Snappy Chocolate Chip Bars

WARNING! These chocolate chip bars may make you lose interest in baking real chocolate chip cookies. Ingredients are:

All purpose flour	1 cup
Unsalted butter, softened	½ cup or 1 stick
Brown sugar, packed	½ cup
Egg	1 large
Milk	1 Tbsp
Chocolate chips	1 cup
Baking soda	½ tsp
Walnuts or pecans, chopped	½ cup
vanilla extract	1 tsp
A pinch of salt

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, and grease a 9″ x 9″ baking pan. Alternatively, line it with parchment paper.

• Cream softened butter with brown sugar until light and fluffy.

• Blend in egg, milk, and vanilla extract.

• Slowly add flour, baking powder, and salt.

• Gently fold in chocolate chips.

• Press batter evenly in prepared pan and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

• Bake for 25 – 30 minutes. Cool completely in baking pan on wire rack before cutting.

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Idea for this recipe of chocolate chip bars comes from Great American Cookies by Lorraine Bodger.