These Kitchen Sink Circus Animal Oreo Blondies have sprinkles, Golden Oreos and Circus Animal Cookies that will bring a smile to everyone.
Oprah finally lost me this year.
I didn’t want to lose her, I liked her, but then she went and said this.
“Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be”- Oprah
She said that in her commercial for Weight Watchers, a company that she now owns 10% of.
Now, I am not anti-WW, I worked for them for goodness sake and I wouldn’t work for a company I didn’t believe in…but to imply that I’m not the woman I am because I’m packing an extra 20 pounds is ridiculous.
Oprah has gone up and down the scale too many times to count, just like so many of us.
I mean Google Oprah weight loss and after that comes 2011, 2012, 2013, etc.
Am I to believe that the only time Oprah was her authentic self was when she was thinner?
All her good ideas only came when she was a single digit size?
Losing weight can bring people out of their shells and give them the confidence they did not have before…but always should have.
It’s always there. You don’t have to lose 20 pounds for you to be the woman you know you can be.
And what about men?
Do they always get to be the men they know they can be…at any size?
It’s the beginning of the year (although geez, we are in the middle of February already) so most of us are on diets.
Even I did Dietbet this January…though not for the reason most people think. 🙂
I was low on funds but always like to donate to my favorite charity, Old Dog Haven and so I figured that I could make some money for them.
I did.
It was odd.
Odd because I stepped on the scale for the first time in almost three years.
I actually weighed less than I thought.
Lost my 4% of my body weight…plus a little more.
At the end of the month, I won my money and put my scale away with no real need to get it out anytime soon.
I can assure you I am the same person I was when I stepped on that scale the first and last time.
With Valentine’s this Sunday I, of course, want to remind you that thin, fat, overweight, athletic, whatever body type you are…embrace it.
Work on it if you want…but embrace where you are now.
There is already a rock star in you and she/he is not waiting for you to lose weight to come out.
You know what else to embrace?
Sprinkles.
And your favorite store bought cookies.
So I still have tons of sprinkles left over from last year, I did not go through them all.
Once again I’m into throwing them into any recipe I can make. As well as Golden Oreos and Circus Animal cookies pretty much make me happy and are my favorite store bought cookies.
So why not make a blondie that uses all three?
A Kitchen Sink Circus Animal Oreo Blondies.
P.S. It’s a great day to buy my cookbook Holy Sweet!
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Kitchen Sink Circus Animal Oreo Blondies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 cups Golden Oreos, divided
- 2 cups Circus Animal Cookies, divided
- 1 cup Sprinkles, divided
Instructions
- Prepare a 9-x-13-inch pan with baking spray.
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Using a stand mixer with a paddle attachment cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Add the eggs one at a time, and scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl after each addition.
- Add vanilla extract and beat for another 30 seconds.
- Add the flour and salt and mix on low speed just until the dough starts to come together.
- Take 1 ½ cups of the Circus Cookies and crush them.
- Take 1 ½ cups Golden Oreos and crush them.
- Add them to the mixer with it on slow speed.
- Add ½ cup sprinkles to the batter.
- Mix until the ingredients are fully combined.
- Spread evenly into prepared pan, smooth with a spatula.
- Add the remaining Circus Animals, Oreos, and sprinkles …but strategically place them where you would like.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted near the center comes out clean.Let cool on wire rack.
- Cut into squares and serve.
Rhonda says
These will make a great birthday treat for my daughter on Monday (every birthday need sprinkles-heck every DAY could use them!) thanks! I love your thoughts about the scale. I haven’t used one personally for over a year and I don’t think I can be any better with it 😉
Ashley says
Thank you for this post. Not just because the recipe sounds like awesome fun, but just in general.
I’ve struggled with my weight for a long time. I’ve done WW, I’ve darn near starved myself, I’ve done a lot to lose weight and it never stuck because I was always doing it for someone else. A significant other who told me I was too much for them to want, a friend who helpfully remarked I’d look better if I lost a bit, you know that kind of thing.
Now, I do what I do for me. It’s slower, it takes forever, but I’m doing it my way for myself.
Thank you for being awesome and for sharing your thoughts 🙂
Erin M. says
That is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard anyone say…especially from a woman who is looked up to by so many other women in the world. How unfortunate that she is just feeding the vicious cycle of women not feeling that they are good enough. Anyway, these bars look awesome and my nephews would love them!
Kristen says
Ugh – oh Oprah. Man…if she thinks it takes skinny to be successful and a true woman, what has she been the past 30 years? Not a full woman? I’d hate to see Oprah skinny then – she’d rule the world!
Alex G says
I love this paragraph: “With Valentine’s this Sunday I, of course, want to remind you that thin, fat, overweight, athletic, whatever body type you are…embrace it. Work on it if you want…but embrace where you are now. There is already a rock star in you and she/he is not waiting for you to lose weight to come out.”
Why is that even though I find it so incredibly true, it is still an ongoing struggle? Wouldn’t it be amazing if once we came to the conclusion above, we would automatically stop hating ourselves forever?! And would always walk around confidently, not burdened down by the vast myriad of issues that plague people with low self-esteem and self-worth.
It’s funny, I did come to this conclusion for myself a number of years ago, but still find that I need to be reminded of it periodically and wonder if that is just how it’s going to be for life.
Peabody says
@Alex G- I think it is a life long struggle for everyone, even those of us that have good self esteem. I’m super sick this week and I look scary…it’s easy to get down on myself when I look like I do right now. 🙂
Stacy | Wicked Good Kitchen says
P-bods, you ROCK. I mean it, girl. I couldn’t agree with you more…with your dislike for the Detroit Red Wings aside. (LOL!) Love you, girl. Keep up the great work with your writing and recipes for wicked treats. Happy Valentine’s Day to both you and MDP! xo
annie says
I get the Oprah thing. When celebrities I think are cool say something that goes against my personal philosophies, it’s really hard for me to like them again. Or watch them in anything, or listen to their music or whatever. A bit dramatic, but so what.
It’s been too long since I’ve had sugar-high inducing circus animals. why is that! what’s wrong with me? I need more sprinkles in my life, clearly.
Turner says
Well said! And thank you for saying it.
Bobbi from Bobbi's Kozy Kitchen says
Oh girl! You are on my wavelength with this post. I have had major self esteem issues my whole life due to my weight and it drives me crazy that people think that you can’t be happy if you don’t have the perfect body. AND circus animals are my FAVE cookie!! I have GOT to make these blondies ASAP!
Alex G says
Hahaha, well the sexy sick look is a hard feat to accomplish for sure. I hope you feel better soon!!!
Cakespy says
SO. MUCH. YES. UNICORN APPROVED. THUMBS UP WAY UP.
snookydoodle says
your words helped me open my mind and try to think different than, when i m thin or if i were thin. just stop and live the moment whatever shape i m in. Nice blondies look delicious . will try them soon too 🙂