Some pretty fantastic bars for the challenge

We've been making these bars for a little while now, but I don't think I've shared the recipe on the blog. If you came to Tamsyn's farewell, these were on the dessert table. I took a couple of pictures because it's a bit of a different process for making bar cookies. 

Bars Fantastic

From Lionhouse: Cookies and Sweets

Yield: 20 bars

Ingredients:

3 cups	flour
1/4 teaspoon	baking powder
1 teaspoon	baking soda
1/2 teaspoon	salt
1 cup	butter
3/4 cup	brown sugar
1/4 cup	sugar
2	eggs
1 teaspoon	vanilla extract
1/2 cup	white chocolate chips
1 cup	semisweet or milk chocolate chips
14	caramels, unwrapped, cut into pieces (or 1 cup butterscotch chips, our preference)
1 cup	heath bars chips
1/2 cup	nuts, optional

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking pan.
Combine dry ingredients. Cream together butter and sugars. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until fluffy. Add dry ingredients and mix well.
Divide dough in half. Spread one portion evenly into bottom of prepared pan. Place a piece of plastic wrap onto work surface. Place the second portion of dough onto the plastic wrap. Cover it with another piece and flatten it with your hands or a rolling pin to the size of the pan. Set aside. 

Sprinkle the various chips onto the dough in the pan. 

Remove the plastic wrap from the top of the dough and place it on top of the chips in the pan. Press down slightly. . 

 If desired, sprinkle nuts on top. Bake 20-25 minutes or until light golden brown. Let cool. 

Now, take a bite. Yum. They're Megyn's favorite bar cookie. 

You could switch up the combination of chips, to suit your own taste. We've tried mini M & M's and caramels, but we like butterscotch chips the best.