Easy Salted Carmelitas

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Have you had a carmelita cookie bar before?

It’s basically an oat filled chocolate chip cookie, stuffed with caramel and topped with chocolate. Also known as pure cookie bliss.

I love that Pillsbury made a super easy version with their chocolate chip cookie dough, it’s so simple to make!

Just combine their ready made chocolate chip cookie dough with some oats and press a little more than half of the cookie dough into a pan and bake it.

Combine some salted caramel topping with a little flour and your caramel filling is ready to go!

Add a few chopped pecans to the remaining cookie dough and mix it together!

Spread that caramel topping over the cookie layer and then sprinkle the remaining cookie dough on top.

I mean, how easy is this!?!

I think the most difficult thing about this recipe is waiting for these bars to cool completely.

Make it look extra fancy with a drizzle of chocolate and a sprinkle of coarse salt.

I’m not kidding you when I say that these cookie bars are on high demand in our house! So good and that gorgeous caramel ribbon in the middle is to die for!

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Easy Salted Carmelitas

These Easy Salted Carmelitas are layers of cookie dough, salted caramel topping, with more cookie dough and nuts. Yum!

• Author: Shawn
• Prep Time: 25 mi
• Cook Time: 50 min
• Total Time: 2 hrs. 45 min
• Yield: 16 bars 1x
• Category: Dessert
• Method: Baked
• Cuisine: American

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Ingredients

• 2 rolls (16.5 oz each) Pillsbury™ refrigerated chocolate chip cookies
• 1 cup old-fashioned oats
• 2/3 cup salted caramel topping
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• Coarse sea salt, if desired

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 9-inch square pan with cooking spray, or line with nonstick foil.
2. In large bowl, break up cookie dough. Stir or knead in oats. Reserve 1 1/2 cups dough in small bowl for topping; set aside. Press remaining dough evenly in pan. Bake 20 to 22 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool 5 minutes.
3. In small bowl, mix caramel topping and flour until well blended. Using spoon, drizzle evenly over bars to within 1/2 inch of pan edges.
4. Mix pecans into reserved dough. Crumble evenly over caramel. Bake 25 to 28 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely, about 1 1/2 hours.
5. In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High 45 seconds to 1 minute, stirring until melted. Place in small resealable food-storage plastic bag; cut off small corner of bag, and squeeze to drizzle over bars. Sprinkle with sea salt.
6. For bars, cut into 4 rows by 4 rows. Store tightly covered at room temperature.

Keywords: easy, slated, caramel topping, cookie dough, nuts, oatmeal, carmelitas

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