Riot and Frolic

New recipes go against my personality.  I like routine.  I don't like new things.  I like repetition.  

Nonetheless, I've been looking up new recipes with abandon.  And then making them.  

Last weekend, I tried making a copycat recipe of the Starbucks Toffee Almond Bar.  Did anyone else eat their weight in these, like I did?  For some God forsaken reason, 'Bucks stopped making them a few years ago and every once in awhile I get a craving for the delicious blondie brownie, filled with huge milk chocolate, white chocolate, AND toffee pieces.  

Notice I did not include my own photo of these treats.  That's because my version did not look not taste like the original (or possibly even what the recipe intended).

I blame the toffee pieces.  I bought Heath's "milk chocolate toffee bits".  In the words of Pretty Woman, "Big mistake…  Big."

When I opened up the bag, mostly toffee dust emerged.  Lacking options (and being too lazy to call their customer service hotline or return them to Target), I threw the few toffee bits and their overwhelming majority of dust into the blondie batter and stirred it up.

What emerged from my oven was delicious, but not the S.T.A.B. 

OMG, best acronym ever!

Next time, I'm going to buy a bunch of Heath bars and chop them up into big, fat chunks of awesome.  

Question: aren't blondie brownies just chocolate chip cookie dough, without the chips, in a pan?