Caramel-Walnut Bars are tardily to make, carry well, tin give notice live on made inwards advance in addition to frozen, in addition to move dear ooey-gooey deliciousness to pretty much everyone who encounters them. That may only brand them the darn-perfect sweetness treat!
In accolade of Father's Day today, I wanted to stimulate got the chance to beak only a piffling close my Dad. And to percentage i of Dad's favorite sweetness treats, of course of study ... Caramel-Walnut Bars.
Just over a twelvemonth agone ... March 8th, 2014, to live on exact ... our menage unit of measurement learned only how truthful the inwards a higher identify quote is. Life genuinely does modify ... sometimes for the good, in addition to sometimes for the non thence expert ... inwards the ordinary instant.
Like inwards the ordinary instant of walking out to acquire the morn paper.
Unfortunately, that morn H2O ice from a huge tempest the solar daytime earlier had non completely melted. He slipped on a minor field of ice, falling at i time dorsum onto the concrete driveway. He fractured his skull inwards 2 places, sustained a traumatic encephalon injury, in addition to spent the adjacent 29 days inwards the hospital.
We weren't certain if Dad would ever come upwards home. If he did, nosotros weren't certain if he'd ever walk unassisted. Or live on 'himself.' Nor were nosotros certain of anything of what the hereafter would hold, for that matter.
While Dad volition never find absolutely everything injured from his fall, I'm real happy to study that his is doing great. With difficult operate in addition to persistence on both his in addition to Mom's business office ... alongside physical therapy, {many many} doctors' appointments, 'brain games,' in addition to working out at the Y to find residuum in addition to forcefulness ... Dad continues to brand positive gains every day!
Me in addition to Dad playing a die game called 'Farkel.' It's i of the 'brain games' he plays every day.
Mom & Dad hiding eggs for our family's annual Easter egg hunt.
So on this Father's Day, I promise Dad enjoys about ordinary moments ... about real calm, non-life-changing-for-the-not-so-good ordinary moments.
Like enjoying i of his favorite sweetness treats, ooey-gooey Caramel-Walnut Bars.
Which only thence spill out to live on a favorite of pretty much everyone inwards the family, non only Dad.
Mom makes Caramel-Walnut Bars quite often, equally practise I. They're pretty easy, they carry well, tin give notice live on made inwards advance in addition to frozen, in addition to everyone who encounters them seems to love them. I'd tell that makes them a darn-near-perfect treat, wouldn't you?
A piffling tip from all Mom's in addition to my times making these ... the caramel tin give notice acquire a tad fleck sticky. Lining the baking pan alongside a foil 'sling' in addition to and thence using that sling to elevator the cooled bars from the pan helps a lot with easily treatment the caramel.
So spell enjoying ooey-gooey Caramel-Walnut Bars may non live on a majorly life-changing 'ordinary instant,' it's a calm, deliciously scrumptious, non-life-changing ordinary instant our menage unit of measurement volition stimulate got any day!
Happy Father's Day to my Dad. May he relish the happiest in addition to most ordinary of days!!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 c. old-fashioned oats
- 1 c. + 1/4 c. all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 c. packed night brownish sugar
- 2/3 c. butter, at room temperature
- 1 c. caramel H2O ice cream topping
- 3/4 c. chopped walnuts
- Line an 8" or 9" foursquare baking pan alongside foil, creating a 'sling' yesteryear allowing the ends of the foil to overhang the sides of the pan. Lightly grease foil.
- Combine the 1 loving cup flour, oats, in addition to brownish saccharide inwards a large bowl. Add butter in addition to cutting inwards alongside a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press close 1/2 of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for close 10 minutes, or until the exceed looks dry out in addition to tiny cracks appear. Remove from oven in addition to sprinkle alongside walnuts.
- Stir together caramel topping in addition to remaining 1/4 loving cup flour until blended. Pour over walnuts, leaving close 1/2" to 1" border along the edges.
- Sprinkle alongside remaining oat mixture in addition to press downward gently. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes until the edges bubble slightly. Cool for a fleck on a wire rack.
- Using the edges of the foil 'sling,' elevator bars from the baking pan. Pull foil dorsum from the sides of the bars spell they are nonetheless warm - otherwise, the caramel may harden onto to the foil. Refrigerate bars for 1 hr earlier cutting to brand cutting easier. Cut into minor squares.
Enjoy!
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