If you’ve been following my blog for a while now you know all about 2 sweetie pies! Today is that lucky day when Liz from That Skinny Chick Can Bake and I do a recipe swap and bake from each other’s blog. We keep it a secret until the reveal day ….today! The bars I chose this month were Liz’s Billionaire Bars. They consist of a brownie base topped with caramel, cookie dough and a chocolate glaze. I mean, what could be bad! They take a bit of time to make because you are working with 4 layers but each layer comes together very quickly with the help of a chill in the fridge. Once these are chilled and cut, store them in the fridge or the caramel gets a bit oozy. Not necessarily a bad thing! I guess these billionaire bars are named as such because they taste like a billion bucks! ha!
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You’ll Need:
8 inch pan
Nonstick Foil
Billionaire Bars
Ingredients
- Brownie Layer:
- ½ cup butter melted
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup unsweetened dark cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup flour
- Caramel layer
- 25 Kraft caramels unwrapped
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- Cookie dough layer
- ½ cup butter softened
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cup flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips
- chocolate glaze
- 8 ounces chopped semi sweet chocolate
- 1 T. canola oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325º, line an 8×8 inch pan with non-stick foil.
- Brownie batter.
- Cream together butter and sugar in a large bowl. Mix in cocoa powder and salt. Add vanilla and eggs and mix until smooth. Mix in flour until incorporated. Spread brownie batter in prepared pan. Bake 20 minutes.
- Caramel Layer
- In microwave safe bowl, melt caramels by microwaving for 60 seconds, stirring, then repeating for 30 second intervals till melted and smooth.
- Pour caramel over brownie layer.
- Put the pan in the fridge to chill until cookie dough layer is ready.
- Prepare cookie dough layer.
- Cream together butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
- Add vanilla and heavy cream.
- Add flour and salt and mix until incorporated.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- When caramel layer is firm, carefully spread the cookie dough on top.
- Prepare chocolate glaze.
- In a microwave safe bowl combine chocolate and oil.
- Microwave for 60 seconds, then stop and stir.
- Repeat using 30 second intervals till melted and smooth.
- Spread chocolate over cookie dough layer.
- Chill for easier cutting. Serve at room temperature.
