Chocolate Chip Cake Bars

By CruelK8E

Ingredients

• Cake Bars:
• 6 tablespoons butter, softened
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup milk (I used vanilla almond milk)
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• Salted Chocolate Glaze:
• 8 ounce high-quality chocolate
• 1/4 teaspoon sea salt (or more if you’d like)

Details

Adapted from howsweeteats.com

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream butter and sugars in the bowl and of electric mixer. Add vanilla, and add eggs one at a time. In separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add half of the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk and ending with the dry ingredients. Toss chocolate chips with a tiny bit of flour and them fold them into the batter.

Spray a 13 x 9 cake pan (or baking dish) with non-stick spray. Layer with parchment paper and spray again. Pour batter in pan and spread evenly. Bake for 35-45 minutes, or until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.

For the glaze:

Melt chocolate in a double boiled or in the microwave (in 30 second increments). Stir in sea salt. Pour over chocolate chip cake.