Cinnamon Roll Blondie Bites

Mini cinnamon chip blondies are topped with the perfect cinnamon roll cream cheese frosting!

These perfect fudgy blondie bites are full of cinnamon chips and then topped with an incredible cinnamon roll cream cheese icing.  Either one is delicious on its own, but together you have an incredibly indulgent bite-sized treat.

Cinnamon Roll Blondie Bites

Yield: 24

Ingredients:

- 350g (~1 1/2 cups packed) light brown sugar

- 113g (1/2 cup / 1 stick) unsalted butter

- 170g (~1 1/4 cups) all-purpose flour

- 5g (1 teaspoon) salt

- 1g (1/2 teaspoon) ground cinnamon

- 2 ½g (1/2 teaspoon) baking powder

- 100g (2 large) whole eggs at room temperature

- 5 milliliters / 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

- 160g (1 cup) cinnamon chips

- Frosting recipe below

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350; a 24-cup mini muffin tin with paper or foil cupcake liners and set aside

2. Melt butter and brown sugar in a heavy duty saucepan over medium heat stirring constantly; remove from heat and set aside

3. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, salt, cinnamon and baking powder

4. In a separate large bowl, whisk eggs and vanilla; add melted butter and brown sugar mixture and whisk until combined

5. Slowly whisk in dry ingredients just until combined

6. Fold in cinnamon chips

7. Use a small ladle or medium cookie dough scoop to distribute batter evenly between cups; bake in oven for 15-17 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean from center of blondies; do not overbake

8. Allow to cool and prepare frosting

9. Store blondies in an airtight container up to three days (if it is warm, keep them stored in the refrigerator)

Cinnamon Roll Frosting

Ingredients

• Cinnamon Mixture

• 78g (~1/3 cup packed) light brown sugar

• 21g (1½ tablespoons) unsalted butter, melted

• 1g (1/2 teaspoon) cinnamon

• Buttercream Base

• 113g (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature

• 113g regular or light cream cheese, softened at room temperature

• 320g (~2 cups) powdered sugar

• 2 ½ milliliters (1/2 teaspoon) vanilla

Instructions

1. In a small bowl, stir together the butter, brown sugar and cinnamon; set aside

2. In the large bowl of an electric mixer, beat the butter and cream cheese until smooth and creamy; add the sugar and vanilla and mix on low speed until combined then increase to medium-high speed and beat until light and fluffy

3. Remove bowl from mixer and fold in the brown sugar mixture but do not mix completely

4. Pipe or spread frosting onto cooled blondie bites