Butterscotch bars are a dessert made with a base of melted butter and brown sugar, combined with flour, eggs, baking powder, salt, and vanilla. Variations include adding potato chips, raisins, or nuts. The batter is poured into a square pan and baked, then cut into bars. They can be stored for several weeks and reheated for use as a dessert or for picnics or lunches.
Butterscotch bars are a square cookie type of dessert. The bars get their name from the combination of melted butter and brown sugar known as butterscotch. This mixture, together with flour, eggs, baking powder, salt and vanilla, is the main base for these dessert bars. There are also many possible variations such as adding buttered potato chips or raisins and/or chopped nuts before baking.
Like most types of bar cookies, this butterscotch version calls for dry and wet ingredients placed in separate bowls. Some butter bar bakers like to add heavy cream and/or corn syrup to the wet ingredients. Typically, dry ingredients include flour, baking powder, and salt, and these are usually added gradually to the butter, sugar, vanilla, and egg mixture.
Once the wet and dry mixes are blended smoothly, the resulting batter is poured into a square pan. The pan can be glass, metal, rectangular or square in its type and shape. Butterscotch-flavored chips and/or chopped nuts can be sprinkled on top of the batter in the skillet just after cooking to add extra flavor to the recipe. Walnuts, pecans and almonds are some of the more popular types of nuts used in the manufacture of butter bars. When the butterscotch butter dessert has cooled in the pan on a wire rack, it can then be cut into bars.
The number of bars each butterscotch dessert recipe produces depends on the size of pan used and how far the baker decides to cut each bar. Some bakers prefer large squares, while others like to cut butterscotch bars into longer, but smaller rectangles to make them easier to hold for eating. The large squares are often preferred when toppings are added to make this butterscotch dessert one to eat using a fork and plate. For example, a baked bar square can be heated and topped with ice cream or whipped cream in addition to various toppings such as caramel and/or chocolate sauce, as well as butterscotch chips, chopped nuts, or small candy sprinkles.
Butterscotch bars tend to keep for several weeks when stored in an airtight container. They can also be cooked in larger batches and frozen. In addition to reheating them for use as a dessert with toppings, they can also be used for picnics or school or work lunches.
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