Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars

Rich together with fudgy Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars are adorned alongside festive blood-red together with greenish for the holidays!  Whip upwardly a batch for your cookie tray, together with scout them disappear.
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It's Dec 1st, which agency nosotros tin officially suspension out the festive blood-red & greenish goodies for Christmas, right?  Like these fun red-and-green-adorned Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars!

There's simply something close vacation baking that's hence peaceful together with relaxing for me.  I simply dear to become far the kitchen come upwardly vacation time, alongside the lights of our Christmas tree twinkling inwards the background together with Christmas music softly playing.  And whipping upwardly tasty treats to portion alongside menage unit of measurement together with friends.  That's truthful baking pleasure, correct there.

I think this dear of vacation baking is something I inherited from my Mom.  I tin retrieve her baking away during the holidays, too.  There was really no shortage of delicious home-baked treats inwards our abode come upwardly Christmas time!

And these Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars were 1 of those many delicious home-baked treats.

But I decided to wearing clothing upwardly Mom's Chocolate Layer Bars alongside the extra-festive affect of blood-red together with greenish M&Ms.  Isn't it fun how something equally elementary equally simply a lilliputian sprinkling of blood-red together with greenish tin convey beautiful vacation spirit to a treat?

The rich fudgy chocolate layer of these scrumptious Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars is made alongside semi-sweet chocolate chips together with cream cheese melted together alongside a affect of milk.  Slivered almonds are hence stirred inwards for added flavor together with a fight of crunch.

This chocolatey goodness is hence layered betwixt a buttery-rich crumbly crust ... sprinkled alongside blood-red together with greenish M&Ms for the vacation touch, of course.

So kicking off that vacation baking alongside these fun-&-festive, red-and-green-adorned Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars.  As for me ... if you're looking for me over the adjacent few weeks, residuum assured there's a pretty proficient adventure I'll live inwards the kitchen.  With my Christmas music playing, my Christmas tree lights twinkling, together with baking upwardly a vacation process to share.

Happy vacation season, everyone!

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Yield: About 36 bars

Author: Tracey |

Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars

Rich together with fudgy Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars are adorned alongside festive blood-red together with greenish for the holidays! Whip upwardly a batch for your cookie tray, together with scout them disappear.

prep time: xx Mcook time: 45 Mtotal time: 65 M

ingredients:

For the crust:

• 3 c. all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 c. (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened simply slightly {do non substitute margarine}
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp. almond extract

For the chocolate filling:

• 12 oz. (2 c.) semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 8 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 2/3 c. milk
• 1 c. slivered almonds
• 1 c. blood-red & greenish M&Ms

instructions:

How to ready Christmas Chocolate Layer Bars

Prepare the Crust:

1. Mix together flour, sugar, together with baking powder. 
2. Cut butter into modest pieces. With an electrical mixer on depression speed, blend inwards almond extract, butter together with eggs. (Mixture volition live VERY crumbly ... create non over mix. If mixed together equally good well, the crust volition bake upwardly rattling hard.)
3. Put 2/3 of the crumb mixture inwards the bottom of a greased 9x13" baking dish; pat downwardly rattling lightly alongside your fingers. Set aside.

Prepare the Chocolate Filling:

1. Put cream cheese, chocolate chips, together with milk inwards a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 1 infinitesimal to melt, stirring afterward xxx seconds. (If non melted, microwave inwards 20-second intervals until melted.) Once melted, stir inwards almonds.
2. Pour chocolate filling over prepared crust. 
3. Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture evenly on top. 
4. Sprinkle M&Ms on overstep together with gently press downwardly into crumb mixture alongside the palm of your hand.

Bake:

1. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes. 
2. Cool completely together with cutting into modest squares. Store inwards the refrigerator.

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