Festive Fall Cookie Bars (one bowl easy!)
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Today I’m bringing you yet another twist on one of my favorite quick and easy bar cookies. If you haven’t made a variation of these yet. I hope you will today! With everything coming up fall, it’s always fun to do some pretty fall baking and these are just the thing we need for a beautiful but low maintenance office or classroom treat. The great thing is that no one will know you took shortcuts when they taste these buttery, butterscotchy, brown sugary good cookie bars!
(Okay, so Brown sugary and butterscotchy weren’t words until now but hey, that just makes us pioneers in advancement of the English language, right?)
You’ll need: your favorite baking mix, a stick of butter or margarine, brown sugar, oats (I use quick or old fashioned depending on what I have on hand), vanilla, an egg, and butterscotch chips.
You’ll also need some candy corn and fall sprinkles if you like.
Place your baking mix, oats, and brown sugar in a bowl.
I prefer dark brown sugar but use whatever I happen to grab. I always whatever I have on hand no matter if the recipe calls for light or dark.
Melt your stick of butter or margarine and pour that into the bowl.
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and add your egg and vanilla in there as well.
Stir that up with a spoon.
See? One bowl wonder and you don’t even need a mixer.
Add in butterscotch chips.
Stir again.
Spray an 8×8 pan with cooking spray.
You can also double this and make a 9×13.
It just takes a few minutes longer to bake so watch it if you do that and remove from oven when lightly browned.
Pour your dough into the pan. It will be kind of crumbly and rough looking.
Pat down with your hand into the pan.
Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes, or until lightly browned.
Sprinkle caramel corn over the top and return to oven for 2-3 minutes to allow caramel corn to soften enough to stick.
Be sure and watch it so the caramel corn doesn’t melt, just sticks to it a bit.
Allow to cool completely and sprinkle with fall sprinkles if you like.
Isn’t that pretty?
Now when you cut them the caramel corn will stay on top and you can serve them up in festive fall style!
Cookies are best made just before your kids come home to surprise them with!
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Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Old Fashioned oats Can use quick
- 1 Cups Brown sugar packed (I use light or dark, whatever I have on hand)
- 2 Cups Baking Mix
- 1 Egg
- 1 Stick butter or margarine melted
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
Instructions
- Combine first five ingredients in large mixing bowl. Mix until well blended. Stir in remaining ingredients. Pat into greased 8×8 pan and bake at 350 for twenty five to thirty minutes. Remove from oven. Sprinkle top with candy corn. Return to oven, watching carefully, for two to three minutes, just to allow the candy corn to warm enough to stick. Watch carefully so candy corn doesn't melt. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely before cutting into bars.
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That looks like a wonderful recipe for cookie bars and a beautiful heartfelt quote from Katy Rose! Thanks for sharing: that quote made my day!
I can’t keep from smiling ever time I think about it! 🙂
Katy’s quote is so adorable!
Would a homemade baking mix work? As long as it’s the kind you use to make biscuits? These bars look so yummy, and very seasonally festive!
Don’t you just love it when those babies say such sweet and funny things, makes getting home at 3 am worth every minute you had to drive. Hope you are enjoying all your blessings!
Another good one to make for church fellowships.
Donna, thank you for rearing a Marine–God bless him, keep him and make His face shine on him as he serves. (and all the military, AND their families–> Amen!)
Thank you Laurie. I am already praying for protection for him and all of his unit, and they haven’t even left yet!
These look great my kids will love them. I can’t wait till you come to Austin for your book tour : )
Just curious about using margarine instead of butter when shipping these overseas. Why do you do that? I have a son who is a Marine and will be deploying in a few months, so I’m trying to learn about these overseas packages.
These look delicious!!!