Sorry I haven't been here. Found a temporary job reviewing charts online. After 8 hours of staring at the computer I have to do something else. Like beat my friend in angry birds, yeah I know still a computer. However flinging birds at structures is very calming.
So I found this recipe on food network, I even pinned the picture on Pinterest, and thought I would do them up for Saturday company. Saturday is when the youngest child come home eats my food, messes up the living room, leaves a mess and goes home. I do enjoy his company when he is in a good mood. Most time I retreat to my room till he gets over himself.
So I get this morning, shower and all that and go to the kitchen to gather items to make these bars. OOpps no sweetened condensed milk and no lemon. So off I go to the grocery. Saturday after 9 am is not a good time it is busy crazy and I don't tolerate most other people. I grab my cans of milk, do the self check out and leave. Get home and realize I forgot the lemon. Oh well hope it wasn't important cause it ain't happening. So I start assembling.
2 sticks butter room temp
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups old fashion oats
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 11 oz bag butterscotch chips
1 pkg cream cheese room temp
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 lemon zested and juiced
1 tsp vanilla
place in food processor flour, oats and brown sugar pulse to combine
So I did this and my best guess is that whoever came up with this recipe had a really large food processor, cause at this point in time mine is full to the top. So I am still have to add the butter and that bag of chips in there and it is not going to work. Whilst thinking about what to do I am carrying the canister with the flour in it back to the pantry and I drop it. Did you know that the g force of a nearly full tupperware canister of flour hitting the flour fully on the bottom will equate to the top of the canister propelling off upward and ejecting most all of the flour. This takes ten minutes to clean up. So knowing that the rest of my ingredients won't fit in the food processor I decide to move them, to the stand mixer. I figured I would need to pulverize the butterscotch chips in the food processor before mixing with the other stuff. Did you know that butterscotch chips do not pulverize.
So I take my ingredients to the stand mixer and finish mixing. You split this in half and press the the first half into a 9x13 pan and bake at 350 for 12 to 15 min or until golden brown. So while that cooks I cleaned up more of the flour, since some was on the ceiling, the dog, and and I mention my black pants and t shirt. Fifteen min later and I pulled the crust out of the oven. You have to let this cool completely before doing more.
Did I mention that my little black is grey now. Oh and I was fixated on the flour I forgot to put the cinnamon in the mixture.
It took about an hour for the stuff to cool. Next step is to place the cream cheese and condensed milk in an electric mixer and beat till smooth. This is the step where you add the lemon juice I didn't have. So I put cinnamon in it along with the vanilla. Beat it till smooth poor over the top of what you just baked then crumble the second half on top of that and then bake for 40 min at 350. They turned out just fine tasty sweet a bit crumbly. The son didn't like them said too sweet.
My little grey dog likes the crumbs.
