Butterscotch Cookie Bars

If you’re having trouble making the butterscotch and butter creamy, don’t use the microwave to melt them together. Get a saucepan fill it halfway with water and let it simmer. Get a stainless-steel bowl and add the ingredients to it and place it on top of the sauce pan so that the steam from the simmering water does the melting for you. Wisk as it melts. It will be creamy every time.

Easy to make and so good

Pretty easy recipe. I thought that they were maybe a little too sweet. My daughter loved them though. Do as it says and cut them while they are warm otherwise they are pretty hard to cut!

I used two eggs instead of one. I also folded the rest of the bag of butterscotch chips. They were delicious!

Big hit at my work’s Christmas potluck! Definitely going to make these again for friends so I don’t eat them all myself.

mine stuck to the glass pan and I oiled it, but they are great tasteing.

This is a great, easy, tasty recipe that my kids and hubby loved. I substituted the butterscotch chips with caramel chips and it turned out good. AT first, i was nervous because the batter was really thick and not spreading well, but after I baked it, it looked good and was the right consistency.

very decadent moist bar cookie….I opted to use white chocolate chips instead of dark chocolate (personal preference), and upped flour to one cup as another reviewer suggested, otherwise followed recipe as written (minus optional raisins). I must caution others that a heavily greased pan still stuck on the bottom, especially on the edges, and recommend parchment paper lining for pan ( I was out, so chanced using just a heavily greased pan). Very yummy for a special treat!

tried this recipe and the taste was great . However the ease with which they are made is not . I used quality ingredients ,Hershey’s chips both the butterscotch and semi-sweet and the butterscotch and melted butter never did become really smooth. I struggled through the rest of the recipe and even though my pan was well greased they were extremely hard to remove

I made this recipe two days ago exactly as written. It was slightly soft in the middle, crisp on top, and just lovely to eat. I resisted making another right after I had eaten it all. I enjoyed every morsel and will make this recipe again.

I am a big peanut butter girl, so I added half peanut butter chips and half butterscotch chips. I omitted the raisins as well. Cut the brown sugar down to a half cup, and used 1/2 C. Walnuts, 1/2 C. pecans. I followed the suggestions of other reviewers and added another 1/2 C. flour because it seemed really odd to me that for a whole recipe of cookie bars it asks for only 3/4 C. flour. I did use 1 C of Nestle’s Toll House semi sweet chocolate chips to. I used an 8 x 8 glass pan. This was really really good, something different! And versatile.

Nah….as much of a allrecipes fan I am, this one def didn’t do it for me. I’m a pretty accomplished cook, but the melting of the butterscotch & butter didn’t work for me at ALL. I melted them slowly, stirring at intervals – and it ended up a yucky separated (almost scorched) mess. LOVE this website but this is one I’ll take a pass on!

My family loved these! Next time I will make a double batch

Great bar cookie! Still chewy and keeps very well in a tight container. I upped the flour to 1 cup, added 1/4c.ground flax seed and 1/2 c. oatmeal. I put it in a smaller pan and the thickness was perfect. Because I also thought it was too thin for a 9 x 13. I also put a mixture of choc chips, white choc chips, and butterscotch chips, right out of the oven. After melting, I swirled it and gave it a marbled effect. It looked festive.

What went wrong? I have no idea. I gave two stars because it tasted delicious (although it was a bit too sweet if anything). It came out as a sticky, floppy mess that I couldn’t separate into neatly cut bars at all. So I ended up having to serve it more as a pudding in bowls. Thank goodness I lined the tray with grease-proof paper! I followed the recipe correctly, and think I would have had to change it quite a bit to get something that would hold together well. Won’t be making it again.

these were good cookie bars, but i was disappointed with the lack of butterscotch taste. you could even smell it when they were done cooking, but i couldn’t really taste it. i left out the raisins but otherwise was true to the recipe. good bars, just not what i was hoping for!

These turned out very well, and my kids especially liked them. They are very sweet, so I cut them small and was able to get more than 18 small bars from the pan. I did not use the walnuts or raisins since my kids don’t care for them.

wow – I really “goofed” these up and they STILL turned out yummy. I didn’t let the butterscotch chips cool much before I added the eggs and vanilla – didn’t matter. I upped the amount of flour to a scant over a cup, cut the sugar in half (both as per advice from others), left out the nuts and added some quick oats instead for texture and poured into an 8×8 pan for a cakier result. oh yes – and the chocolate chips melted after I added them into the still-warm batter. I’m giving it 5 stars for its versatility. How many other recipes can you goof up so much and still have it turn out yummy?? I’m adding vanilla ice cream to it for dessert tonight – and a drizzle of caramel sauce to make it truly decadent.

These bars were really good, but they were too much of a pain for me to make again. I followed the recipe exactly, but didn’t add the walnuts or raisins because I didn’t have any, and no one here is a raisin fan. Yes, the butterscotch chips do ‘curdle’ when you microwave them, but since I saw that was supposed to happen from other reviewers I just went with it. They are very hard to spread in the pan because they are so sticky and they are also very hard to remove from the pan. I’d recommend lining the pan as well as spraying it. They taste really good though…very sweet.

I read the reviews before making. I ended up using 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1 cup of a mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips, 1/2 cup of a mix of almonds and walnuts (I keep a mix for my oatmeal in mornings), and baked in an 8×8 pan. The bars came out sufficiently, but not too sweet, and a bit caky- just like we like. I would definitely make these again!

I read the reviews before making. I ended up using 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1 cup of a mix of semi-sweet and milk chocolate chips, 1/2 cup of a mix of almonds and walnuts (I keep a mix for my oatmeal in mornings), and baked in an 8×8 pan. The bars came out sufficiently, but not too sweet, and a bit caky- just like we like. I would definitely make these again!