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August 2, 2011
Oatmeal Caramel Bars
Keepsake Cookies
Prep time:
23 minutesbaking time:
15 minutes“Our great-grandmother, who bought oats in big 25-pound bags, passed down a lot of oatmeal cookie recipes.”
Ingredients
Serves 32
- 2 cups rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
- 40 caramels
- 5 tablespoons milk
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease a 13 3 9-inch baking pan.
2
Combine oats, flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt in a large bowl and mix well. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Press half the oat mixture on the bottom of the prepared baking pan, reserving remaining oat mixture. Bake for 10 minutes.
3
Sprinkle chocolate chips over the hot crust. Let stand until chocolate melts. Spread the melted chocolate evenly over the crust.
4
Combine caramels and milk in a double boiler. Cook over high heat, stirring frequently, until caramels melt. Drizzle over chocolate layer in baking pan.
5
Sprinkle reserved oat mixture over caramel mixture. Bake for 15 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Cut into bars.
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Grandma's Secret Trick
Grandma's Secret Trick
Like other very moist cookies, these keep best when not stacked on top of each other. So Grandma cut these cookies into bars but kept them in the pan. If she planned to give them as a gift, she arranged them on a plate rather than stacking them in a cookie tin.
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