Chocolate Chip Dulce De Leche Bars

Chocolate Chip Dulce De Leche Bars 

When you're in school, you can't wait for summer to roll around! You make all sorts of extragant plans and goals for the summer and get all excited for days off. Once summer starts, though, those goals like to take a backseat to laziness and TV watching. Some days you are just completly bored out of your mind, but don't want to go excericise or do any sort of thing catorgorized as 'work' or 'productive'. Today was one of those days for me. I knew that I should go out and exercise or even just do some yardwork, but I really just didn't feel like it. At the same time though, I was insanely bored. So I decided the only possible thing I could do that wouldn't be considered acutally exherting myself (no way would I put effort into anything!) but still stave off the mind melting boredom would be to bake something. Not just anything though, something new, exciting, something I certainly didn't have a recipe for. And so the baking began. I plopped ingredients in a bowl and as I worked (adding things and improvising along the way) a wonderful idea struck me to add Dulce De Leche that we already had in the fridge to my creation. And.....Viola! Baking Magic was made and out came the most incredible cookies bars I'd ever tasted. The bars were like the most wonderful soft chocolate chip cookie you've ever had, the texture similar to a fresh-baked out of the oven texture even hours after they cooled off. Everybite or two, one would get a mouthful of smooth creamy Dulce De Leche that wonderfully complimented the chocolate chip cookie part. Maybe it was just dumb luck that they turned out so wonderfully, but who am I to question the whismsies of fate. Those bars were good, and that's all I really know.

Chocolate Chip Dulce De Leche Bars

 Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Butter

 1 Cup Brown Sugar

 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar (White)

 2 Eggs

2 1/2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract

2 1/2 Cups Flour

1 1/2 Teaspoons Baking Soda

 1/2 Teaspoon Salt

 1 1/4 Cup Chocolate Chips

 1 Can Sweetened Condensed Milk

Directions:

 Prepare Dulce De Leche: You can do this in many ways. The quickest way is to micro wave it. Empty the contents of the sweetened condensed Milk Can into a microwave safe dish and loosely cover with plastic wrap. Cook it on medium in two minute increments stirring between each increment for about 14 minutes, adding time if it is not thick enough for your liking.

Prepare Cookie Dough: 1. Soften Butter and place in a large Bowl. Beat butter (I like to beat it by hand, but you can do this in a mixer).

2. Add brown and granulated sugar. Beat it in with the butter.

3. Add eggs and vanilla. Stir until it forms a smooth consistency, but be careful not to over beat.

4. Add Flour, Baking Soda and Salt. Stir well.

5. Add 1 Cup of the Chocolate Chips.

6. Lightly Grease a 9x13 pan. Put about 2/3 of the Cookie Dough in the bottom of the pan.

7. Cook for 13 minutes in oven (325 degrees)

8. Place a layer of Dulce De Leche on top of the cookies in the pan and cover with remaining cookie dough

9. Cook for another 16 minutes, or until top is lightly golden brown.