Cake Batter 50/50 Bars
Sweet, chewy and delicious with a hint of orange!
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 package of yellow cake mix (I used the butter recipe type)
- 1 cup of old-fashioned oats, uncooked
- ½ cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 egg
- Zest of one orange (keep the orange for another use)
- 1 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup of white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Lightly grease a 9″ x 13″ baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- In a bowl, combine the sweetened condensed milk and the orange zest and set aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine the cake mix, oatmeal, vanilla, butter and egg.
- Mix until it forms a dough, then measure out 1 cup and set aside.
- Press the remaining batter into the baking dish and bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- While that’s baking, in yet another mixing bowl, combine the reserved dough with the white chocolate chips.
- When crust comes out of the oven, pour the orange zest/sweetened condensed milk mixture over the crust.
- Add the dough/white chocolate chip topping over the orange zest/sweetened condensed milk mixture in little globs using fingers.
- Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes until golden brown (check at the 20 minute marker).
- Remove from oven and cool for 20 minutes.
- After 20 minutes, run knife around edge of baking pan to loosen cookie bars from the pan.
- Continue cooling until completely cold to the touch.
- Cut into 24 bars.
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