We all love the original Oatmeal Carmelitas (a favorite from the 1967 Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest), so we hacked the recipe with ready-to bake dough to create these irresistible oatmeal cookie bars filled with gooey salted caramel and studded with chocolate.
Easy Salted Carmelitas
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 2 hr 0 min
- Ingredients 7
- Servings 16
Ingredients
- 2 rolls (16.5 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
- 1 cup old-fashioned oats
- 1 jar (11.5 oz) salted caramel topping (2/3 cup)
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Coarse sea salt, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 350°F. Let cookie dough stand at room temperature 10 minutes to soften. Spray 9-inch square pan with cooking spray, or line with nonstick foil.
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Step2In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in oats. Reserve 1 1/2 cups dough in small bowl for topping; set aside. Press remaining dough evenly in pan. Bake 20 to 22 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes.
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Step3In small bowl, mix caramel topping and flour until well blended. Using spoon, drizzle evenly over bars to within 1/2 inch of pan edges.
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Step4Mix pecans into reserved dough. Crumble evenly over caramel. Bake 25 to 28 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours.
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Step5In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High 45 seconds to 1 minute, stirring until melted. Place in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; cut off small corner of bag, and squeeze to drizzle over bars. Sprinkle with sea salt.
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Step6For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store tightly covered at room temperature.
Nutrition
400
Calories
18g
Total Fat
4g
Protein
57g
Total Carbohydrate
35g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Bar
- Calories
- 400
- Calories from Fat
- 160
- Total Fat
- 18g
- 27%
- Saturated Fat
- 6g
- 32%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 5mg
- 2%
- Sodium
- 230mg
- 10%
- Potassium
- 80mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 57g
- 19%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 6%
- Sugars
- 35g
- Protein
- 4g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 0%
- 0%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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