Caramel Bars

These are the bars that I served at the Gourmet Dinner out night for those of you who came and those who didn't missed out! These are so yummy and very easy! A couple tips, the caramels are a little hard to find when it is not near Halloween. Target sells them year round and sells them without wrappers which unwrapping is the biggest pain, but Lisa told me that Kraft caramels have wrappers that come off easy and she was right. So...enjoy!

Caramel Bars

3/4 cup melted butter
1 cup flour
1 cup oatmeal
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 t. baking soda
1/2 t. salt

1 bag caramels
3 T. Half and Half (I used whole milk)
3 T. butter
6 oz. milk chocolate chips

Mix butter, flour oats, brown sugar, salt and soda. Press 3/4 of mixture in bottom of a 9X13 pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

While baking, melt caramels, cream and 3T. butter in sauce pan. Pour over cooked crust. Sprinkle with chocolate chips and crumble remaining oat mixture on top. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool for 5-10 minutes. Put in fridge for another 10 minutes pull out and cut into squares, put on serving dish and then put back into the fridge. If you don't have time for all the steps just make sure and cut into bars before refrigerating for a long period because the caramel gets hard to cut through.