Oatmeal Chocolate Fudge Bars

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 24
• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup quick-cooking oatmeal (your preference for texture) or 1 cup old fashioned oats (your preference for texture)
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 cream butter, sugar and salt in a mixer.
• 3 add flour and oatmeal, blend until it holds together.
• 4 heat milk in a pan and add chocolate chips.
• 5 use low heat and stir until the chips are melted and you have a smooth chocolate cream.
• 6 using a 9x13 pan, press 3/4 of the dough mixture in the pan, spreading and patting it to cover the whole surface.
• 7 pour chocolate cream over crust.
• 8 crumble last bit of dough over the chocolate, creating a third spotty layer.
• 9 bake for 30 minutes, until lightly browned.
• 10 cool, cut, transfer to a wax paper lined tray and allow to firm up a bit before serving- i leave them for a few hours and they become fudge-like, but they are still yummy if you eat them sooner than that.
• 11 you can also use a smaller pan- i have used a 10" square and just baked a little longer for a thicker bar, which required a longer cooling time as well.
• 12 note: removing to the wax paper is necessary-- if you cool them too long in the pan they are hard to remove, as the bottom crust tends to stick to the pan.