Jaynes Congo Bars Food

CONGO BARS

Steps:

• Melt the butter and add brown sugar; mix well and cool.
• Add eggs, one at a time, beating well each time.
• Add dry ingredients and mix well.
• Add the nuts and chocolate bits.
• Put in a greased 9x13 pan and bake 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes.

JAYNE'S OH SO GOOD...TOFFEE BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 dF and line a cookie sheet or jelly roll pan with foil. Then line the pan with saltine crackers in a single layer until bottom of pan is covered.
• In a small pot combine sugar and butter and bring to a boil. Once mixture is at a boil, continue boiling for 3 minutes. Mixture should be a deep caramel color. Immediately pour over saltines and spread to cover crackers completely. Bake at 400 dF, for 5 to 6 minutes. The crackers will look all bubbly.
• Remove from oven and sprinkle chocolate chips over the top and let sit a couple of minutes to melt (or set back in oven a bit to speed melting (or melt the chocolate chips in the microwave for about 1 minute) then spread it over saltines.
• After spreading crackers with the melted chocolate then top with chopped nuts if desired. Jayne used pecans, you can use any chopped nuts you desire (or no nuts).
• Cool completely before you break into pieces. Jayne set the pans (yes, we made 2-pans) in the refrig over night and we broke them into pieces the next morning. So quick, sooo easy and delish!!!

CONGO BARS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Mix together ingredients going down the list. (Eggs one at the time).
• Pour mixture into 9x13 baking dish. (Mixture will be thick).
• Bake for 30 minutes.
• Cut and Enjoy! (Let it cool for a little bit so that it will form and not be so gooey -- unless you like it that way of course).

JAYNE'S CONGO BARS

Steps:

• Set the oven at 350˚ with a rack in the center. Butter a 9 x 13 inch baking pan. Cream the butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer for 1 minute or until thoroughly blended. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. With the mixer set on its lowest speed, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture just until the dry ingredients are blended thoroughly. Use a wooden spoon to stir the choc. chips and nuts, if using, into the batter. Spoon the batter into the pan and use a metal palette knife to smooth the top of the batter. Bake in the center of oven for 22 minutes - cool on wire rack, store in airtight container with wax paper.