DU Bakers: What is Your Favorite Bar Cookie Recipe?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

I am making my grandmother's Caramel Licks Recipe. I vary it because the original recipe calls for a Pillsbury Cake Mix-which is sooo sweet-and replace it with an Oetker cake mix from Whole Foods. I also add 1 cup of dried cranberries in with the nuts.

Here it is:

1 Pkg. White Cake Mix
1 cup of nuts
1/2 cup Crisco
2 eggs
1 cup caramel topping (I use Smucker's)
2 Tablespoons Water

Preheat oven to 325F. Combine all ingredients in the hot water. Pour into greased 13x9 pan. Bake for 30-40 minutes. Cool then frost.

Frosting:
2 cups confectioners sugar
1/3 c. butter
3 Tablespoons caramel topping
2 Tablespoons milk

[joeybee12]

1. Yummy!

My favorite is the Magic Bars that you make with coconut, choclate chips and sweetened condensed milk. I think they got the name magic because they're so damn easy to make!

[eyesroll]

2. I don't do bars very often, but I like this brownie recipe:

2 squares unsweetened chocolate
1 c. canola oil
2 c. white sugar
3 eggs
1.5 c. flour
1 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
1 c. chocolate chips

* Melt chocolate. Blend into the oil. Let cool, then mix in the sugar and eggs until well combined.
* Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together, then combine with the wet ingredients. Fold in the chocolate chips. (You can add nuts, or peanut butter chips, if you want. I don't want.)
* Turn into a greased and floured 9x13" pan (no other, brownies do not bake
Bake at 350 F, 30 minutes. Cool, sprinkle with powdered sugar or frost if you want, cut, serve.