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Ingredients
- 2 cups (255 g) AP flour
- 1 t baking powder
- 1 t salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 T vanilla
- 1½ cups total of chocolate chips and/or chopped nuts (Alex chose to use half dark chocolate chips and half semisweet chocolate chips)
- coarse salt for salting the tops of the blondies
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