Name: Caramelitas Recipe
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup softened unsalted butter; ¼ cup sugar; ¼ cup packed brown sugar; 1 large egg; 1½ cup flour; ½ tsp baking powder; ¼ tsp salt; 1 cup rolled oats; 24 unwrapped soft caramels; ¼ cup heavy cream; ½ cup chopped Walnuts; ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

How To Make Caramelitas

Caramelitas bars are layered dessert bars with an oatmeal shortbread crust that’s topped with gooey caramel and a crisp layer of pecans & chocolate chips.

Preparation: 15 minutes

Cooking: 45 minutes

Cool Time: 20 minutes

Total: 1 hour 20 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

½cupunsalted butter,softened
¼cupsugar
¼cupbrown sugar,packed
1egg,large
1½cupflour
½tspbaking powder
¼tspsalt
1cuprolled oats
24soft caramels,unwrapped
¼cupheavy cream
½cupwalnuts,chopped
¾cupsemi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and spray an 8×8-inch baking pan with baking spray.
To a food processor, add butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, flour, baking powder and salt.
Pulse until coarse crumbs form then add in the rolled oats and stir.
Press half the filling into a baking pan gently and bake for 10 minutes.
While crust is baking add caramels and heavy cream to a bowl and microwave in 30-second increments until smooth.
Pour caramel over the crust once out of the oven then let cool for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
Mix the rest of the topping with the walnuts and chocolate chips.
Add the crumble mixture over the cooled caramel.
Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.