The role of Peabody will be played by…
Sometimes I get little polls sent to me on email or via Facebook. They ask questions, sometimes silly ones, about your life so that people can get to know you better. I am always stumped by the question, “what actress would play you in a movie about your life?”
First off, if someone made a movie about my life it would either A. Go straight to DVD. Or B. Become a made for TV movie on either Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel. So that really cuts down on my actress choice. Because really, does Kate Winslet want to be in a made for TV movie, I think not. And though if I were picking a body to play me I would choose Kate Winslet, the reality is (other than she looks nothing like me) is that as lovely as she is as a person, she is not quirky enough to play me. Let’s face it, I really need someone who is a little off center.
In a face recognition program I match up with Hayden Panettiere (the cheerleader from Heros), she would so have to pack on some serious pounds ala Renee Zellweger for Bridget Jone’s Diary to play me. She is far too famous now to pack on the pounds for a made for TV movie. They don’t give out Oscars for that. And now a days the only reason to show yourself naked (tastefully) or gain weight is to try and get and Oscar.
Oh well, I guess I still can’t answer that question. What about you? Who would play you in a movie of your life?
Speaking of things that should be in a movie. This super yummy Snickerdoodle Blondie. I had a reader write me and tell me that though she was a fan of the refund muffin she would like for me to make a new Snickerdoole baked good. So off I went. These are something I so wish I didn’t make. I know that the pan, the whole pan, will be going in my stomach. No amount of gym time will be making up for me eating the whole pan, but darn it, these are good. Especially warm, with slightly melty ice cream.
Snickerdoodle Blondies
8 ounces (two sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup loosely packed light brown sugar
3 ounces Mascarpone cheese
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
¾ tsp cream of tarter
¼ tsp freshly grated nutmeg
2 cups all-purpose flour
Cinnamon Sugar for coating (about 1/3 cup)
Preheat oven to 350F.
Butter a 9 by 13-inch pan. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar and move pan around to make sure that the bottom and sides are coated. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, and cream of tarter.
Using an stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars. Beat for three minutes. Scrape down the bowl.
Add the Mascarpone cheese and beat until fully incorporated.
Add eggs, one at a time, scraping down the bowl after each addition.
Add the vanilla and beat for another 30 seconds.
On low speed add the sifted flour mixture. Mix until fully incorporated.
Spread mixture evenly into prepared pan. This will be hard as it is a thick batter. I found it easiest to just wet my hands a little and press the batter into the pan. Then even it out afterwards with a spatula.
Sprinkle more cinnamon sugar on top of the batter.
Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Cut into squares and serve. I like mine warm with ice cream.
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February 5th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
i made your refund muffins a while ago and they were really good. can’t wait to try these. i don’t know who i would want to play me in a movie either. maybe cameron diaz but that choice is all wrong.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
These look absolutely divine!
February 5th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Oooo…when I saw that first picture I knew this had to be a snickerdoodle blondie! Soooo yummy looking. I think I’d go with Anne Hathaway in a movie about me…though more in her Princess Diary look than Bride Wars.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Yep, this is brilliant. Another thing makes it to my “to bake” list, which is like 700 strong (500 from your site probably).
February 5th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Oh my God – these look sinful! I’ll be bookmarking this recipe for sure.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Oh my, snickerdoodles are my favorite! I can’t wait to try these,
February 5th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
WOW! How cool you have snickerdoodle blondie recipe & Julia from a dozen flours has one on hers. I’ve made hers MANY times in the past 6 months or so. Everyone loves ‘em. I’m slightly famous amongst my children’s friends & their teachers for them. I can’t wait to give your version a try! Thanks for sharing the recipe! I’m printing it out!
~ingrid
February 5th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
This looks amazing. I have to make it.
Also, I went to Bakespace for the first time and there you are with your peanut butter cup cake, right on the front page! You rule.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
Yummmmmmm awesome creation. I’ll be trying these! I wonder if you can taste the mascarpone cheese at all? I’m sure it adds something yummy.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Oh Dear, I cannot even think of anybody who would want to play my “crazy” life, people get tired and exhausted just watching me overload my days…. I love the Blondies….yum!
February 5th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Now, these look dangerous. I’d be afraid that I would eat the whole pan if I made these!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Snickerdoodles are famous in my family. My brother, who is not a dessert eater, can polish off a whole batch with no problem. Since I don’t love making individually shaped cookies, this is a great solution, thanks!
