Gooey Bars -- Frugal Homemade
This week's Frugal Homemade feature is a recipe for Gooey Bars. With toasted coconut. And caramel. How can you go wrong with chocolate, caramel & toasted coconut? Try to save some for your family. ;)
Servings 12 bars
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ¾ cups flour
- 2 cups old fashioned oats
- ½ cup pecans optional
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
- 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
- ¼ cup caramel sauce Recipe from Yammie's Noshery. I had some leftover from the amazing cheesecake recipe found in the same link.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare a 9x13 baking dish by spraying it with cooking spray and lining it with parchment paper.(Let the paper hang over the short sides so you can easily lift the bars out of the dish.)
- Cream butter and brown sugar.
- Add salt, baking soda, and flour.
- Stir in oats, chocolate chips, and pecan.
- Mix well & pour into prepared baking dish.
- Smooth with a spatula so it spreads into the whole dish.
- Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes, until the bars are almost cooked through.
- Top with coconut and bake for an additional 3-4 minutes until the coconut is toasted and the bars are cooked through.
- Drizzle with caramel sauce and let cool.
- Remove from baking dish by pulling up the parchment paper.
- Cut into squares and enjoy!