Recipe Swap: Mudbars

There are a number of recipes living in my recipe box that send me immediately spiraling back into childhood, where my sous chef duties consisted not of sauteing, basting, and expediting, but of odious and work-intensive things like frosting the cookies and licking the spoon {what salmonella?}. One of these is our family recipe for these wonderful decadent little treats we call “mudbars.”

Now I can’t tell you for sure where the name or even the recipe came from. My guess is it’s one of the many marvels we found on the back of the Tollhouse chocolate chip wrappers {along with my very favorite chocolate chip cookies}. Whether it’s in its original form or not, jotted down hastily on a Longaberger card like so many of my recipes are, it’s a favorite both at home and with my husband’s office, and I get plenty of requests for it for those times when I feel like baking but not having all that temptation living in the house with me.

Try these out. You’ll taste sugary chocolatey goodness. Me, I taste these and I’m seven again, peering over the counter as Mom whips dough, waiting for that wonderful, wonderful wooden spoon covered in dough to be mine. And, yes, I’m guilty of still eating the dough, salmonella or not.

“Mudbars”

What you’ll need:

• 1 cup + 1 tbsp flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• 1 pkg chocolate chips

How to make it:

1. Preheat the oven to 375F.
2. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt, and set it aside. In a separate bowl, let the butter soften. When it’s soft, combine it with the egg, brown sugar, and vanilla.
3. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and then stir in about half of the chocolate chips.
4. Spread the mixture in a 9″ square pan {double the mix for an 11×13″ pan} and bake for about 25 minutes.
5. Immediately after you remove the pan from the oven, sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips over the top of the mudbars. Let them melt for a moment, and then spread gently over the top with a spatula. They will form a frosting.
6. Let cool, then cut and serve.

Do you have a favorite family dessert? Share!

KCS

P.S. Thanks again to the folks who linked up with last week’s recipe swap! Link up with me this week — click on THIS LINK to add your recipe to the mix! {Remember, this is a WordPress blog, so you won’t see the link-up unless you click!}

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