Salted Caramel Oreo Bars

These sweet and salty dessert bars are packed with an Oreo crust, chocolate, pretzels and salted caramel.  You won’t believe how easy these are to make.

I wanted to make some spin on the ever famous Seven Layer Bars / Magic Bars.  These are quite different from that but conceptually the building blocks are the same.  Oreos instead of graham crackers, salted caramel instead of sweetened condensed milk, chocolate chips and pretzel pieces to replace the other toppings you may be used to.  Once you have your caramel, they are super easy to put together… and just as easy to eat!

Salted Caramel Oreo Bars

Yield: 9-12 servings

Ingredients:

- 8 ounces (~2 cups / 20 cookies) finely crushed Oreos

- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

- 8 1/2 ounces (~1 1/4) cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

- 2 ounces (~1 1/2 cups) salted pretzel pieces

- 1 cup salted caramel

Instructions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees; spray a 9x9 baking dish with cooking spray and set aside

2. In a medium bowl, combine Oreo crumbs and melted butter; press mixture down evenly into prepared baking dish

3. Pour about half of chocolate chips over crust

4. Combine pretzel pieces and salted caramel, pour mixture over chocolate chip layer

5. Pour remaining chocolate chips over top of bars

6. Bake for about 25 minutes or until caramel is bubbling around edges and bars appear set

7. Allow to cool before slicing

8. Store leftover bars covered at room temperature up to four days