Souped up turtle bars
12 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ½ | cup | Unsalted butter; softened |
| ½ | cup | Light brown sugar; firmly packed |
| 1 | cup | Flour |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ½ | cup | Pecans; coarsely chopped |
| 1½ | cup | Pecan halves |
| ½ | cup | Brown sugar |
| ⅔ | cup | Light brown sugar |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1½ | cup | Milk chocolate chips |
Directions
Cream butter and ½ cup brown sugar until light and fluffy. Mix together flour and salt and gradually add to butter/sugar mixture. Stir in ½ cup pecans. Pat crust mixture into bottom of 9x13-inch pan. Sprinkle 1½ cups pecan halves on top of crust.
Combine ½ cup brown sugar, ⅔ cup brown sugar in saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly until it reaches a boil. Then boil for one minute, still stirring. Drizzle mixture over pecans.
Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until caramel is bubbling.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over top of bars and spread as they melt. Cool completely before cutting into squares.
Recipe by: Sun Valley Celebrity & Local Heros Cookbook/Cutters of ID Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by SilkyKitty <SilkyKitty@...> on Dec 20, 1997