Kitchen Accidents and Blondies.

Being that this is my last shift with my beloved Echo Squad, I decided that we would say goodbye with Blondies. See, one of my guinea pigs officers is allergic to chocolate, and unfortunately for him, I love chocolate. So all summer long, I've been baking these delicious treats that had chocolate in them.

I know. Cruel, huh?

Anyway, as I was preparing to bake, I had a slight mishap involving my favorite finger and a sharp blade.

 It may not look like much, but that's actually the third band-aid.

Despite the fact that my finger hurt like heck, I decided to go ahead with the baking because what kind of baking dispatcher would I be if I let a little thing like a mangled finger stop me?

Blondies

Ingredients:

2/3 cups of margarine, melted

2 cups of brown sugar, packed

2 large eggs

2 cups of flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons vanilla

Directions:

1.) Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

2.) In a large bowl, mix the melted margarine and brown sugar.

3.) Mix in eggs to sugar mixture.

4.) Sift flour, baking soda and salt, then mix in with the sugar mixture.

5.) Add in vanilla.

6.) Spread into greased 13x9 pan.

7.) Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Notes: I actually made two batches of this because even though one of my guinea pigs officers can't have chocolate, the rest of them seem to enjoy it as much as I do so I threw in some milk chocolate chips into the second batch. The batter reminds me a lot of cookie dough and because of that, it was a little difficult to spread in the pan.

Edited to Add: The recipe didn't specify if light or dark brown sugar should be used. Since I already had a package of dark brown opened, I used that.

The final outcome looks (and smells) delicious, despite the cookie texture of the chocolate chip batch. I'm not 100% sure how they're going to taste, but I'm demanding an 'A' for effort anyway.