Categories: Bars

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup pecan halves -- (1 to 2 cups – I used 1 heaping cup)
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• additional flour (see below)
• 1 cup chocolate chips (I used mini chocolate chips)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375F.

2. In a food processor, combine the first three ingredients with a metal blade until coarse crumbs are formed. (can also be done with 2 knives or a pastry cutter).

3. Pat as a crust into a buttered 9×13 pan. Bake for 10 minutes, then cool completely.

4. Spread whole pecans over cooled crust. Beat eggs with brown sugar until thick. Add vanilla.

5. Put salt and baking power in the bottom of a 1/4 cup measure, then fill the rest of the measure with flour. Stir this into egg mixture. Pour this mixture over the pecans and crust. Sprinkle chips over the mixture.

6. Bake at 375 for 20 minutes or until center is set.

7. Let cool before cutting.

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