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Yesterday was all about the salad. It was healthy and delicious.
Today?
We’re balancing things out a bit. It’s all about the balance……..Right?
Balance is a good thing.
And really every salad NEEDS to be finished off with dessert.
Preferably a gooey, chocolatey, oh so indulgent one.
Like these bars.
7 Layer Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars. Yeah, I am totally serious. No messing around. That would be just cruel.
It is no secret that I have been pretty obsessed with coconut. Examples? Toasted coconut caramel cupcakes, dark chocolate coconut mudslide cookie, Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Pancakes with a Vanilla Coconut Glaze. Trust me this is just the beginning, coconut everything is pretty much running through my head at all times. But for your sake, I’ll try to space um out fo ya!
When I saw that traditional 7 Layer Bars have a whole layer of coconut I pretty much jumped with excitement. I would have done a little dance, but there were people around. Way too many people for my liking. 
Alright, so here is how these go down.
I am not one for traditional. I like to play with things, switch um up, give them a whole new look. Traditional 7 layers bars just sound way too predictable and well, just plain boring. I mean don’t get me wrong, I am sure they are delicious, but these are better. Way better.
Instead of a graham cracker base I did an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie base. It is PERFECT. So goood, so much better than graham crackers. Then I did layers of coconut, semi-sweet chocolate, butterscotch, dark chocolate, sweetened condensed milk, chopped cashews and then as a finishing touch, a drizzle of melted butterscotch and chocolate. They’re gooey, coconuty, doughy, crunchy, chocolatey and all in one bar! It’s is just killer.
They’re kind of like an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie bar on steroids. Yeah, on steroids. It’s just awesome.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie 7 Layer Bars
Servings: 20 Bars
Calories Per Serving: 453 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.
Ingredients
Oatmeal Cookie Crust
- 1 1/4 cup old fashioned oatmeal
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Layers
- 1 1/3 cups shredded coconut
- 1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup dark dark chocolate chips or milk
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup finely chopped cashews peanuts would be good too
- melted chocolate and butterscotch chips for drizzling (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9x13 inch pyrex pan (you can also line the pan with parchment instead).
- In a medium size mixing bowl combine the oatmeal, flour, brown sugar, sugar, baking soda, salt, egg, canola oil and vanilla. Using a mixing spoon, mix until a dough forms. The dough will be crumbly, just keep mixing until all the ingredients are combined. Stir in 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup chocolate chips (I used 3/4 cup, but we like it real chocolaty around here). Press the dough into the prepared pyrex pan. Make sure the chocolate does not get clumped into one spot. Place in the oven and bake for five minutes.
- Remove from the oven and spread the coconut over the top in an even layer. Next layer the semi-sweet chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and dark chocolate chips. Evenly drizzle the sweetened condensed milk all over the top. Sprinkle on the chopped cashews.
- Place back in the oven for 25 minutes or until the top has turned a golden brown color. Remove from the oven and if desired drizzle the bars with melted butterscotch and chocolate chips. Allow the bars to cool at room temperature for at least two hours before cutting.
Oh yeah, balance is definitely a good thing!
Ok…WOW!! Tryin’ them out on some ladies at my daughter’s school tomorrow. :)))) No butterscotch chips but do have butterscotch/caramel dip so may just drizzle that on top.. mmmmmm.
found some butterscotch chips in the freezer…YAY! And did try it with coconut oil instead of canola and no nuts (‘cuz I didn’t have any)..we’ll see how it turns out. It smells soooo good in my house right now! Bet it’s filling my sleeping kiddos heads with happy thoughts. 🙂
Ok, coconut oil in these cookies is so yummy! I have done this before, but was out when I made these! I bet these will turn out awesome! Thanks so much for giving them a try and let me know what you think!
Yes! So excited you are trying these! Let me know what you think. I hope you and the ladies love them!
Ok, the ladies at school LOVED THEM! 🙂 they were a huge hit. I however wasn’t too excited with the butterscotch (not a huge fan anyways…) but I LOVED the gooey yumminess of the ‘cookie crust’…mmmmm!!! so I will be making them again but just with chocolate chips (milk and semi-sweet…not dark). Gotta do what a girls gotta do. 🙂 Thanks again!!!
YA! I am so glad the girls loved them! And I bet they will be just as good without the butterscotch!
Ok, wow, YUM! I think substituting coconut oil for the canola would add the the whole coconut thing- plus yummy and healthier (if that possible with all the other stuff……..?? :)) Thank you for sharing! Love some oatmeal desserts!
HAAA…I just wrote a comment and posted it and looked up to find we had the exact response…OK WOW!!! 🙂 too funny!
Coconut oil in this is awesome! I used it many time, but was out when I made the recipe!! I hope you love these!
I want to plow through all 7 of these layers right now!
Ha!! Thanks
An actual cookie base???? Holy cow Tieghan these rock. I want these bars!
Thank you, Dorothy! Wish I could send you one through the screen! LOL
Love the gooey factor and all the textures and flavors going on! My post tomorrow uses sweetened condensed milk and I love the stuff! In bars, there’s nothing better! And I love oats, butterscotch, just so good!
Thank you Averie!! I totally agree, sweetened condensed milk is SO good! Oh, and I check your bars out today! one word. KILLER!
This recipe is out. of. this. world! Seven layer bars are my jam 🙂 and your photography is simply beautiful!
Thank you!!!
sounds delish!
Thank you!
This looks amazing!
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Thank you!
These looks so good, I could eat the whole pan! Pinning!
Thank you!! and thanks for pinning!
I LOVE that you used an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie crust! I bet these were amazing!!
The oatmeal cookies made them!! So good! Thanks for reading Elizabeth!
I love coconut, too! These look great and I love how you’ve made the bar your own with fun additions – I especially like the idea of cashews!
Thanks Megan!
I’m with you! The more coconut the better, happy to have discovered your stash of recipes!
Heidi, I am so excited you have discovered my stash of recipes as well! Very excited you ventured on over to my site! And yeah, I am totally going crazy for all things coconut these days!! I guess that is what 18 years without the stuff will to you! LOL
These could get me into some serious trouble with my diet! They look so good!
They are trouble, but good trouble! Thanks for reading!
What kind of good trouble??
Ha. I just meant you are going to want to eat a lot of them!
These bars look great!
Thank you Meagan!!! Hope you having a good morning!
These are my idea of heaven in a bar! Pinning 🙂