Holiday Chocolate Peppermint Bars

(from marita.gaines’s recipe box)

Source: RecipeThing user SusanLiz

Categories: Bake, Chocolate, Dessert, Holiday, Peppermint

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup cold butter
  • 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups crushed candy canes
  • 1/2 tsp. peppermint extract
  • 1 tsp. shortening

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350ยบ.

  2. Combine flour and sugar; cut in butter until crumbly. Press on bottom of 13×9-inch baking pan. Bake 20 minutes.

  3. Melt 1 cup of the chips with milk; remove from heat. Cool slightly beat in egg. Stir in extract Spread over crust.

  4. Bake 25 minutes. Sprinkle with crushed candy canes. Cool

  5. Melt remaining 1/2 cup chips with shortening; drizzle over bars. Chill 10 minutes.

  6. Cut into bars.

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