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Makes
about 2 dozen bars
Creator Notes
If my childhood had an legitimate cookie, it would wish to be my grandmother’s Congo Bars. I am now not distinct if my grandmother changed into once the mastermind within the aid of this recipe, but she positively had a dim belt in baking these gooey gifts to the field. They are like a fudgy brownie in texture, however the brown sugar makes them taste caramel-y. Even my half-siblings, who biggest had them a pair of events when visiting on weekends, quiet rave about these bars. They are biggest eaten out of a square-bottomed glass cookie jar, pretty like at Grandma Reilly’s. —Abbie C
Test Kitchen Notes
What a palatable bar cookie! These are a doubtlessly addictive and indulgent afternoon snack; I could maybe maybe even furthermore characterize the congo bars served, whenever you gash them higher, as a plated dessert within the comfort food genre, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top and a drizzle of chocolate or caramel sauce. The congo bars possess a fudgy, gooey texture with a chunk of of crunch, equipped you embody the now not foremost walnuts. The brown sugar presents them a butterscotch-y flavor that lingers after every chunk. I sprinkled mine with a little sea salt on top, but they are great as is, too! —navahfrost
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Test Kitchen-Authorized
Ingredients
2/3 cup
vegetable shortening
2 1/4 cups
brown sugar
3
eggs
2 3/4 cups
sifted all-cause flour
2 1/2 teaspoons
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon
salt
1 cup
walnuts (now not foremost)
1
equipment semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350° F.
- Melt the shortening in a immense saucepan. Combine within the brown sugar, then frosty. Be sure you let this combination frosty utterly or your chocolate chips will soften whenever you add them to the batter.
- Combine within the eggs, then mix within the flour, baking powder, and salt. The batter could maybe be stiff.
- Combine within the chocolate chips, nuts, and vanilla extract. I’ve added the vanilla after I’ve added the eggs sooner than, and it would now not appear to ranking a distinction — but Grandma stated to add it right here.
- Unfold batter onto a greased jellyroll pan and bake for 18 minutes.
- Allow to chill, then gash into square formed bars.