"Reese's Pieces" Blondies

I might get the hang of this blogging thing someday. Today is not that day, but the first blog post is always hard to master, right? I had to use my computer and my cell phone to write this post because my phone had the pictures and the computer was easier to type on. I figured that part out, at least.

About the recipe: I have no idea where I got it. I know it was from the internet, but I can't remember exactly what website. I wasn't exactly thinking about a blog when I started the 'printed recipes' book. I can give you two options - Allrecipes.com or the Betty Crocker website. I'll keep better track eventually, and give links.

I used peanut butter chips instead of Reese's Pieces because Reese's Pieces are expensive and nobody has time for them anymore. (And my funds are so limited that my mom usually buys ingredients. I'm unemployed and can't deal with people, so of course I still live with my parents.)

First, a shot of all the ingredients lined up on a counter I forgot to clean:

(Yes, that is a duct-taped couch in the corner. One of our cats got stuck in there once and tried to get back in right after we got her out. That cat is the smart one.)

I like making things from scratch, but I'll be honest, I'm used to mixes, and I get overwhelmed with putting everything back as soon as I use it. Right after this picture was taken, I ended up dropping the brown sugar and spilling it everywhere, but my brother got the broom and the cats didn't investigate, so we cleaned it up without any funny accidents except for a creative almost-swear word.

The last thing the recipe said to add was the chocolate chips and the Reese's Pieces. As I mentioned, we had no Reese's Pieces. This is what it looked like instead...

Reese's Pieces would have made it more colorful, and I probably could have put in a few sprinkles, but I'd been working on this for about an hour and only just realized that I had forgotten to preheat the oven. I really didn't want to have more to do.

It wasn't easy to put it in the baking pan, either. I'm used to things just flowing from the mixing bowl into the pan, so the need for a spatula was another thing I didn't prepare for. The smell got my brother interested in the finished product, though, and he doesn't usually like chocolate and peanut butter together. So, a partial success, I guess.

It also looks a lot better when it's all mixed together.

When the oven had finished preheating, I baked it for half an hour, just like the directions said. I might have forgotten to turn the pan around, so one side ended up getting more cooked than the other, but the end result turned out ok.

The taste was a little off, but the only thing I didn't like about them was the peanut butter chips. My brother liked them, so it wasn't a bad recipe.

I'll probably try it again with actual Reese's Pieces, but until I can afford to buy them myself, I guess I'll just have to deal with the cheap peanut butter chips. As for this batch, they're not inedible. Picking out the peanut butter chips, they make a really good peanut butter cookie.