Saturday, May 14, 2011

Congo Bars



Is this even considered baking?

This recipe involves melting butter, sprinkling sugar laden toppings, pouring a sweet liquid and then 30 minutes in the oven. I suppose technically I'm baking, but it is more like baking-lite.

You've had these chewy, sweet, guilty delights. They are Congo bars, treasure bars, glop bars....they have many aliases (aliai?). They consist of butter, graham cracker crumbs, chocolate and butterscotch chips, coconut and sweetened condensed milk. If you have been to a pot-luck, bake sale or other "cripes I've got to pull a dessert together that everyone will love, and do it quick," event, then you have made these, sold these or eaten these.

I'm making these to take to Vermont for a pre-graduation pot luck (of course) for Molly and her roomies families & friends. We are at T-minus 47 hours and 27 minutes til graduation. Zoiks!
If you would like to hire a bright, charming, and witty Philosopher, please let me know.

Congo Bars
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter

1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1- 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1- 1/2 cups butterscotch chips
1-1/2 cups flaked coconut
1 cup chopped walnuts (as usual, I passed on the walnuts)
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk 

What to do   

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 

Melt the butter or margarine in a 9x13 inch baking pan. Sprinkle the graham cracker crumbs evenly over the butter. Sprinkle on the chocolate chips and butterscotch chips. Cover with the flaked coconut. Sprinkle the walnuts on top of the coconut layer. Finally, pour the condensed milk over everything as evenly as you can.

Bake at 350 for 30 - 35 minutes.

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