Good Bars
Soft, chewy, dreamy blend of oatmeal and chocolate in a bar cookie
Equipment
- 1 11x17 pan NOT 9x13!
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 3 cups oats old-fashioned
- 2 ½ cups whole wheat flour can use all purpose flour or white whole wheat
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- **chopped nuts optional**
Microwave on high, 2 minutes. Then stir until blended and pour over crust in pan:
- 12 oz chocolate chips
- 1 can Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk
- 2 TBS butter
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together. I use my hands, it's messy, but very effective.
- Pat 2/3 mixture into 11x17 (NOT 9x13) pan. (Wet hands if it sticks too much).
- Stir microwaved chocolate mixture until blended and pour over crust in pan.
- Evenly distribute remaining 1/3 oat mixture over chocolate mixture and lightly press it all down.
- Bake at 350 °F for 20-25 minutes.
- Cool pan on wire rack.
- Use pizza cutter to cut into bars.
Notes
Yummy, healthy-ish treat. No one knows these are made with whole wheat! But you can just as easily use all purpose flour (white flour) with just as good a taste, just less healthy. Y'all, it's a treat...healthy is not the goal!