Title: Souped Up Turtle Bars
Categories: Desserts
Yield: 12 Servings

1/2 c Unsalted butter; softened
1/2 c Light brown sugar; firmly
-packed
1 c Flour
1/4 ts Salt
1/2 c Pecans; coarsely chopped
1 1/2 c Pecan halves
1/2 c Brown sugar
2/3 c Light brown sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 1/2 c Milk chocolate chips

Cream butter and 1/2 cup brown sugar until light and fluffy. Mix together
flour and salt and gradually add to butter/sugar mixture. Stir in 1/2 cup
pecans. Pat crust mixture into bottom of 9x13-inch pan. Sprinkle 1 1/2 cups
pecan halves on top of crust.

Combine 1/2 cup brown sugar, 2/3 cup brown sugar in saucepan over medium
heat. Stir constantly until it reaches a boil. Then boil for one minute,
still stirring. Drizzle mixture over pecans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes or until caramel is bubbling.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over top of bars and spread as they melt. Cool
completely before cutting into squares.

Recipe by: Sun Valley Celebrity & Local Heros Cookbook/Cutters of ID

Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by SilkyKitty
on Dec 20, 1997