Marshmallow

The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap

I signed up for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap with cookieswap@loveandoliveoil.com with Lindsay and Julie. It is a secret Santa style swap- so I am not supposed to contact my matches until after the swap! Lindsay and Julie told me not to ruin the surprise. I am terrible with secrets, this is killing me! I want to call my swap matches and ask- Did you get the cookie bars? Did they arrive in bars and not crumbs? Do you like them? Do you really ? Huh? Huh? Oh yeah, this is torture! So far, I have received one dozen cookies from my secret Santa and they were oh- so- yummy! I baked over three dozen bars and shipped one dozen cookies to three different people! I can’t wait for the responses!

These bars are so dreamy and delicious, your kids will be fighting over them, Amy’s kids were- LOL!

All of my favorite cookie bar ingredients, Oatmeal crust, caramel, chocolate, roasted almond slivers, marshmallows…..YES!!

This is what the picture looks like in the magazine- oh please let my cookie bars turn out like these!

It came out better than the photo!

Sunshine on my cookie bars, makes me happy, sunshine in my eyes….la dee da……Caramel Nut Revel Bars for The Cookie Swap

1 cup butter or margarine
2 cups packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3 cups quick-cooking rolled oats ( I used regular oats)
1 14 ounce can (1-1/4 cups) sweetened condensed milk
1 12 ounce package (2 cups) semisweet chocolate pieces
1 cup chopped walnuts ( I used roasted almond slivers)
1 small bag of mini marshmallows
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 Bag CARAMELS

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In microwave safe bowl, combine caramels with milk and microwave on high until completely melted, stirring at 30 second intervals, about 2 minutes.
In large bowl, combine flour, oatmeal, brown sugar, butter, salt, and baking soda. Mixture will be thick and stiff.
Press ⅔ of mixture into bottom of 9×13 pan. Pour melted caramel over top and spread evenly. Sprinkle on chocolate chips then almonds and then marshmallows.
Crumble remaining oat mixture over top and bake for 20 minutes.
Cool completely before cutting.

Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens
Christmas Cookies Magazine.

These are the adorable boxes that I used for the cookie swap!

Santa’s elf helping me with packaging and wrapping the cookie bars!

My Christmas Wreath that I made with help from Sweet Annie Designs.

One of the Christmas wreaths from Church.

My beautiful bouquets from my loving friends and paper whites about to pop! Merry Christmas 2011! Love, Nettie This post has been linked up to some of my favorite blogs!!