the remnants of a can of crystallized ginger bits

I have been trying to think of something to make with the remnants of a can of crystallized ginger bits that my sister in law left in my cupboards when she was here for Thanksgiving last year.  It's important to look in your baking cupboard regularly to see what's there that might be about to expire so you can use it up.   When I happened upon  this  recipe that I had printed out a month or so ago, I got out the mixer and pre-heated the oven. 

These are Ginger Walnut Chocolate Blondies.  They are good.  Really good.  In addition to helping you use up your leftover ginger bits, they will also get you in the mood for fall.  Yes.   I said it.  Fall!   Pumpkins.  Mums.  Warm, fragrant, spicy baked goods.  It can not come fast enough for me.  

Comments

[Carol Gossett]

My absolute favorite time of year! I'm resigned to hunkering down and enduring the rest of August, with the thought that fall IS on its way! It's been positively hellishly hot in So Cal the last 2 weeks...

[Carol Gossett]

P.S. That pan of Ginger Walnut Chocolate Blondies looks delectable! :-)

[Chrissy]

Ginger is our weakness in this house - in all its forms. I'm definitely going to make these - once the heatwave which just hit France is over.

Honestly, can the weather man never get it right? We've had the gloomiest chilliest summer for years and years. Now a blast of heat is coming our way, up to 100 degrees. We're going to sleep outside in the Bee Garden and take our chance with the night creatures.

Oh - and I DO remember the lady with the orange crocks from yesterday's post. So cool.

[Joan Clarke]

Our fall season doesn't come until the week before Halloween...ugh, Las Vegas has one of the longest summers of any city/state except Phoenix, AZ...we're in the triple digit temps until the week before, then the cold front moves in from north and fall is officially here...the one good thing is that we don't have an official "winter"...usually sweatshirt or sweater weather, nice but windy spring, then back to summer.

The ginger blondie goodies look wonderful and probably smell even
wonderfuller!(A new word I just invented)

Fall is the best time of year...wish it lasted longer. My favorite, the smells, the crisp air, the changing leaves...pumpkins and Halloween and Thanksgiving, it just doesn't get any better than that.

[Leslie J. Moran]

Love the recipe. I too cannot WAIT for fall. The air has changed here now and there is some premature "colouring" of the foliage, partly due to high temps and no rain, but still reminiscent of the next season to come. No more fertilizing the perennials, just maintaining the annuals and dreaming of new gardenscapes for the spring.