Choclate Oat Bars

Cookies, Bars & Candy

CHOCOLATE OAT BARS
Nadia Hargreaves, Kirkfield Park United, Winnipeg, MB

1 cup butter	2 ½ cups all purpose flour
2 cup packed brown sugar	1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs	1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla	3 cups rolled oats
Beat together butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Sift together flour, soda and salt, then add oats. Combine egg and flour mixture together to make batter.
In a saucepan, combine:
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips	1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
2 Tbsp butter	¼ tsp salt
Stir until smooth, then add
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts	1 tsp vanilla
Put 2/3 of batter mixture into 10 ½ x 15 ½ cookie sheet or jelly roll pan. Pour chocolate mixture over all, then dot with the remaining 1/3 of batter. Bake at 350° for about 25 minutes. Makes 6 dozen 1" x 2" bars.