Cookie Recipes
Oatmeal Cream Cheese Butterscotch Bars
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter (room temperature), cut into pea-size pieces, + more for pan
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
- 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 (11 ounce) bag butterscotch chips
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese (room temperature)
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Drape a 9 x 13 inch pan with overlapping pieces of aluminum foil, creating handles for easy removal. Butter the foil.
- In a food processor add the flour, oats and brown sugar and pulse to combine.
- Add the 2 sticks of butter, the cinnamon and the butterscotch chips. Pulse until the mixture forms clumps when pressed between your fingers.
- Transfer the mixture to a large bowl.
- Press half of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan in an even layer, reserve the other half.
- Bake just until slightly golden and set, about 12 to 15 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and cool completely.
- Beat together the cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lemon zest and juice and vanilla extract in an electric stand mixer fitted with a paddle, or with an electric hand mixer until no lumps of cream cheese remain.
- Spread evenly over the baked and cooled oatmeal mixture.
- Sprinkle the remaining half of the oatmeal mixture over the cream cheese.
- Bake until the top is golden, about 40 minutes.
- Cool and chill before cutting.
- Run a knife around the edge of the pan, and using the foil handles, transfer the bars to a cutting board. Cut into 2 inch squares with a sharp knife and serve.