Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars April 8, 2012

I always love finding new recipes of snacks that I can make at home. Obviously, I have a sweet tooth, so I’m a fan of snacks that are at least somewhat sweet. I promise I’ll be posting some snacks that I make for Sean soon too, they are super healthy!

This recipe, however, is super yummy and may be a little less healthy than snacks I’m making should be. It’s still a snack that keeps me from buying other foods. Take a look…

Check out Cookie Madness for this recipe! She says the egg is optional but I used it. If you try this recipe without the egg, please let me know how it turns out for you!! Also, I did use quick oats as suggested, but you can’t really tell there are oats in this bar. When I make them again I will use rolled oats. I like the texture of oats, but if you don’t, definitely use quick oats.

As a tip, if you live in Harrisonburg, buy your oats at Sharp Shopper! Super cheap and we buy organic.

Please let me know if you try to make this. It’s definitely a crowd-pleaser. I try out recipes on my co-workers and they both asked how to make it.

Until next time when I share a healthy snack recipe!

Chocolate Chip Shortbread August 4, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010
National Chocolate Chip Day!

Chocolate Chip Shortbread Squares

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 12 ounce bag semi-sweet chocolate mini morsels, divided

Directions

Preheat oven to 350º.

In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in the egg and the vanilla. Gradually add in the flour and beat well after each addition. Stir in 1 cup of the mini chocolate morsels.

Press this mixture onto the bottom of an ungreased 9×13 baking pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until top lightly browned. Immediately sprinkle with the rest of the mini chocolate morsels left in the bag. Let stand for 5 minutes or so until the morsels are shiny then spread evenly covering the entire top of the shortbread.

Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. Cut into squares.

Recipe From A Recipe A Day

REVIEW: This was super easy to make! My biggest suggestion is to use a stand mixer. My hand mixer did the job but struggled while adding flour. I used a 9 x 13 baking sheet and not a baking pan, but I don’t think it really matters too much. The bars came out great! They were so easy to cut through and super easy to melt the chocolate on and spread it around. (I did put it back in the OFF oven just to get the chocolate chips to melt quicker and more evenly) And of course taste… I think they are great! Sean likes them too. They are not too sweet but would satisfy a sweet tooth while not turning off someone who doesn’t like sweets (if there are people like that!).

As always, if you try it, let me know what you think!