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Ingredients
- 2 1/8 C flour
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 12 T butter (1 1/2 sticks)
- 1 C brown sugar
- 1/2 C white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 t vanilla
- 2 C chocolate chips (I used semi sweet, buy you can use what ever suits your fancy)
Instructions
1. Melt your butter in the microwave. Add the brown sugar, white sugar, egg, egg yolk, and vanilla to the butter. Whisk it around until well combines.
2. In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients.
3. Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredient and stir just until combines.
4. Fold in your chocolate chips.
5. Line a 9x13 pan with tin foil. Spray it down with some cooking spray and press your cookie dough into the pan. The tin foil is going to make it super easy to pull these bars out of the pan.
6. Bake at 325 for 24-28 minutes.
7. Let your pan cool on a wire rack for a bit. I didn't let mine get all the way cool before I cut them, and it worked out fine. I like to eat my cookies warm.
8. Pull the tin foil out of the pan and on to a cutting board. Cut the bars as desired. ENJOY!
Recipe from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe
Made the house smell like Christmas!! I used Party mints (aka: Misty mints) in place of the chocolate chips, and results were EXCEPTIONAL!! I baked them for the minimum recommended time, which resulted in a good consistency in the middle, but the edges were hard, so I trimmed them away. I think I would bake 2 minutes less next time, but I think my oven runs a bit hot too… I have to check that out. Over all… I recommend that you MAKE THESE!!!
You are my go-to source for inspiration, and you never disappoint. I made these for a casual office super bowl party and OMG, these were the hit of the party! Simply scrumptious!
These sound so good. I’m wondering though if I were to double the recipe, what size pan would I use?
Christine,
I have doubled the recipe before using a large jelly roll (cookie sheet) pan. Mine is about 17×13. Good luck! Hope you love them.
~Jamie
just have to say I tried this recipe and it is fabulous! Instead of making cookies individually this will be my go to recipe!
Gah! I made these the other day….talk about stupidity on my part. When it came to the butter, I read the recipe wrong and thought it said 1 1/2 cups (I thought wow, that is a lot of butter but did it anyway). Ended up with REAL butter bars (amazingly enough the kids ate the whole pan anyway). But, I was coming back here to see if I could figure out if I could cut the butter w/o damaging the recipe next time…only to find out that it was 1 1/2 STICKS of butter. BIG difference.
I must remember next time:
12 TBS butter = 3/4 cup butter = 1 1/2 STICKS of butter
LOL
I made these tonight and they are DELICIOUS! Definitely the best chocolate chip cookie bars we have ever had. It’s already been added to my permanent recipe file. Thanks so much for sharing !!
I love this recipe, but I have a problem. Every time I bake them per directions at 325 degrees, they end up being too gooey, and I have to up the temp and cook longer. Is this a misprint? Should it be 350 or 375 instead?
Hi Kay,
You may be at a different elevation than I am, requiring a slightly different baking temp and duration. Also, perhaps our ovens don’t bake exactly the same. Do what ever works best for you. Good luck! Hope they turn out better next time.
~Jamie
A friend made these and posted pics of her family making them. I decided to make them today. Can I just say these are DEADLY. The butter and sugar mixture was amazing (almost didn’t make the bars because I wanted to eat that instead). The finished product? Happy sounds coming from every member of our family. Thanks for posting this great recipe!
I made these tonight for my husband & they are AMAZING! Thanks for sharing ๐
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