Caramel Bars
Recipe: #3365
December 06, 2011
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Oats, Baby Shower, Christmas, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day Potluck, Oven Bake, Bars, more
"Found this in my "Favorite" paper file box, this goes back years"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (29.6 g)
- Calories 123.3
- Total Fat - 5.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 1 g
- Cholesterol - 0.8 mg
- Sodium - 95.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 17.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.4 g
- Sugars - 3.5 g
- Protein - 2.2 g
- Calcium - 34.3 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.1 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
Step 2
Heat the caramels over low heat with cream or milk and 1/4 cup butter until the caramels are melted stirring constantly; set aside.
Step 3
In a bowl mix 3/4 cup soft butter with flour, baking soda, oatmeal, brown sugar, and salt; tranfer 3/4 of the oat mixture into baking dish (reserve the rest to sprinkle on later). Bake for 10 minutes.
Step 4
Remove from oven pour the warm melted caramel mixture over the baked base then sprinkle the milk chocolate chips over the caramel. Sprinkle remaining base crumb mixture over top. Return to oven for another 15 minutes --- DO NOT overbake!
Tips
No special items needed.