Yes this recipe name is a mouth full and yes the bars are a yummy mouthful!
These were really good and a hit with everyone.
Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Toffee Bars
(from http://www.sisterscafe.com/)
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temp
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 1/2 cups flour (start with 1 1/4 cup maybe, thought I might have had too much flour)
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 cups chocolate pieces
- 1 cup toffee baking pieces
Heat oven to 350. Line a 9 x 13 pan with foil so that the ends extend over the edge of the pan. Spray your foil. This makes clean up easy and makes cutting them into bars so much easier too!
In your mixer, beat the butter, peanut butter, sugar and egg yolk. Beat until smooth and creamy, about 2 minutes making sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl as you go.
Add the flour (make sure not to add to much!), oats, and salt and beat on low speed until ingredients are just blended, about 30 seconds or so.
Press this mixture evenly in your foil covered 9 x 13 pan. Bake the crust until golden brown, 15-20 minutes. Be careful not to overbake. This part was a little hard to tell because my mixture was a light brown color to start with because of the peanut butter. Just watch closely!
Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle the chocolate chips evenly across your crust. Return the pan to the oven for 1 minute to start melting the chocolate. Take out of the oven and use an offset spatula and smooth out the chocolate and spread evenly.
Sprinkle the toffee chips over the chocolate. Gently press the toffee pieces into the chocolate so they wont fall off! I was a little too gentle and my bars were a little messy with toffee bits falling off!
Set the pan on a wire rack to cool and set up for about 2 hours. I ended up putting my in the refrigerator after a while to help set the chocolate up.
Use your foil edges to lift the bars out of the pan and cut into squares. For any leftovers, store in a container in the refrigerator!
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