No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars

We all have our favorite recipes we go back to, time and time again, recipes we have used throughout the years, maybe something passed on from our mothers or grandmothers, and we know the recipe off by heart. These "No Bake Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bars," sound like an easy version of the popular chocolate chip cookie recipe, anything that says no bake, sounds good and quick to me, especially in the summer, when we would all rather not use our ovens.

To start these no bake chocolate chip cookie dough bars cream butter and sugar until fluffy, mix in vanilla, beat in condensed milk and flour, then mix in chocolate chips. Spray a square baking pan with cooking spray and line with parchment, turn the dough into the pan and pat down evenly with hands (can flour hands if needed), cover and refrigerate the chocolate chip cookie dough until firm, about four hours or overnights. To make the chocolate topping for the no bake chocolate chip cookie dough bar recipe put semisweet chocolate chips into a microwavable bowl, and microwave about one minute, then stir and continue to microwave in fifteen second bursts until smooth and melted, do not overheat.

Let the chocolate chip cookie dough chocolate topping cool for five minutes then pour onto chocolate cookie dough bars, and spread, return to fridge and keep there until ready to serve. These chocolate chip cookie dough bars look amazing, and are sure to please everyone. The author of this website is the mother of two girls in college, so she has a bit more freedom in the kitchen these days to experiment with different recipes. Her husband moves around a lot for work so whether she is in New Castle (known as Great Island), New Hampshire or living in Los Angeles, she is sure to cook up some recipes and share them to her lucky readers.

Many of us could not imagine our lives without chocolate. To say chocolate is one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world, is an understatement, with such a large number of foods and desserts that involve chocolate created around the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes (such as the first initials of names in Holland) have become traditional on certain holidays. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages such as chocolate milk and hot chocolate (perfect for a cold day). Chocolate is made from cocoa beans, the dried and partially fermented seeds of the cacao tree, a small evergreen tree native to the deep tropical region of the Americas. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, which is a combination of cocoa solids, cocoa butter or other fat, and sugar. Milk chocolate is a sweet chocolate that also contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids (some people question whether or not white chocolate is a true chocolate).