From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...We spent most of Sunday at a Mushroom Festival held at the arboretum in our area. This is a yearly event and I really look forward to it. Many of the Master Gardeners volunteer for the event. I'm not among them because I want the day to peruse and learn and touch base with folks I haven't seen since the last show. If you're into mushrooms there are some prestigious elbows to be rubbed here and that's hard to do when you are manning an exhibit. My guilty conscience is assuaged by donating baked goods for the cold wet volunteers who do what I should be doing. This Sunday I made several pans of these wonderful bar cookies. They are embarrassingly easy to make and I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't like them. I'd love to tell you it's a gourmet creation. It's not. The recipe comes the Eagle Brand test kitchen. I don't know if my experience is unique, but I have extremely good luck with recipes from these kitchens and I never hesitate to try the ones they feature. Today's recipe requires no special equipment and it's very easy to do. The bars are wonderfully flavorful and they are crowd pleasers. Nuff' said. Here's the recipe.
Maple Chocolate Walnut Bars...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of Eagle Brand Test Kitchen
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups Pillsbury BEST® All Purpose Flour
2/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup cold butter
2 large eggs
1 (14 oz.) can Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk
1-1/2 teaspoons maple flavoring
2 cups chopped walnuts
1 cup (6 oz. pkg.) semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
1) Heat oven to 350 F. Combine flour, sugar and salt in large bowl. Cut in butter with pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in 1 egg. Press evenly into an ungreased 13 x 9-inch baking pan.
2) Bake 25 minutes. Beat sweetened condensed milk, remaining 1 egg and maple flavoring in medium bowl. Stir in walnuts. Sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over partially baked crust. Top with walnut mixture, spreading evenly to edges.
3) Bake an additional 20 to 25 minutes or until golden. Cool. Cut into bars. Yield: 36 bars.
34 comments :
These are absolutely stunning bars. I am going to print up the recipe. This is a recipe, I think, everyone is going to like. Thanks.
Great pictures. These look so yummy and easy.
I have a can of this condensed milk in my cupboard right now. I've been wanting to do something with it. I know what to do now! These look amazing!
Looks wonderful!
they look great, spotted them on tastespotting & had to pop by for a visit. fantastic blog!
I was looking for something to bake tomorrow, these look PERFECT. I love baking with SCM.
Mary your Maple Chocolate Bars just exude Fall. These sound perfect for sharing with the neighbors on Halloween!
I read your blog entry title in my Google reader, and started swallowing hard...knowing by the time I saw your photo share, I'd be drooling. And I am.
You torture me Mary.
But ohhhhhhh, my....so so good. I can smell them baking, I can TASTE 'em too.
Ooey, gooey and delicious. Maple is one of my favorite flavors this time of year. My family will love this, Mary.
I don't care if this is not gourmet, all that matters is that they look good. Just the thing to have a square of on a rainy, gross afternoon. Thanks for the great recipe and beautiful pictures.
Hmmmm. These sound perfectly decadent.
I just looked at their site. I have some condensed milk that I need to use- what a perfect place to find the right recipe.
those look delicious
oh, wow mary. these look AMAZING. i was going to make my dad some praline brownies to cheer him up, but i might try these instead! they look ridiculous!
I'm going to try this. It has one of my most favorite ingredients, sweetened condensed milk. A whole can! Yum!
Yummy my mouth is watering!
These are very drool worthy sweets! Bookmarking for my husband-he'll love these! And so will I.
Yummy!
Oh Mary - these have me drooling. I love maple/chocolate. YUM!
Oh...those look good. Definitely my kind of food!
Mary, these are truly decadent rich looking bars. Bet they are unbelievably delicious. Thanks...
Lol! I do that too. Bake for something to ease my guilt. They look so moist and gooey Mary, I would likely eat the pan before they arrived!
Laura
Oh my, oh my, oh my. Your cookies just leap off the screen (and I wish into my mouth!).
These look heavenly - just divine. I think your wet, cold volunteers are very lucky. I'd volunteer for some!
Those look so gooey and good,perfect for the season,and I'm jealous you got to go to a mushroom fesitival. :)
Hooray for condensed milk!
Oh, god Mary. I will be making these as soon as the pumpkin pie bars are eaten up! Holy cow they look amazing.
It was love at first site! I'm thinking I might have to make these. :)
I love recipes like these Mary. Simple but packing loads of taste.
I'm totally drooling with these nice looking chocolate walnut bars! Look so moist and tsaty lol.
Great flavors! Just perfect for fall!
Oh Mary, you would have to physically remove me from the dessert plate with these on it! They are wonderful!
Okay, sold. I can almost sink my teeth into the gooey deliciousness just from the photographs.
When I lived in CA, I would attend the Mendocino mushroom festival every year-- oh how I miss it!
These sound and look amazing, so right up my alley as a nut lover!
you have no idea how much I'd love something like this for breakfast :) instead, have oatmeal.
Condensed milk is awesome!
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