I love dulce de leche. It’s so delicious, I can eat it by the spoonful! I thought it would be fun to make some kind of bars with dulce de leche in them. So I made up this recipe with a blondie base and ready-made dulce de leche. It turned out great! The kids loved them. I’ll definitely be making these again!
DULCE DE LECHE BARS
- 1½ cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ cup (1 stick) butter, melted
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
- 1 can (13.4 ozs.) dulce de leche (or you can make your own)
- ¼ cup evaporated milk (can substitute fresh milk)
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line a 9×13 baking pan with foil and grease foil lightly.
- In a small bowl, mix together flour, baking powder and salt.
- In a large bowl, melt butter in microwave.
- To melted butter, add brown sugar, eggs, vanilla and nuts, stirring to combine.
- Add flour mixture to butter mixture, mixing together well. Batter will be thick.
- Reserve 1 cup of the batter and set aside.
- Spread remaining batter into prepared pan. It will seem like you don’t have enough batter to completely cover the bottom of the pan, but just do your best, spreading as thinly as you need to.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- While bottom crust is baking, empty dulce de leche into a bowl and add milk.
- Microwave in 30-second increments, stirring after every 30 seconds, until dulce de leche is completely combined with milk and is soft and pourable.
- Remove cooked crust from oven and pour dulce de leche over crust, spreading to within ¼-inch of edges.
- Drop spoonfuls of reserved 1 cup batter randomly over dulce de leche layer.
- Cut through batter and dulce with a knife to create a marbled effect.
- Return to oven and bake an additional 15-20 minutes or until set.
- Cool on wire rack, then lift foil from pan to remove.
- Cut into bars or squares.
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