February 6th, 2009 at 12:21 am
I have just made some blondies which were the first time for me but they were more cakey these look so good I have to try these. I think you would be more famous than kate Winslet if they made a movie about you especially if they film you when cleaning the bathroom
Thanks for sharing this yummy desset
February 6th, 2009 at 1:54 am
I’m a fan of the snickerdoodle and this looks so gooey and yum!
February 6th, 2009 at 2:29 am
So decadent Snickerdoodles and icecream …although my daughter could be played by Scarlet Johanssen I have to be played by Phoebe from Friends…Lisa Kudrow..I am told we look alike:D
February 6th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Snickerdoodle blondies? They look ab fab!
I think Dawn French should play the starring role in the award winning comedy of my life!
February 6th, 2009 at 3:55 am
ummm! i am sitting at home with flu and a runny nose – I am wishing that plate was in my reach because I know this will make me feel better!
February 6th, 2009 at 4:31 am
How yummy!!! Two fabulous desserts in one!
February 6th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Oh those blondies look good. Have no idea who would play me in a movie…..I like Angelina Jolie but we don’t look alike at all!!!!
February 6th, 2009 at 6:10 am
BLONDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 6th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Wow these look delicious! I wonder if I could make a pan tomorrow and then promptly leave town without them? It may be a plan!
I think Kristi Alley could play me. She’s not getting many good movie rolls anyway, and if she’s in one of her fatter stages all the better!
February 6th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Holy crap!!!! This is just the type of thing I’ve been craving! I’ve got to make some of these… diet be damned!
Looks incredible!
February 6th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Oh, my goodness! The picture with the ice cream = instant craving. I have to try to make these gluten free!
February 6th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Oh man, you are such a diet buster! These look amazing, especially with the ice cream!
February 6th, 2009 at 9:27 am
This is awesome – the joy of snickerdoodles in bar form a la mode!
February 6th, 2009 at 9:42 am
What a great transformation of an old favorite!! I love cookies that can be made into bars!!
February 6th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Wow! You’ve just taken two of my favorite desserts and – bam – combined them into one AMAZING looking dessert. I need these right now. Oh man, the snickerdoodle blondies look absolutely amazing. I need to stop myself from drooling over the pictures now.
February 6th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Snickerdoodle blondies sound amazing! And with the ice cream, wow!
February 6th, 2009 at 10:20 am
how freakin amazing is that? I love snickerdoodles and those blondies look amazing. I can’t wait to try these and will be adding lots of nutmeg and cinnamon. I wonder if you can sub some of the mascarpone and egg for eggnog??
-kristen
February 6th, 2009 at 10:43 am
This looks so good! I have a question though–what’s the Mascarpone cheese do? Like in regular snickerdoodles, you don’t need that ingredient. I’m just curious. I want to make this–your pictures are making me hungry.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:15 am
These really sound great! I am more of a chocolate chip girl but I have a friend who adores snickerdoodles and if he sees this, I will surely be making them.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
You wish you’d never made it… I wish I’d never seen it…. Oh I’m so making this soon! ;P
February 6th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Oh god, I’ve been tagged so many times on Facebook for that 25 things about me meme, or whatever it is… I don’t even want to think about it! I’d much rather make blondies like these- They sound fantastic!
February 6th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I’m drinking my snickerdoodle hot chocolate right now and thinking about how well it would go with those blondies.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
With ice cream on top!? These blondies look so so good! Who would play me in a movie!? That’s one heck of a hard question? Why do people do that to themselves? Is it some sort of wish fulfillment thing? I dunno. Too hard a question for my brains right now.
February 6th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
These look awesome…esp with that ice cream!
February 6th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
These look really good. I wish I had a piece right now.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
The Mascarpone cheese is used for texture. So that these are chewy like Blondies are. If you make them like the cookies then all you will have is bar cookies.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
yum…snickerdoodle anything is a good thing in my book. i am with you on eating the whole pan.
February 6th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Well on a looks basis I get told I look like Natalie Portman alot, both short, petite, same hair/eye color.
However I guess it would be Tina Fey in that I am somewhat of a “Liz Lemon” I am a dork, always have sarcastic coments, love food, and am a class clown type. However I am married.
February 6th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Can’t think why anyone would want to make a movie of my life, so I guess I’m stuck playing myself. Snickerdoodle blondies are a fabulous idea! You are a dessert genius.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
WOW these look absolutely amazing, thanks for another yummy-looking recipe. I’ve made several of your goodies and they’ve all worked out great. I can’t wait to try these!!
Just wanted to say thanks for creating such a fun, lively and yummy blog!
February 6th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
It’s clear that these are the equal of, if not better than, the refund muffins. You devil, you!
