I feel the need to try and come up with something different to bring to every co-worker pot luck event not because I need variety in my life, but because I really enjoy doing something different and getting complimented on my creativity and "skill" (I put that in quotes because all I do is read and execute, but if people want to compliment me on my literacy and ability to follow directions, that's cool with me). I love the compliments so much that I don't think I have ever brought the same thing twice, in fact. I don't have a huge sweet tooth, but I know what's good and these were darn good, per me and my coworkers. Bonus Round: the recipe has had several more hits at my hand, and I bet it's going to have some more.
You can find the link to the original recipe here - I did make some changes when I made it in my 9x13 pan... You will find my version below.
My Version (Larger Pan, more fluff, and more chocolate):
Ingredients:
•1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature (Two Sticks - If you use salted, omit salt below)
•1/2 cup packed brown sugar
•1 cup granulated sugar
•2 large eggs
•1 Tbsp vanilla extract
•2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
•1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
•2 tsp baking powder
•1/4 tsp salt
•5 of the largest Milk Chocolate Bars (I used Hersheys - You may have extra chocolate, but is that really a problem?)
•4 cups marshmallow creme/fluff (not melted
marshmallows)
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking
pan.
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until
light. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, graham
cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture and mix at a low
speed until combined.
3. Divide dough in half and press half of dough into an
even layer on the bottom of the prepared pan. Place chocolate bars over dough.
3 large-sized Hershey’s bars should fit perfectly side by side, but break the
chocolate (if necessary) to fill in the spaces and to fill up the edges. (I ended up using 4.5 bars, but the leftovers were gone before the bars came out of the oven.)
4. Cover chocolate with marshmallow creme or fluff. I bought the large tub and put a 1/4-inch-thick layer over the chocolate. It works out to be about 2/3 of the large tub of Fluff.
5. Place remaining
dough in a single layer on top of the fluff (most easily achieved by flattening
the dough into small shingles and laying them together). make sure to press firmly, but not so firm that you push the fluff out of place.
6. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Cool
completely before cutting into bars.
Makes 24 cookie bars. I cut them into serving-size bars and placed into cupcake cups since I was sharing with coworkers.
Mine were a little lumpy out of the oven, but weren't we all?!
And - Yeah, that's right, I still have an avocado stove. This thing is a relic, but I'm keeping it til a hipster offers me big bucks for it... I am not exactly holding my breath, but hey, far stranger trends have come back, right?!
