Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

By christoph

Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, and butterscotch chips fill these cookie bars with pure love. Topped with a drizzle of salted caramel

Ingredients

• 2 1/4cups2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour add 2 Tbs for high elevation
• 1teaspoon1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1teaspoon1 teaspoon salt
• 1cup1 cup unsalted butter softenend
• 3/4cup3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4cup3/4 cup dark brown sugar packed
• 22 eggs room temperature
• 1teaspoon1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1teaspoon1 teaspoon almond extract
• 1/2cup1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
• 1/4cup1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
• 1/4cup1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/4cup1/4 cup butterscotch chips
• 1/2cup1/2 cup chopped walnuts optional
• 1/2cup1/2 cup chopped pecans optional
• 1/4cup1/4 cup dark chocolate melting chips decoration
• 1/4cup1/4 cup salted caramel melting chips decoration

Preparation

Step 1

Position rack in the center of oven and heat to 350 F.

Combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix well.

Cream together butter with both sugars until smooth. Add eggs one at a time mixing well. Add extracts and mix.

Add the flour 1/3 at a time stirring to combine. Do not over mix.

Fold chocolate chips and nuts into the batter mixing only enough to combine.

Line a 9 x 12 pan with foil and lightly butter or grease. Drop the dough in spoonfuls into the pan. Pat flat with your had or an offset spatula.



Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until golden brown.

Place pan on a wire rack to cool for about 15 minutes before lifting foil liner out. Place foil liner of cookies on a rack and allow to completely cool before removing the foil to prevent breaking the bars.

Trim off the edges and cut the bars into 1 1/4" squares.

Place wire racks over wax paper. Place bars on the rack a few inches apart and drizzle with melted chocolates. Allow decoration to completely cool before transferring.

Cooks Notes
This size pan yields 40 - 1 1/4" bars. For a thicker bar use a smaller pan and increase baking time.



Any cookie recipe will work for this method however you may need to adjust baking time.