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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I’m shocked that any of the batter actually made it into the oven just now! SO GOOD. I can’t wait for them to come out. I hope no one else in the house thinks they’re getting any 😀
What a nice surprise this morning seeing you right on the front cover of my favorite section of our newspaper, BAYflavor in the Press-Register (Mobile)… nice article by Pat Ammons Newcomb and with this recipe too… congratulations on your cookbook and I hope you do well over at Page & Palette in Fairhope… now, don’t get lost in all the hoopla – we love ya just the way you are…..
These look so good! I’m trying to cut back on the amount of sweet things I make (sadly!) and have been looking forward to making a special dessert for Halloween. I may have to make this! I’ll bet a little cinnamon would make them even better, like Oatmeal Scotchie cookies. I actually even found Pioneer baking mix at the WalMart here in Fairbanks, Alaska. So far I’ve only used it to make biscuits, but the biscuits turned out fine (though nothing like homemade). Also I was going to comment on the candy corn/caramel corn thing but Mal beat me to it 😀 For a second there I was wondering if you guys called candy corn “caramel corn” down in the south but then found where you wrote “candy corn” in other parts of the recipe.
I think you mean candy corn instead of caramel corn in the blog post? I was really confused by the pictures vs. the blog until I read the actual recipe below it, ahaha.
In the oven as I type…I make a lot of goodies for my hubby who’s an OTR driver. He appreciates your recipes, Christy!! To all those who’ve asked, baking mix is baking mix..I always buy the Jiffy brand for the price.
Christy, you’ve got 2 very special children. Hug them every day, tell em you love them every day,. Give them a hug from me!
Oh MY…these might be my new favorite recipe!!
I just made these! Oh my, the house smells wonderful! I tasted a tiny corner and they are delicious! I used fall m &m’s and sprinkles. I also used bisquick with excellent results!