Sweet and salty Maple Bacon Blondies have a chewy blondie base and are topped with a creamy maple frosting loaded with crunchy bacon.
Sweet and salty desserts are my jam. Try our holiday chex mix for the ultimate snack. Or give our candied cinnamon pecans a try. Perfect for snacking or adding to salads!
Bacon Blondies
Butterscotch Blondies are always a crowd pleaser. Add a little bacon and maple to the mix and you have an instant flavor pairing.
- The best blondie recipe for fall, these are packed with maple flavor to get you in the mood for cooler weather.
- In only 35 minutes, you can have a unique and delicious dessert for any party or potluck.
- The perfect blend of sweet and salty makes this recipe complex and crave-able.
Love sweet and salty desserts? Try our no bake haystack cookies for a classic reader favorite!
Important Ingredient Notes
- Light Brown Sugar – Don’t forget to pack the brown sugar when you measure it to ensure the recipe is consistent and has the right amount of sweetness.
- Unsalted Butter – Melt and cool the butter to room temperature before starting this recipe. This way, you’ll get flawless chewy blondies every time.
- Salt – Use kosher salt for this recipe since it’s not as salty as regular table salt. With the addition of bacon to the recipe, you don’t want a sodium overload.
- Maple Flavoring – It’s worth it to add Maple Flavoring to your fall baking arsenal. Maple syrup will not work here as it’s not concentrated enough.
Easy Instructions
- Combine brown sugar and melted butter. Mix these ingredients in a large bowl until the sugar has almost completely dissolved.
- Incorporate eggs and vanilla. Add the vanilla to the bowl and fully incorporate the eggs into the mixture one at a time.
- Stir in the rest of the blondie ingredients. Mix in the salt, flour, and maple flavoring. Stir until just combined, making sure to scrape the bowl during the process.
- Bake and then cool blondies. Spread the batter into a parchment-lined 8” square baking dish, and bake at 350°F for 32-35 minutes. Then, allow the blondies to cool completely in the pan.
PRO-TIP: If you insert a toothpick into the center of the blondies, and it comes out clean, without any gooey batter attached, it’s baked!
- Whip together frosting ingredients. With a stand or hand mixer, beat the butter until light and fluffy. Beat in the powdered sugar in additions. Then whip in the maple flavoring and milk.
- Frost the cooled blondies and top with bacon. Spread the buttercream across the blondies. If you’re serving these bars immediately, top them with crumbled bacon and cut them into individual pieces.
Aimee’s Pro Tip
Cook your bacon to crunchy, as it tends to soften some while sitting on the frosting!
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Maple Bacon Blondies
You’re going to love these Maple Bacon Blondies! From the chewy blondie base, to the sweet maple frosting and salty bacon, these will be gone in no time!
Ingredients
For the Blondies:
- 1 ½ cup light brown sugar packed
- ¾ cup unsalted butter melted
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
For the Frosting:
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon maple flavoring
- 2 Tablespoons milk I use skim
- ¼ lb bacon cooked and crumbled
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line an 8-inch square baking dish with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, blend the brown sugar with melted butter. Add in eggs and vanilla, stir until combined. Add salt, flour, and maple flavoring, mixing until well blended. Pour into prepared baking dish.
- Bake for 32-35 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack.
- For the frosting, beat butter with powdered sugar, maple flavoring and milk until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Spread over COOLED blondies. Sprinkle with cooked bacon.
Notes
- Store any leftover blondies in an airtight container in the fridge. They’ll stay fresh for about 3 days.
- Add crumbled bacon to the top of the blondies before serving since refrigerated bacon will be soft instead of crunchy. And cook the bacon to crunchy so it starts off with the best texture!
- Make sure the blondies are completely cooled before frosting. Otherwise, your buttercream will melt.
- See blog post for more recipe tips and tricks.
