Saturday, March 31, 2012

Decadent bars searching for a name...

Hard to believe these bar cookies don't have a name...partly because I just made them up. They are a combination of two different bar cookies and the marriage worked very well ;-)

Sooo, if you can come up with a very clever name and I use it, I may just make you a batch of them !!

They are very gooey and dense, chewy and rich, packed with coconut, walnuts and chocolate chips.

Ingredients
The Crust:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup oat bran or rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1/2  tsp. salt

The Filling:
2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1  cup shredded coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chocolate chips
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 Tbsp. flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

1) Preheat oven to 350 F.
2) Mix together all the crust ingredients thoroughly and press into 9 X 13 inch baking pan.
3) Bake for 10 minutes, remove from oven.
4) In a mixing bowl combine the eggs, brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk, flour, baking powder, and vanilla, beat together.
5) Stir in the nuts, coconut, and chocolate chips and pour onto warm crust.

6) Bake for 25 minutes.
7) Here comes the hard part, you really should allow them to cool before you cut them into squares.
Didn't happen for this batch. They are sticky and very gooey if you try to cut them too soon Bob didn't care he wanted to sample them warm ;-)
They store well in the fridge or even in the freezer, if they last that long.

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