i think caramel bits are horrible. i would do just pecans.

Yum!! They sound delicious!!

Thanks all!!! In the end I went with half chocolate and half salted caramel. Left out the nuts since they’re more polarizing and in case there’s any allergies at the dinner I’m going to. I had a little taste and I think they’re going to be really good.

PP, I agree that the flavor of blondies is just perfection by itself (I also prefer my chocolate chip cookies without chocolate) but I think we’re in the minority.

I used the cook’s illustrated Blondie recipe. Interestingly, the butter is just melted, not browned but they still have that caramel-y taste.

I would prefer just pecans. Blondies are so delicious that chocolate chips and the terrible caramel/butterscotch chips distract from the rich browned butter flavor of a blondie. Pecans enhance them. Save the chips for chocolate chip cookies or magic cookie bars

Hmm - how sweet is the base? I don’t love super sweet blondies, so would probably just do chocolate myself, no pecans. I do a browned butter blondies, so that gets the caramel flavor.

I’d do the pecans and caramel chips, myself. But you can’t go wrong!

Oooooh, use both chips. Leave the pecans out. Instead, fry them up on some butter, herbs and salt. Put them out as an appetizer.

I have semi-sweet chocolate and I have salted caramel baking chips. Should I use one or the other or both in my blondies? I also have some pecans.

It's hard for me to decide because I always prefer baked goods with no chunks at all but I want to please the crowd tomorrow.