Chocolate Caramel Oatmeal Cookie Bars are ooey-gooey dessert bars with chocolate and caramel nestled between two layers of oatmeal cookie dough.These cookie bars offer a combination of caramelized sweetness, chewy oatmeal texture, and melty chocolate.They will satisfy any sweet tooth and leave you craving more! If these sound good to you, be sure to also try my Revel Bars.

Ingredients & Substitutions Caramel: The homemade caramel sauce is thickened by a cup of all-purpose flour.Adding flour to the sauce also helps stabilize the caramel when baked.I do not recommend using store-bought caramel sauce in this recipe.

Room Temperature Ingredients: Be sure the ingredients used in this recipe are at room temperature, specifically water, butter, heavy cream, and eggs.Butter: Use unsalted butter in both the caramel and the oatmeal cookie dough.If you only have salted butter, you may want to lessen the amount of salt added.

Oats: In this recipe, I went with old-fashioned oats, which are also known as rolled oats.These oats have a flat and irregular shape, and they’re commonly used in cookies, granola bars, and muffins.They add a nice texture and chewiness to the baked goods.

If you don’t have old-fashioned oats on hand, you can use quick oats instead.Quick oats are oats that have been rolled into smaller and thinner flakes.While the texture might be slightly different, they can still work well in the recipe as a substitute.

Brown Sugar: Use light

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