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.
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
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and spray an 8×8-inch baking pan with baking spray.
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To a food processor, add butter, sugar, brown sugar, egg, flour, baking powder and salt.
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Pulse until coarse crumbs form then add in the rolled oats and stir.
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Press half the filling into a baking pan gently and bake for 10 minutes.
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While crust is baking add caramels and heavy cream to a bowl and microwave in 30-second increments until smooth.
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Pour caramel over the crust once out of the oven then let cool for 20 minutes in the refrigerator.
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Mix the rest of the topping with the walnuts and chocolate chips.
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Add the crumble mixture over the cooled caramel.
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Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 247.13kcal
- Fat:Â 11.59g
- Saturated Fat:Â 6.48g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.23g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 3.15g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 1.15g
- Carbohydrates:Â 34.72g
- Fiber:Â 1.27g
- Sugar:Â 19.88g
- Protein:Â 3.43g
- Cholesterol:Â 31.40mg
- Sodium:Â 92.75mg
- Calcium:Â 45.88mg
- Potassium:Â 104.30mg
- Iron:Â 0.73mg
- Vitamin A: 69.92µg
- Vitamin C:Â 0.08mg
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