Dirty Blondies

In honor of being back in California, I'd like to share my dirty blondies! Not the "blondes" with glaring dark roots that crowd the streets of downtown, but a delicious combination of blondie and brownie.  This recipe came from my wanting to bring something new to a gathering of friends.  I'd already peddled my blondies, but the only other option in my, at the time bare, cabinets was brownies and that was too plain.  Not able to decide, I turned to my sister for suggestions, well really just to whine and to see what she could make of it.  As she often does, she quickly came to a conclusion...just combine them.  It turned out that just combining them was just brilliant!  The chocolatey brownies were a perfect base for the brown sugar, butterscotchy blondies and these dirty blondies, a name coined with a little help from my Nashville friends, were an instant crowd pleaser.
Simple and simply amazing, these will satisfy any sweet tooth :)

Brownie Ingredients
1 bag chocolate chips
Duncan Hines Chewy Fudge Brownie box mix (how easy is that?)
According to fudgy, NOT cake-like, brownie instructions:
2                       eggs
1/4 cup              water
1/2 cup              vegetable oil

Blondie Ingredients
1 1/2 cups           packed brown sugar
1 cup                 butter
2 1/4 cups          flour
3/4 tsp              baking soda
1/2 tsp               salt
2                       eggs
1 tsp                  vanilla
1 bag                 butterscotch chips

Warning: this does require some extra dishes and washing, but it's worth it...I promise!

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Spray sides of 9x13in baking pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper.

Brownies
3. Prepare brownie batter according to fudgy brownie instructions.
4. Mix in chocolate chips.
5. Pour batter into baking pan and set aside.

Blondies
6. Put the sugar in mixing bowl.
7. Melt butter and pour over sugar.
8. Stir butter and sugar until smooth and combined.
9. Mix in eggs and vanilla.
10. Mix in dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt).
11. Mix in butterscotch chips.

Dirty Blondies
12. Spoon dollops of blondie batter on top of brownie batter in 9x13in pan.
13. Spread the blondie batter to cover brownie batter. Be gentle when spreading because the blondie batter is thicker than the brownie.  Don't worry about spreading it perfectly even, there will always be some people that want more of the brownie than blondie and vice versa.
14. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Definitely err on the side of less is more. The gooey-er these are, the better!