February 7th, 2009 at 1:37 am
Holy cow, Gracie.. blondies are my favorite.. give me a brownie and a blondie and I’ll choose the blondie every time. Give me a chocolate chip cookie and a snickerdoodle and I’ll choose the snickerdoodle every time.
Have I told you lately how much I heart you?
xoxoxoxooxoxoxox
February 7th, 2009 at 3:59 am
LOL – I think if it is a movie about your life, you can choose whoever you want to be you. I reckon in the looks department, I’d get Megan Followes to play me.
These blondies are definitely Oscar-worthy – they’d be going straight down my throat as well.
February 7th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Take a look at those…mmmmmmm. Forget which star; you play youself!! These are outrageous!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:31 am
You’ve made a lot of things over the last couple of years that I would label “pure genius” but this seriously goes to a whole new level!
I would let Ali Larter play me… but she’d have to gain 30 lbs and work on her Texas accent – it wasn’t believable in Friday Night Lights and that just won’t cut it!
February 7th, 2009 at 7:44 am
i pick natalie portman. and a tray of these, with cinnamon ice cream. awesome bars.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I think if they made a movie of my life, it would be canceled half way through do to lack of a plot lol. I’m such a boring person.
I love Snickerdoodles. Even better is when they are topped with Ice-cream.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Oh, man that looks SO GOOD.
I’d love Catherine Zeta Jones to play me. IN MY DREAMS. But still, a girl CAN dream, right?
February 7th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Ooh! I’ve made Snickerdoodle Bars before, but never with mascarpone! *bookmarks*
February 7th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Your posts are always so fun to read
My only saving grace in this would be that a lot of great actresses are the same wee size as I am … but looks wise, not so much. Though, I bet those actresses are pretty darn quirky.
Those blondies look awesome … thankfully for my waistline, they look far too difficult to make dairy-free, so I have an out!
February 7th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
everytime I turn around there is a new way to use snickerdoodles…a blondie is something I never would have thought of
February 7th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
OMG! Those looks porntastalicious! I think that I could make them only if I was immediately going to take them somewhere otherwise I would eat all of them too. *drools and saves off recipe for later, nefarious purposes*
February 8th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Snickerdoodles used to be my favorite cookies to make until I moved to the mountains where elevation has plagued my cookie-baking. Blondies don’t seem to pose nearly as much trouble and I love how you combined the two! I’ll have to try it out.
February 8th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
See, I knew I should skip this one! Those look super good . . . now if only you’d thought to call me, I could have helped you with half the pan and saved you half the calories. Now I’ll be stuck with the whole pan too.
February 8th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Looks great – I’ll have to try this one out. What program did you use to match your face with Hayden?
February 9th, 2009 at 9:49 am
That is a tricky question, Pea – I would love it to be Kate Winslet, too (love her), but no way… It would have to be someone loaded with freckles. Any hints?
I think that Renée looked prettier with the pounds she added for Bridget Jones.
I love anything snickerdoodles – will be trying this one here!
February 9th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Those look good! I like the sound of serving them with ice cream.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I made these this weekend and they were absolutely amazing. perfect texture and flavor!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I love this. It’s my favorite cookie and in a bar form this looks even better.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
You know I’m going to have to put the whole pan of these I make into my stomach too! Such an enabler…
February 10th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I brought a pan of these into work with me and they were gone in an hour. luckily I made sure my bosses got first pick, otherwise I never hear the end of it if they wait too long and miss out.
February 15th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Jeff made these for us last tonight to celebrate our V-day at home. It was really good.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I made these yesterday and they are SOOOO good! I could totally eat the whole pan by myself but I won’t do that…I’d be a bad example to my patients if I did.
February 17th, 2009 at 5:59 am
Oh my gawd!!! I made these last Friady and they are fabulous. I wish it was all edges and that part is the best. Of course no one is forcing me to eat the middle and it is mostly gone too. Even hubs liked them and he is such a Brownie fanatic that I wasnt sure he would. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe. This is a keeper.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
I just made a dairy free version of these and my family absolutely loved them!
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Oh my goodness – these are fantastic! I am a huge blondie fan and these will be entering my rotation. Make sure that you put plenty of cinnamon brown sugar on both the pan and the top – it’s puts these blondies over the top!
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
My kids loved these, but next time I think I will not add the nutmeg.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Ooh, these look dangerous!
June 21st, 2009 at 7:21 am
I made these recently and they didn’t last very long in our house, will definately be making them again!
June 24th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
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September 25th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
I made these and they are delish!! Thanks! The whole fam loves them; they’re dangerous.