What’s better than shortbread? Shortbread with caramel and chocolate!
Don’t worry, there’s some oats as well so really it’s a breakfast bar…
I make these using my pink salt caramel sauce. If you don’t want to take that step (which believe me, that sauce is worth the step!) you could melt premade caramel or just sprinkle with caramel bits. Using a sauce makes these so much more decadent though.
These are great when you need a big batch of something, I make a double batch in a jelly roll pan and bake for the same amount of time.
Caramel Oat Shortbread Bars
October 3, 2020
Category
Brownies / Bars
Persons
9
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
40 minutes
Total Time
50 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 cups old fashioned oats
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup caramel sauce
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream together the butter and powdered sugar in a large bowl.
- Add the flour, oats, salt, and vanilla. Mix until combined well.
- (I use the paddle attachment in my stand mixer or mix by hand with a wooden spoon.)
- Line a 9 by 13 inch pan with parchment paper and sprinkle half of the mixture into the pan.
- Use more than half of mixture if needed to cover the bottom of the pan.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes remove from oven and drizzle with the caramel sauce and sprinkle the chocolate chips on next.
- Crumble remaining dough on top and return to oven for 20 minutes.
- Cool in pan before removing using the parchment paper and cut into squares.
