These carrot cake blondies are lightly spiced and topped with a rich, sweet frosting flavored with bourbon!
These blondies came about for one reason.
I had carrots to use up. You probably know this if you read about those Cauliflower Potato Enchiladas with Chipotle Carrot Sauce I posted recently.
This frosting came about for another.
I was out of dairy. And I couldn’t think of anything other liquid in the house that would be good in it…besides bourbon.
Turns out bourbon saved the day once again.
The blondies are slightly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, and black pepper with specks of soft, sweet carrot. Forget cream cheese. There are few things better to pair them with than this bourbon frosting.
This dessert super simple, straightforward, and mighty tasty so I won’t spend a long time describing them.
It’s the kind of dessert that you can throw together, say, if there is a holiday or celebration that snuck up on you and you didn’t prepare well.
Perfect.
You’ll need bourbon to make the brown sugar syrup, but if you’d rather not add a second dose when the frosting is mixing feel free to substitute some milk or cream. This will work fine and help you get the frosting for the carrot cake blondies to the right consistency.
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