Description
Caramel oat bars are the ultimate sweet-salty treat made from a chewy oatmeal cookie bar base topped with ooey salted caramel, chocolate, and crunchy cashews.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cups finely crushed pretzels
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 (14 oz) can of sweetened condensed milk, minus 1/2 cup)
- 1 (11oz) bag of caramels, unwrapped
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped cashews
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F
- Line a 15x10x1 inch pan with foil.
- With your electric mixer beat butter and sugars together. Add eggs and vanilla until incorporated.
- Add your pretzels and flour, baking soda, and salt on low speed. Slowly mix in your oats.
- Set aside 1 cup of your batter.
- Press the remaining batter into the prepared pan.
- In a medium saucepan combine your caramels and sweetened condensed milk over medium heat, until the caramels are melted and the mixture is smooth.
- Pour caramel over the oat batter in the pan. Add the cashews, chocolate chips, and remaining oat batter on top. Sprinkle the bars evenly with coarse sea salt.
- Bake for 20-2 minutes until top starts to golden.
- Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. When cool, lift the bars from the pan with foil and cut.
