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    Home » Vegan Baking and Sweets » Vegan Cakes and Pies

    Chocolate Chip Pear Blondies or Mini-Loaves

    Published: Dec 7, 2012 · Updated: Mar 4, 2021 · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Rich with chocolate chips and pears, this melt-in-your-mouth vegan treat is delicious as a dessert or tea bread. They're especially good with tea as a cool-weather dessert. Easy enough as an everyday dessert, yummy enough for holiday fare (especially around the winter holidays), this might just become your go-to sweet bread.

    Makes: 9 to 12 squares, or 3 mini-loaves

    • 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
    • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
    • ⅓ cup natural granulated sugar
    • 1 cup applesauce
    • 2 tablespoons safflower or other neutral vegetable oil
    • 2 tablespoons unsweetened nondairy milk, or as needed
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 1 ripe pear, any variety, peeled, cored, and cut into ¼-inch dice
    • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
    • ¼ cup finely chopped walnuts or pecans

    Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

    In a mixing bowl, combine the first  5 (dry) ingredients.

    Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the applesauce, oil, and nondairy milk. Stir together; add additional nondairy milk if needed for the wet and dry ingredients to blend, but don't overdo it — this should be a slightly stiff batter.

    Stir in the diced pear and chocolate chips, then pour the batter into a lightly oiled 9- inch square pan, or three mini-loaf pans. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the top is golden and a knife inserted in the center tests clean.

    Allow to cool to room temperature before cutting into squares, wedges, or slices to serve.

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    1. Lau says

      December 28, 2011 at 2:32 pm

      Hi!! Thank you! I really liked them (Chocolate Chip Pear Blondies), especially when they were still warm 🙂

    2. Nava says

      December 29, 2011 at 3:46 pm

      Glad you enjoyed these, Lau!

    3. Kay says

      February 05, 2014 at 3:33 pm

      I have a gluten intolerance is there any other flour I can use to make these?

    4. Nava says

      February 05, 2014 at 3:35 pm

      Kay — I should have put this in the recipe — you can substitute a gluten-free flour blend like Bob's Red Mill in the same quantity for the flour recommended here.

    5. Victoria says

      February 06, 2014 at 12:23 pm

      Can I use bananas instead of pears?

    6. Nava says

      February 06, 2014 at 12:32 pm

      Indeed you can, that would be a very good substitution!

    7. michelle says

      February 27, 2014 at 1:52 pm

      Can I use Sugar in the raw (100% natural turbinado cane sugar) Will that work just as well?

    8. Nava says

      February 27, 2014 at 2:33 pm

      Michelle, yes, that would work.

    9. Ally says

      July 22, 2014 at 12:41 am

      Hi, l have been looking up your recipes, especially this recipe catches my eyes 🙂 so wondering what can l use instead of apple sauce? And can l put some peach ?

    10. Nava says

      July 23, 2014 at 12:36 pm

      Hi Ally, you can use yogurt, preferably non-dairy. Or some additional oil, like safflower, though that's the very reason I use applesauce, as it's a good fat substitute! And yes, peach would be a lovely substitute for pear during the summer months.

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