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I bought a package of Almond Roca cookie bar mix, and the bottom layer
was a combo of flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and a bunch of stuff
that probably isn't needed. It's sort of a shortbread/sugar cookie
base which you mix with softened butter and press into the pan. It
calls for no liquid. The next step is to pour hot caramel (brown sugar
cooked with butter) over the dough and bake it for 15-20 minutes until
all of the caramel is bubbly and essentially thick soft-ball stage.

Here's my question:

If I wanted to make my own cookie base, what recipe could I use? It
needs to be a dry base that when mixed with butter can be pressed into
a pan and act as the "base dough" for the cookie bars, and will not
require a long cooking time.

TIA for any insight!

-L.

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wrote on 17 Sep 2006 in rec.food.baking

> If I wanted to make my own cookie base, what recipe could I use? It
> needs to be a dry base that when mixed with butter can be pressed into
> a pan and act as the "base dough" for the cookie bars, and will not
> require a long cooking time.
>
> TIA for any insight!
>
>

Combine the first three items in this recipe to get your cookie base.

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Butter Pecan Turtle Cookies

none

1-3/4 cups flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted


2 cups whole pecan halves
2/3 cup butter (no substitutes)
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 cups milk chocolate chips

PREPARATION:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine first 3 ingredients until the
mixture looks like cornmeal. Pat evenly into a 13' x 9' baking pan.

Sprinkle pecans over crust. In a small saucepan, combine butter and brown
sugar. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils
for 1 minute and looks syrupy. Drizzle over the pecans. Bake bars at 350
degrees 17-22 minutes until bubbly over entire surface. Remove from oven.

Sprinkle immediately with milk chocolate chips, let melt for a few
minutes, then swirl a knife through some of the chips to marble. Don't
try to spread the chips over the whole pan. 36 bars



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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect

-Alan

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Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
>
> Combine the first three items in this recipe to get your cookie base.

Thanks, Alan - that's almost the *exact* recipe I am wanting to make!
I use walnuts and coconut though instead of pecans, and I ccok the
caramel a little longer.

-L.