Orange and ginger are two of my favorite things. Very creative!
What a lovely flavor combination!
yummm! love this combo of flavors!
A flavor explosion indeed! Woahh!!!
Love this combination! I think my husband would really like these – he loves anything with ginger.
one of the best little treats i’ve ever made are simple clementines dipped in dark chocolate. I just LOVE citrusy orange with chocolate! And the combination with ginger sounds wonderful. 🙂
I thought that might be candied ginger when you posted the pic of these this weekend! Orange and ginger in a baked good sounds so good together. And I’ll never say no to chocolate 🙂
That’s an simple and yum recipe…love the combination of flavours…..
These sound delicious! Love your measuring cups, by the way 🙂
I think that orange and chocolate is one of my fave combinations. Love this!
These look SOO good! Love orange and chocolate together 🙂
what a great flavor combo!!! wow!
I am most definitely into ice cream sandwiches. I’d love to smash some ice cream between two of these blondies and just go to town – yum!
I am with ya girl, these have ice cream sandwich written all over them! Love the ginger!
Can’t wait to try this recipe and I adore your measuring cups!
Oh I am SOOOO into this kind of thing. Love the idea of orange and ginger in a blondie. Also chocolate chips? You can’t go wrong.
I thinkkkkk this could be the coolest thing EVER. Orange and chocolate is SOO meant to be.
What a gorgeous looking recipe my friend, I love the delicious ingredients 😀
And the combo of orange, ginger and chocolate is heaven!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Ashley, this sounds fabulous! I am a huge fan on blondies and now can’t wait to try them with ginger! Pinning to my blondies board 🙂
I love blondies and this is the exact base recipe I use, too. No baking soda, no mixing with white sugar, baked in the same size pan so they’re just the right thickness. Love that you used orange and ginger…mmm! 🙂
What an interesting twist to blondies. And yes to the ice cream sandwich idea, too! 🙂
I love ginger in both sweet and savory dishes, but have never had it paired with chocolate. It sounds like an irresistible combination! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my gosh. You have no idea how much I love the idea of combining these flavors. I have some crystallized ginger leftover from fall baking that I’ve been itching to use up. I might have to give these a try!
omg yum!!! xO!
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I could swear ovens aren’t inanimate, they seem to have lives and personalities of their own. 🙂
The blondies sound delicious. I don’t think I’ve ever made blondies myself, but I really like the orange and ginger in yours.
I love the ginger flavor in this recipe! Yum!
Normally I can take or leave blondies, but adding orange, ginger, AND chocolate makes them completely irresistible! 🙂
I think you are right. Ice cream is meant for these blondies!
Those look unreal!!! Great recipe!
Orange zest and candied ginger? How do you come up with such creative and delicious blondies! I love that you use candied ginger a lot in your baking. These look so good. How do you keep your hands away from them? I’ll be grabbing a piece every time I pass by….
I’m down for anything referred to as flavor boom blondies! Love the orange / ginger / chocolate it has going on. So interesting and unique!