Caramel-Walnut Bars are slowly to make, carry well, tin live on made inwards advance as well as frozen, as well as move honey ooey-gooey deliciousness to pretty much everyone who encounters them. That may but brand them the darn-perfect sweetness treat!
In laurels of Father's Day today, I wanted to conduct keep the chance to beak but a fiddling virtually my Dad. And to part 1 of Dad's favorite sweetness treats, of course of teaching ... Caramel-Walnut Bars.
Just over a twelvemonth agone ... March 8th, 2014, to live on exact ... our solid unit of measurement learned but how truthful the higher upward quote is. Life really does modify ... sometimes for the good, as well as sometimes for the non thence adept ... inwards the ordinary instant.
Like inwards the ordinary instant of walking out to acquire the forenoon paper.
Unfortunately, that forenoon H2O ice from a huge tempest the 24-hour interval earlier had non completely melted. He slipped on a pocket-size acre of ice, falling straight off dorsum onto the concrete driveway. He fractured his skull inwards 2 places, sustained a traumatic encephalon injury, as well as spent the adjacent 29 days inwards the hospital.
We weren't certain if Dad would ever come upward home. If he did, nosotros weren't certain if he'd ever walk unassisted. Or live on 'himself.' Nor were nosotros certain of anything of what the hereafter would hold, for that matter.
While Dad volition never find absolutely everything injured from his fall, I'm real happy to written report that his is doing great. With difficult operate as well as persistence on both his as well as Mom's business office ... alongside physical therapy, {many many} doctors' appointments, 'brain games,' as well as working out at the Y to find residuum as well as forcefulness ... Dad continues to brand positive gains every day!
Me as well as Dad playing a die game called 'Farkel.' It's 1 of the 'brain games' he plays every day.
Mom & Dad hiding eggs for our family's annual Easter egg hunt.
So on this Father's Day, I promise Dad enjoys about ordinary moments ... about real calm, non-life-changing-for-the-not-so-good ordinary moments.
Like enjoying 1 of his favorite sweetness treats, ooey-gooey Caramel-Walnut Bars.
Which but thence laissez passer on off to live on a favorite of pretty much everyone inwards the family, non but Dad.
Mom makes Caramel-Walnut Bars quite often, every bit practise I. They're pretty easy, they carry well, tin live on made inwards advance as well as frozen, as well as everyone who encounters them seems to love them. I'd nation that makes them a darn-near-perfect treat, wouldn't you?
A fiddling tip from all Mom's as well as my times making these ... the caramel tin acquire a tad chip sticky. Lining the baking pan alongside a foil 'sling' as well as and then using that sling to elevator the cooled bars from the pan helps a lot with easily treatment the caramel.
So spell enjoying ooey-gooey Caramel-Walnut Bars may non live on a majorly life-changing 'ordinary instant,' it's a calm, deliciously scrumptious, non-life-changing ordinary instant our solid unit of measurement volition conduct keep any day!
Happy Father's Day to my Dad. May he taste the happiest as well as most ordinary of days!!
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 c. old-fashioned oats
- 1 c. + 1/4 c. all-purpose flour, divided
- 1 c. packed night dark-brown sugar
- 2/3 c. butter, at room temperature
- 1 c. caramel H2O ice cream topping
- 3/4 c. chopped walnuts
- Line an 8" or 9" foursquare baking pan alongside foil, creating a 'sling' yesteryear allowing the ends of the foil to overhang the sides of the pan. Lightly grease foil.
- Combine the 1 loving cup flour, oats, as well as dark-brown carbohydrate inwards a large bowl. Add butter as well as cutting inwards alongside a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press virtually 1/2 of the mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees for virtually 10 minutes, or until the move yesteryear looks dry out as well as tiny cracks appear. Remove from oven as well as sprinkle alongside walnuts.
- Stir together caramel topping as well as remaining 1/4 loving cup flour until blended. Pour over walnuts, leaving virtually 1/2" to 1" border along the edges.
- Sprinkle alongside remaining oat mixture as well as press downwards gently. Bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes until the edges bubble slightly. Cool for a chip on a wire rack.
- Using the edges of the foil 'sling,' elevator bars from the baking pan. Pull foil dorsum from the sides of the bars spell they are withal warm - otherwise, the caramel may harden onto to the foil. Refrigerate bars for 1 hr earlier cutting to brand cutting easier. Cut into pocket-size squares.
Enjoy!
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