Butterscotch is a highly underrated flavor, IMO. I spotted some butterscotch chips in the baking aisle recently and decided I needed to bake with them. I got home with no specific recipe in mind.
I settled on a “bar” because cookies and cupcakes were so, like, last week.
Butterscotch Bars
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup butter or stick margarine, softened
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Cooking spray
- 1/2 cup butterscotch morsels
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350°.
- Beat sugars and butter at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended (about 4 minutes). Add egg whites and vanilla; beat well. Lightly spoon the flour into dry measuring cups, and level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; stir well with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture; beat at low speed just until blended.
- Spread batter evenly into an 8-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle evenly with morsels. Bake at 350° for 28 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack.
I said it once and I’ll say it again: butterscotch is totally underrated! These bars hit.the.spot. Simple, soft, and sugary, the butterscotch chips exploded with each bite. These bars were perfectly moist and I used my Amazing Brownie Pan which made them the perfect bite-sized treat. Dare I say that what I enjoyed most about these treats was that they were not overly sweet? The butterscotch was a nice deviation from my chocolate overload of late. Lastly, these are a Cooking Light recipe, so although I wouldn’t file these under health food, they are a scaled back dessert.
Screw the boughs of holly.
I decked the halls with Butterscotch Bars.
These bars got the usual “bag and dump,” meaning I bagged them up nicely, and dumped them on friends and family so that we all gain weight equally.
‘Tis the season to share. 
fah la la la la… yum yum yum =)
haha I know, i’m a dork!
Ha ha, we both paid homage to things we think are underappreciated (I made brownies), I love that. Yours turned out way prettier though. Another thing I love about bar cookies is that they’re just so much easier to make. Mix up the batter and dump it into the pan. No chilling or scooping involved.
These look awesome! I always forget about butterscotch and when I do include it in a recipe it always hits the spot
These look great! I always bake and then take all my goodies to work and give them away. I just tell them, “The bigger YOU get the smaller I look!”
I totally agree, we all need a little more butterscotch in our lives! Lovely bars!
So I MUST know what you were making the other day- what you posted on Facebook. You have got my curiousity
I just bought some butterscotch chips, now I know what to do with them!
Lovely butterscotch bars!
I think butterscotch is underrated, too. I love baking with butterscotch sometimes.
i’m a butterscotch addict! these look great Liz! i especially think butterscotch and peanut butter are amazing together, so i’d spread some pb on top of these and be totally gluttonous haha!