Butter Pecan Turtle Bars

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups UNBLEACHED all-purpose flour

  (Bleached flour toughens baked goods)
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter

  softened
• 1 cup brown sugar

  firmly packed
• 1 cup pecans

  chopped
• 2/3 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

  firmly packed
• 12 oz. bag semi-sweet chocolate chips

  or milk chocolate chips

Instructions

• 1 Preheat oven to 350°F.
• 2 Mix flour, 1/2 cup butter and 1 cup brown sugar with an electric mixer at low
  speed until crumbly.
• 3 It will take about a minute or two to get the butter worked in to very small
  pieces.
• 4 Press mixture into the bottom of a greased 9x13” glass baking dish.
• 5 Sprinkle pecans evenly over crust.
• 6 In a small to medium saucepan at medium heat, bring 2/3 cup butter and 1/2 cup
  brown sugar to a boil.
• 7 Cook and stir continuously for 1 minute.
• 8 Remove from heat.
• 9 Pour brown sugar mixture evenly over the crust layer.
• 10 Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until boiled mixture has set.
• 11 Remove dish from oven.
• 12 Immediately sprinkle the top of the dish with chocolate chips.
• 13 Allow chocolate chips to soften about a minute before spreading evenly over all
  with a narrow spatula.
• 14 Cool completely before cutting into bars.

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