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These Frankenstein Pistachio Blondies are a fun, crowd-pleasing Halloween dessert! Kids and adults alike will love these cute, edible Frankenstein faces!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the past I’ve been a little lukewarm about Halloween, but this year I’m SO into it. I think it’s because my 3-year old is really excited about it, and his enthusiasm is contagious. He likes to playact trick-or-treating, he’s already decorated a scary pumpkin that he named “Aaaaah<\/em>!”, and he has had his costume idea on lock for the last year. (He’s going to be No Noggin, a headless scarecrow from a straight-to-DVD Curious George<\/a> Halloween movie. No one<\/em> is going to know who that poor boy is. And if you’re wondering how I’m going to pull off this costume, well, so am I.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basically, the LaBaus are not only on the Halloween train, we’re sitting up by the conductor making choo-choo hand motions. We are ready.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn’t take me long to figure out which nuts I wanted to use for my Halloween cookies this year. Pistachios are practically the official nut of Halloween—I mean, they’re already green! The color of oozing slime and witches’ skin and Frankenstein’s monster! How could they not already be in every Halloween dessert ever?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, using green pistachios<\/a> as my inspiration, I created these pistachio blondies, decorated to look like Frankenstein faces. (Well, technically they’re his monster’s face, but we’re not going to go all pedantic English major here, are we? I say that with fondness, as a former English major myself. Everyone just calls him Frankenstein. Let’s deal with it and move on.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These blondies are, in a word, Franken-dorable. (Franken-stunning? Too much?) I love how each one has a unique expression, and little differences in the eyebrows, mouths, and scars give them each their own personality. They’re decorated with candy eyes, candy-coated almond noses, mini Rolo neck bolts, and chocolate jimmies<\/a> for hair. A few stripes of red and brown candy coating for the mouth and scars, and you’re done! (If you like these blondies, don’t forget to check out my Frankenstein Cupcakes<\/a>!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To show just how easy it is to make these, I made a quick little photo tutorial for ya:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve been talking a lot about the decorations, but that’s doing a disservice to the blondies themselves, because these are DELICIOUS. If you’re at all a fan of pistachios, these are going to be your new favorite dessert! They’re fudgy and moist, with a big pistachio flavor that comes from homemade pistachio butter being stirred right into the batter. They’re also packed with toasted pistachios and chocolate chunks, because it’s not a decent bar cookie without chocolate being involved somehow, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course the pistachio blondies are also great on their own, sans Frankenstein decorations, and if for some reason you’re a weirdo who doesn’t like pistachios, you can use these same techniques on just about any brownie or bar cookie. Frankenstein faces for all! Now, can someone tell me how to make a No Noggin costume? Because I would pay you many, many pistachio blondies for that information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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