Recipe - Fudge Filled Nutty Oatmeal Bars

1 cup Butter,; softened
2 cup Dark brown sugar; packed
2 Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 teaspoon Powdered instant coffee
3 cup Quickcooking oats
2 One half cup Allpurpose flour
1 teaspoon Baking soda
One half teaspoon Salt
1 One half cup Toasted walnuts; chopped
Chocolate filling:
1 tablespoon Butter
4 ounce Unsweetened baking
chocolate,; broken into
pieces
chocolate,; broken
into pieces
chocolate,;
broken into pieces
One half cup Sugar
1 14 ounce can sweetened
condensed milk (Eagle Brand
Type)
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat together butter and brown sugar until
creamy. Add eggs, vanilla and instant coffee. Beat well. Stir together
oats, flour, baking soda, salt and 1 cup walnuts. Gradually add oat mixture
to butter mixture, beating well until blended (batter will be stiff, stir
by hand if necessary at this point). Remove 2 cups of the dough and set
aside. Press remaining dough into bottom of 15 One half by 10 One half inch jelly
roll pan.

For filling: In medium saucepan over low heat, melt butter. Add chocolate.
Cook, stirring, until smooth. Stir in sugar and sweetened condensed milk.
Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and sugar is dissolved.
Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Spread chocolate filling over crust in
jelly roll pan. Sprinkle reserved dough over filling. Sprinkle remaining
One half cup walnuts over all. Bake 25 minutes or until top is golden brown.
Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Serve cut into bars
Recipe By : THE DESSERT SHOW

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #228

Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:32:28 0400 (EDT)

From: Sue suechef@sover.net