Rocky Highway Chocolate Cookie Bars

These rocky highway chocolate cookie bars are loaded with chocolate chips and nuts and stippled with marshmallows. They’re decadent and scrumptious!

You received’t even consider how scrumptious they’re in the event that they’re saved within the fridge and eaten chilled. YUM!

One-Bowl Chocolate Cookie Dough

The basic Rocky Highway taste lineup consists of: chocolate + nuts + marshmallows. And whereas we normally see these flavors seem in ice cream (howdy, scrumptious), the flavors translate splendidly nicely to those cookie bars, additionally.

The fantastic thing about these pleasant rocky highway chocolate cookie bars is that the cookie dough is a one-bowl recipe and may be combined collectively by hand. Say it with me: HALLELUJAH.

Marshmallow Stippling: It’s a Factor

Now, right here’s the enjoyable half.

After the chocolate cookie dough is unfold evenly in a 9X13-inch pan, the mini marshmallows are sprinkled evenly on high.

As an alternative of baking like this, you’re going to take your cute little fingers and flippantly press the marshmallows into the cookie dough. Form of like the way you would possibly stipple the highest of focaccia bread to make little indentations.

Why are we doing this? Stippling the marshmallows into the cookie dough permits them to type gooey pockets all through the cookie dough in addition to on high. In any other case, the marshmallows type a heavy marshmallow crust on high whereas baking making the bars onerous and messy to chop and eliminating the tasty marshmallow impact all through the cookie dough.

Alternately, stirring the marshmallows into the precise cookie dough batter is tough and finally ends up overworking the cookie dough, which makes the baked bars much less delicate and chewy. TRUST ME, I TESTED THESE BARS ALL.THE.WAYS. Stippling the marshmallows is the way in which to go. And it’s enjoyable. 🤓

Optimum Slicing Ideas For These Gooey Bars

It may be onerous to evaluate the doneness of chocolate cookie bars/dark-colored cookie batters, however for this recipe, err on the aspect of beneath baking simply barely, in any other case the bars could also be dry.

A number of clues to know if the bars are executed or not:

• the marshmallows ought to simply be beginning to flip golden
• the perimeters will likely be flippantly puffed and set, however the center, when pressed with a finger, ought to have somewhat little bit of “give” and softness

For optimum slicing and serving, I extremely suggest letting the bars cool fully after which chilling the bars for five to 10 minutes earlier than slicing. It will assist the knife slice extra cleanly by way of the marshmallows.

If you wish to strive them heat, simply pop within the microwave for five to 10 seconds OR abandon all worries about how the bars look and dive into them whereas they’re nonetheless heat from the oven.

A Actually Scrumptious Cookie Bar

And regardless of all that speak of serving them heat and gooey, my favourite technique to eat these rocky highway chocolate cookie bars is chilly straight from the fridge.

The marshmallows keep delicate and chewy and the wealthy chocolate of the bars is intensified. They’re superb! Like: obsessively opening the fridge 50 occasions a day to interrupt off one other nook of a bar stuffed in a ziploc bag till you understand you’ve nearly eaten the entire bag sort of superb. Think about your self warned. 😉

So, yeah, serve them heat with or with out ice cream, room temperature on a reasonably serving tray, or chilled and hidden in your style buds solely. Any approach you eat these pleasant bars is the precise approach!

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Rocky Highway Chocolate Cookie Bars

Yield: 15 servings (9X13-inch pan)

Prep Time: 25 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time: 22 minutes minutes

Whole Time: 47 minutes minutes

• 10 tablespoons (141 g) salted butter, reduce into items
• 2 cups (340 g) semisweet chocolate chips, divided
• ¾ cup (159 g) packed mild brown sugar
• ½ cup (106 g) granulated sugar
• 2 giant (100 g out of shell) eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 ¾ cups (249 g) all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons (12 g) cocoa powder
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ¾ cup (84 g) chopped pecans or walnuts
• 2 ½ cups (142 g) mini marshmallows (half of a 10-ounce bag)

• Preheat oven to 350 levels F. Line a 9X13-inch pan with parchment paper. Flippantly grease with cooking spray. Put aside.

• In a big microwave-safe bowl, mix the butter and 1 1/4 cups (213 g/7.5 oz) of the chocolate chips. Microwave for 45-second intervals, stirring in between, till melted and clean (do not over warmth).

• Add the brown sugar, white sugar, eggs and vanilla and whisk to mix nicely.

• Add the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Stir till simply mixed and no dry streaks stay.

• Add the pecans and remaining 3/4 cup chocolate chips (128 g/4.5 oz). Stir till evenly mixed.

• Press the combination into the ready pan and instantly (whereas the dough is delicate) sprinkle the marshmallows excessive. Push the marshmallows flippantly into the dough along with your fingers (sort of like stippling the highest of focaccia bread).

• Bake for 22 to 24 minutes till the marshmallows are flippantly golden, the perimeters are set and the center is puffed (do not over bake – when you aren’t positive if the bars are executed, err on the aspect of beneath baking barely).

• Let the bars cool within the pan. Minimize into squares and serve. These are scrumptious at room temperature, barely heat, or chilled.

Writer: Mel

Course: Dessert

Delicacies: American

Technique: Bake, Oven

Serving: 1 bar, Energy: 354kcal, Carbohydrates: 45g, Protein: 3g, Fats: 19g, Saturated Fats: 10g, Ldl cholesterol: 45mg, Sodium: 240mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 31g

Recipe Supply: from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe