These vegan blondies are a delicately light vegan sponge filled with walnuts, chocolate chips and Cookies and Cream natural flavouring.  They’re also dangerously moreish!!

If you’re wondering what the difference between a brownie and a blondie is it’s actually quite simple.  A blondie is a brownie without the chocolate!  So instead of rich cocoa, a blondie gets its flavour from vanilla and brown sugar – making an almost butterscotch like flavoured sponge.  For these vegan blondies I wanted to switch the flavour up another level with Foodie Flavours natural essence.  Specifically their Cookies and Cream.

Oh my goodness the smell of this not only in the bottle but while it was baking was almost intoxicating.  It was one of those typically wet British mornings and all I wanted to do was throw open the doors and windows so that the whole street could get a smell!

I’ve used a variety of Foodie Flavours different essences and flavourings now and each one I think ‘ooo this is my new favourite’.  They are SO good and so versatile.  You can simply enhance a flavour already in the recipe – like these Vegan Jaffa Cakes.  Or add a whole new dimension of flavour as with these vegan blondies.

And like the Best Vegan Brownies recipe, I wanted these vegan blondies to be straight up, no frills, no fuss, good old fashioned cake.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my veggies as much as anyone can but sometimes I want cake that’s cake.  Like proper cake, not cake that’s trying to be healthy with its chickpeas or avocado.  And I’m borderline in danger of over-using nut butters – because NUT BUTTER!  So I tried to keep the not normally cake ingredients to a minimum so that you too can enjoy a chunk of good old fashioned cake when it takes your fancy 😉

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