Double Coffee Brown Butter Blondies

These blondies are a perfect lunch-time pick-me-up. The problem is, they're full of caffeine and hard to resist even at eleven o'clock at night!

Ingredients (for a 9x13 pan, or about 20 Blondies)

2 sticks (16 T) butter
2 1/4 cups flour
1 t baking soda
1/2 t baking powder
1 1/2 t salt
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs
1 T vanilla extract
2 T instant espresso powder
1/4 cup coffee liquor (Kahlúa or my favorite, Caffé Lolita)

Get your ingredients together before starting--it makes everything else go faster!

Put both sticks of butter into a saucepan over medium heat. Stir while it melts, then boils, and finally becomes a rich, frothy brown.

Pour the browned butter into a large mixing bowl. Add the sugars and mix well, then add the eggs, vanilla, and coffee liquor and mix again.

Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, espresso powder, and salt in a sieve and sift them over the liquid. Fold the dry ingredients into the batter gently.

Bake at 350 Fahrenheit for 35 to 40 minutes. These are very moist, so a toothpick will have some coffee-loaded blondie bits attached to it if you test them. As long as the pan doesn't slosh, that's okay. If you like a firmer blondie, add another five minutes to the bake time.