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This story goes something like this:
Girl accepts dinner invitation. Girl makes last minute decision to whip up a double batch of her cousin’s Butterscotch Brownies to take to dinner, thinking there will be plenty leftover. Girl takes the whole tray to dinner and returns home with about 1/3 of the bars left.
Then the kids, the husband and the girl herself eat … um, many. Girl realizes she still needs to photograph said brownies, and finds the one and only perfect one left. It’s an edge piece, which a tempting ridge around one side. Bars are gone by the end of the day — about 48 hours after they were made.
True story.
When I decided to make this recipe out of the family cookbook (yes, our family has our own private cookbook), I did so because it’s a recipe I’ve had earmarked for a long, long time. But while I’ve wanted to try it, I wasn’t sure anyone else would enjoy it as much. Ha! I should have known better.
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Of course, it was only later that I reread the recipe and realized that I had taken some liberties that transformed the Butterscotch Brownies into Butterscotch Chocolate Cookie Bars. But whatever we call them, this happy accident yielded a cookie bar that everyone loved enough to go back for seconds.
These bars are irresistibly buttery and chocolatey — a combination that you can’t go wrong with. See, what happens when you make these is the chocolate settles on the bottom creating a dual-layered bar. While the bottom is all rich chocolate, the top is a buttery, sweet, salt-infused butterscotch layer. Amazing.
A friend, who visited this weekend, tried one of the few leftover bars and said they were somewhere between a blondie and a cookie bar — and really good. Try them.
Also, this is a perfect recipe to make with children. There are so many kid-friendly steps, especially since it’s all hand stirred and whatnot. Will and Paige practically did all the making with me just supervising and measuring. It’s that simple and easy.
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Marianne's Butterscotch Chocolate Bars
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adapted from a family recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan with butter. Set aside.
- Melt the butter. Then, transfer to a large mixing bowl. Stir in the light brown sugar until well blended. Let cool slightly and then stir in the eggs. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. Add to the wet ingredients and stir well to combine. Add the vanilla and chocolate chips. Stir.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Spread out into one even layer.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out cleanly. Let cool and then cut into squares.
- Enjoy!
Maureen
Thursday 8th of March 2012
I make a similar bar that I love but I'm going to try yours because they look better than mine :)
sarah
Saturday 10th of March 2012
Let me know how you like it! I made these for a school fundraiser yesterday (a half-batch) and was so sad to give them all away (but I hope they went like hotcakes).
Yoko
Wednesday 7th of March 2012
Definetly adding these to my recipie book..mmm
Kate
Wednesday 7th of March 2012
I'm a sucker for butterscotch