I’ve had a bag of butterscotch chips in my pantry for the last three months. I can’t remember why I bought them. I’m sure there was some recipe I wanted to try and now can’t find. So what to do with butterscotch chips! Well you can try these amazing butterscotch cookies, there’s Hermit Bars, but other than that, I feel like they can be a pretty limiting ingredient. Unlike chocolate, they’re super sweet and you can’t put them in everything. I looked through a couple of my cookbooks and really only found a few recipes and none of them looked truly amazing. So what’s a girl to do, but make her own!
I’m typically a strictly follow the recipe kinda girl, but maybe culinary school is giving me an itch to do my own thing. A great way to start coming up with your own recipes is to start with a good base or compare a lot of different recipes for the same thing, see what they have in common and tweak from there.
I started with Martha Stewart’s Butterscotch-Cashew Blondies and ended up with Salted Butterscotch Oatmeal Bars. Voila! These are incredible. The extra salt offsets the sweetness of the butterscotch and they have a cakelike texture right out of the oven.
I would definitely recommend eating these warm. The butterscotch gets all melty and delicious and boy are they good!
Salted Oatmeal Butterscotch Bars
Ingredients:
- 9 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 2/3 cups of flour
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¾ cups butterscotch chips
- Salt sprinkled on top
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350*. Butter or spray a 8 inch square baking pan.
Whisk together dry ingredients in a bowl.
In an electric mixer, beat together butter and sugar until creamed. Add vanilla and eggs one at a time. Mix until well incorporated, scraping bowl occasionally.
Slowly add in dry ingredients and then add the butterscotch chips.
Spread in prepared pan and bake about 40 minutes or until lightly golden brown and a toothpick comes out with only a few crumbs attached.
Happy Baking!
I love butterscotch chips! I might buy them just to eat right now of the bag. Might or might not. Love the new design!
Those look really yummy! I think you found a great way to use up the butterscotch chips!
Oh this looks so good. I love butterscotch too! And combined with Oatmeal? YUM!!!
These look incredible! I make blondies all the time and I’ve never made a butterscotch variety. This is going to happen SOON. I’m so glad I stumbled onto your site from Dee’s blog.
So glad you did too! Thanks for stopping by! I had to bring these to work the next day because I’d already finished off half the pan. Would definitely recommend!
These look absolutely delicious! Thanks!
I have some butterscotch chips, this just might be a tasty way to use them up. I especially like the addition of the oatmeal. Thanks for sharing.
I haven’t had butterscotch in a really long time. This looks pretty fantastic though. I love that it is salted butterscotch. Love that sweet and salty combo
Me too! I found that the added salt cuts through the intense sweetness that butterscotch has making them work together perfectly.
Salted caramel? I love the sounds of this recipe, the flavors are all amazing! Thanks for getting creative!
I also have some butterscotch chips I need to use–now I know what to do with them! 🙂 Found you on Deelicious Sweets–thanks for sharing!
I’ve always liked butterscotch yet hardly see recipes using it. Looks good. Yum!
Thank you for the recipe… These bars are so delicious! I had a bag of butterscotch chips that needed to be used. I’ll have to make another batch to use up the bag… darn the luck (tongue in cheek ;))… Thanks again.