Yummy Bars are a family favorite
Most of our posts here are not in the cook book, but this is one of those recipes shared both places. Enjoy!
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My husband swears his mother never made cookies for the family cookie jar. Everything she made was promptly packaged up and sent to another family as a care package or for a meeting of some sort that he didn’t get to go to.
She would always cut the bar cookies 1/4 inch around the edges in order to eliminate the edges on the cookies and leave the crusty parts behind. As a result of her practice of discarding the edges, he prefers the crusty edges to this day. I always prefer the cookie dough myself, so he is welcome to the edges. This particular recipe though, he has to share. The small edge left behind when I scoop out all the “presentable cookies” is chewy and very desirable as a long sticky cookie stick.
If you are out to WOW a crowd with an easy giant pan of cookies this recipe will never let you down.
How to make the yummy bars fudge layer
The fudgey layers of chocolate makes this unique chewy center.
While cookies are baking, prepare the fudge layer.
After baking the crust for 10 minutes, quickly laer on the fudge, crumple on the last of the dough you haven’t snitched yet and sprinkle on the extra big chocolate chips!
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- 1½ tsp soda
- 1½ cup room temperature unsalted butter (or margarine)
- 11/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups flour
- ¾ tsp salt (if using salted butter, do dot add this also!)
- 3 cups oatmeal
- 1 bag of chocolate chips, divided
- 1½ tablespoon shortening, or butter,or coconut oil
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- Mix butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add flour and baking soda and mix until crumbly.
- Add Oatmeal.
- Set aside 1 ½ cups of the oatmeal mixture to put on the top of the bars half way through cooking. Pat remainder into large cookie sheet pan. Bake at 350 for 10 min.
- While they bake prepare chocolate layer:
- Chocolate layer: combine shortening, one half bag (12 oz) of chocolate chips, and 1 can sweetened condensed milk in a heat safe microwaveable bowl. heat for one minute or until just melted and combined.
- When cookies have baked for the first ten minutes, open oven, and remove pan briefly (you're going to put it right back in in just a minute). Drizzle chocolate mixture over crust, gently spread over the whole top, then sprinkle remaining oatmeal crumb mixture over the top. Finally, sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips (about 1 cup).
- Bake another 15 min. or until top is golden brown. Cut into squares to serve.