Nutrition
Serving: 1bar, Calories: 213kcal, Carbohydrates: 25g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 11g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g, Cholesterol: 44mg, Sodium: 100mg, Sugar: 19g
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Can’t wait to try this recipe they look great!
These are a wickedly good combination! Yesterday I went to dinner with my friends, and we were all on your phones while we waited for our check 🙂
Haha, that’s what I’m talking about 🙂
Bacon makes everything better, no doubt about that! And this is one recipe to put on my “must try” list. Thanks for sharing!
These brownies are beyond amazing!!!
Mmmm, awesome blondies!!
And I JUST noticed your note about “shugary” being correct…lol! It made me giggle.
These look so amazing. What a great combination of flavors. I bet they were spectacular.
I bought my first computer when my son was four (1989) because I knew he would need to know all about them y the time he started school and I never regretted it. In second grade, he taught his teacher how to do things on the computer as ell as the rest of the class.
All teenagers have been the bane of existence for their parents, I think. But, somehow, we all survive and have kids of our own.
I love all of this technology and can’t understand how people my age (66) don’t all embrace it.
And, I can’t wait to try your recipe.
It just makes me laugh when people rant about the internet and how much time people are on technology. If it had been here 20 or 30 years ago, it would still be the same as today. People are going to use what is available to them. We do not have any dictionaries or encyclopedias in our house because google is great! Our kids do so much of their homework online now too. But I’m still not convinced on the bacon on my sweets…I still have to have it with cheese and ranch! LOL! They do look pretty good though!!! Maybe one day you will convince me go over to the bacon/sweet dark side!
Thanks a ton for the shout out–you know I love my salty and sweet and these look awesome! And I hear you about the teen thing. I don’t have any yet (getting closer–eek!) but I did hear a (frankly old) lady complaining about the new generation work ethic the other day in the most sweeping, obscene manner. I really wanted to say something but could tell it wasn’t worth my breath. And yeah I was always plugged into my headphones too. Still might be if I didn’t have to listen for the kids!
UGH. YES, the “sweeping” manners digs deep in me! I usually don’t say anything either, I just come home and rant on the blog, LOL!!
Omg, these look insane. As in, I need to make them right now.
These blondies look to die for!
these look as the autumn days, the recipe is great and it’s a perfect dessert, I LOVE THEM
AMEN sista!! Preach it. Technology is part of today’s world. Our kids need to know that life and people have a place, but when they’re going to be on a screen a lot of the time. That’s just how it is today!
And I’m totally on board with these, you know I am!! Maple bacon heaven!!
Technology isn’t going anywhere…and I’m so over the idea that we need to limit it to basically nothing. My kids do all their reports and studying and homework on a computer. We don’t own a set of encyclopedias, we have Google.
Crazy. Just this morning, I was thinking about my 8-year-old. He’s begging for a phone. Then it dawned on me the exact same thing you said: if I had technology at his age, you bet your grandma’s stockings that I would have played with it! … He’s still not getting a phone. Maybe next year. 🙂
ps. Maple and bacon.. YUM!
Amen, Amen, Amen! And these blondies? WANT. PINNED!
Preach, Aimee! I teach high school and I talk to my teens all the time about tech use. They’re actually super worried about the generations to come! They admit they’re total addicts, but you’re right. It’s not their fault. We can’t create new technology and then get upset when people use it. And BTW, it’s not like we’re all not addicted to our phones!
Walkman, ha. I LOVED my Walkman.
These look super good!
Oh my goodness, I need to make these for my bacon loving brother! They look absolutely delicious!
Amen! Love this and totally remember taping songs from the radio 🙂 Love these bars. Bacon gets me every time. Thanks for the link love. 🙂
WOW!!! These are great!! And yes, we were all teenagers once and yet they will drive us crazy just like we just we use to do 🙂
I can’t say too much about the teen subject, because I have zero of them myself. BUT, I do have taste buds. And these Maple Bacon Blondies make their salty-sweet loving selves VERY VERY happy! Pinned!