Delicious Chip Bars are a base of brown sugar and buttery goodness with a mixture of chips thrown into the mix that is baked to a soft and chewy sensation.
I call this chip bars because you decide what flavor of chip you would like to add in the recipe. Milk or dark chocolate, white chocolate or butterscotch are favorites of mine. I like to mix it up when making these bars.
What I love about making a cookie into a bar is the time you save. Rather than scooping out tablespoons of cookies, just dump the batter into a prepared cake pan, bake and a short time later you can enjoy these bars.
I like to line my cake pan with foil. I do this so I can lift the baked bars out of the pan and cut them on a cutting board. They are easier to cut this way and I don’t have a dirty pan to clean.
Spread the batter evenly in the prepared pan.
Fresh out of the oven.
Once they have cooled you can lift the bars out of the pan.
Slice the bars.
Delicious Chip Bars.
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups unsifted flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 ½ sticks softened butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups chips; milk, semi-sweet, butterscotch or white (you can choose the kind & ratio)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- Line a 9 x 13 pan with foil, letting the excess hang over the edges of the pan by about 1 inch so you can grab those edges and pull the bars from the pan after they have baked. Spray the foil lined pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Set aside. Beat the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until combined. Add the eggs one at a time and mix until combined. Gradually add the flour mixture until combined. Fold in the chips. Turn the batter into the greased pan, smoothing the top with the spatula.
- Bake until the top of the bars is golden brown and slightly firm to the touch, 24-28 minutes. Cool on a wire rack. Remove the bars from the pan by lifting the foil overhang and transfer them to a cutting board.
Notes
You can skip adding the foil to the pan if you like, just spray the pan directly with nonstick cooking spray.
Marwa Farouq (@marwa_farouq) says
Wow! this is a great recipe. and it would be awesome as a breakfast treat of with coffee! thanks for sharing. I also love the idea of adding butterscotch..yumm!
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Jaren (Diary of a Recipe Collector) says
Stopping by from Best of the Weekend. These look super yummy!