Oatmeal Chocolate Fudge Bars

• Dough
• butter↗3⁄4 cup
• light brown sugar, firmly packed↗1 cup
• salt↗1⁄2 teaspoon
• all-purpose flour↗1 1⁄2 cups
• quick-cooking oatmeal (your preference for texture) or 1 cup old fashioned oats (your preference for texture)↗1 cup
• Filling
• sweetened condensed milk↗1 can

  (14 ounce)

• semi-sweet chocolate chips↗1 cup

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Preheat oven to 350°.

2. 2

   Cream butter, sugar and salt in a mixer.

3. 3

   Add flour and oatmeal, blend until it holds together.

4. 4

   Heat milk in a pan and add chocolate chips.

5. 5

   Use low heat and stir until the chips are melted and you have a smooth chocolate cream.

6. 6

   Using a 9x13 pan, press 3/4 of the dough mixture in the pan, spreading and patting it to cover the whole surface.

7. 7

   Pour chocolate cream over crust.

8. 8

   Crumble last bit of dough over the chocolate, creating a third spotty layer.

9. 9

   Bake for 30 minutes, until lightly browned.

10. 10

    Cool, cut, transfer to a wax paper lined tray and allow to firm up a bit before serving- I leave them for a few hours and they become fudge-like, but they are still yummy if you eat them sooner than that.

11. 11

    You can also use a smaller pan- I have used a 10" square and just baked a little longer for a thicker bar, which required a longer cooling time as well.

12. 12

    Note: removing to the wax paper is necessary-- if you cool them too long in the pan they are hard to remove, as the bottom crust tends to stick to the pan.