Chocolate Filled Walnut-Oatmeal Bars
"this is a great bar that will fill almost any need. Christmas cookie trays, showers, pot-luck's and family munching."
photo by KerfuffleUponWincle
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Yields:
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4 dozen
- Serves:
- 48
ingredients
- 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine, softened
- 2 cups packed light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1⁄2 teaspoon powdered instant coffee
- 3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats
- 2 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄2 cups chopped walnuts, divided
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CHOCOLATE FILLING
- 1⁄2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
- 2⁄3 cup hershey's cocoa powder
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla extract
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F Beat butter and brown sugar in large bowl until well blended.
- Add eggs, vanilla and instant coffee and beat until fluffy.
- Stir together oats, flour, baking soda, salt and 1 cup walnuts; gradually stir into butter mixture with spoon (Dough will be thick).
- Set aside 2 cups dough.
- Press remaining dough evenly onto bottom of ungreased 15-1/2x10-1/2x1-inch jelly-roll pan.
- Prepare CHOCOLATE FILLING; spread evenly over dough.
- Crumble reserved dough evenly over filling. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup walnuts. Bake 25 minutes or until top is golden brown (chocolate will be soft).
- Cool completely in pan on wire rack; cut into bars.
- About 4 dozen bars.
- CHOCOLATE FILLING: Melt butter in medium saucepan over low heat. Stir in cocoa and sugar. Add sweetened condensed milk; cook, stirring constantly, until smooth and thick. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla.
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Reviews
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Made this for a family potluck and everyone loved them very easy to put really very good thank you for posting -
Absolutely scrumptious! I had to substitute regular rolled oats since I didn't have the quick-cooking kind, but they still turned out fabulous. They are quite rich, but make a wonderful treat! The only problem I had was that a fair bit of the nuts fell off the top part when trying to eat them, however, I think next time I'll just push them into the dough a bit before cooking and see if that helps.
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Delicious! The bars cut nicely and are chewy and fudgey, but not overly sweet! I used 1/2 teaspoon orange oil instead of vanilla in the dough ~ too much holiday baking and I was out! The orange flavor was very faint and married nicely with the coffee ~ I omitted the 1/4 cup sugar from the chocolate filling, and added 1 teaspoon instant coffee due to having no vanilla. Made for the Safari Supper Club's Photo Tag, December 2008. -
Did leave out the instant coffee (surprise, surprise!) but other than that, made these as per the recipe & had some GREAT TASTING bars to serve over the weekend! Nice & sweet, just like they should be!! Thanks for the keeper! [Made & reviewed in Beverage Tag cooking game] -
Very good! I love the chewy bottom crust, but found the chocolate filling too sweet. However, not surprisingly, DD and DH loved all of it! We halved the recipe and used pecans instead of walnuts as that's all we had on hand. Thanks for a great recipe and sorry it's late!
Tweaks
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Made these with pecans instead of walnuts, 1/4c less brown sugar in the dough, reduced condensed milk in the filling, regular rolled oats instead of instant rolled oats, extra chopped Hersheys chocolate, and in a 9x9 pan ?? Still turned out great! You just can't beat creamed butter and brown sugar; the pecans also gave it a pleasant sweetness. The regular rolled oats did turn out a little hard to chew, so I'd go for instant rolled oats instead. The reduced sweetness was just right, and with the amount of nuts and oats, and how thick it was in my 9x9 pan, it almost felt like a protein bar (not a bad thing imo). -
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Delicious! The bars cut nicely and are chewy and fudgey, but not overly sweet! I used 1/2 teaspoon orange oil instead of vanilla in the dough ~ too much holiday baking and I was out! The orange flavor was very faint and married nicely with the coffee ~ I omitted the 1/4 cup sugar from the chocolate filling, and added 1 teaspoon instant coffee due to having no vanilla. Made for the Safari Supper Club's Photo Tag, December 2008.
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Very good! I love the chewy bottom crust, but found the chocolate filling too sweet. However, not surprisingly, DD and DH loved all of it! We halved the recipe and used pecans instead of walnuts as that's all we had on hand. Thanks for a great recipe and sorry it's late!
