Before I begin this post, I would just like to send my love and prayers to those affected in Oklahoma and anyone who has in any way, been touched by this terrible natural disaster. My thought are with you and please know that the world is behind you to support and send aid through any possible means.
Here are some links to donate and help families who have lost their loved ones, their homes and their livelihoods.
- Salvation Army
- Americares
- Feed The Children – Disaster Relief
- Save The Children
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I think today, writing is definitely not on my agenda. After fixing up 2 essays and writing another one, can you blame me?
Today, I feel like focusing on photos, photosphotosphotosphotosphotos, and did I miss any photos?
Anyhow, today I am going to live up to being Choc Chip Uru and present to you these bars.
These soft, gooey, feels-like-they-are-half-baked cookie bars. With chocolate chips.
And for a little extra, loaded with Mars Bars. Chopped, gooey, caramel-nougat-kill-me-now Mars Bars.
I can see a small wisp of drool sliding out of your mouth unaware. Yeah, you’re welcome 😉
Oh, and this uses my special chocolate chip recipe! Get excited guys, because as far as all the recipes for chocolate chip cookies go, my one is the only one using this method and therefore has the best results! 😀
Mars [Chocolate Chip Cookie] Bars
Featuring Choc Chip Uru’s Secret Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
- 130g butter, divided in 1/2, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tbs dark brown sugar
- 1/4 cup caster/white sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 2 tbs golden syrup
- 1 large egg
- 2/3 cup self-raising flour (SRF)
- 1 cup plain flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon/allspice
- 3/4 cups chocolate chips + extra to sprinkle on top post-baking
- 3/4 cups mars bars, chilled
Method:
- Preheat oven to 160 degrees C (180 degrees if not fan forced oven). Line a shallow, long baking tin with baking paper which drapes over the sides
- Roughly chop the mars bars into small pieces (do not eat half while doing this like I did)
- Melt half the butter in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally and let it brown – when smells nutty and turns brown, immediately take off heat and let cool
- Place other half of butter in a bowl and beat with all sugars until pale in colour (continue scraping down sides of bowl)
- Add in brown butter mixture and beat until well combined
- Add in egg and beat until combined
- Beat in vanilla essence and golden syrup
- Sift both flours, cinnamon and salt into the wet mixture and stir until few streaks of flour remain
- Add in mars bars and 3/4 cup chocolate chips and stir through until just combined
- Press down into the lined tin, making sure it touches all corners and is nice and smooth
- Bake for 20-23 minutes or until golden with a brownie-like crackly top (I KNOW!), golden and slightly puffy
- Immediately sprinkle on top the extra chocolate chips (aesthetic purposes) – do not touch them then because the residual heat will start to melt them slightly 🙂
- Let cool in tin for 10 minutes before taking out using the overhanging paper and let cool to room temperature on a wire rack before cutting into
largesmall pieces andeatingstoring 😉
Notes:
- You can make it into cookies (just roll into balls and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, and flatten slightly with palm before cooking for roughly 12-14 minutes or until golden brown).
- For the best pictorial of the first couple of steps, please see this post 😀
Give me some inspiration to write my friends – what would you like to know about next time? 🙂
This looks Amazing….
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Decadent, rich and totally my thing! Love it!
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chocolate candy should always be used in this capacity. your bars are tall and fat and the texture looks tremendous!
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These look amazing!
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Reminds me of this blondie that i had back in high school. It still haunts me in my dreams.
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Awesome
.:-) love the secret method:-)
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These look very good! Pinned
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Oh Yeah!!
I do love the odd Mars Bar… and in cooking they are just fantastic!
Thank you for sharing
GG
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Chopped candy bars in cookies?!?! I need to try it in my cookie recipes. Looks so playful and delish!
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Looks amazing…. funny — the packaging of Mars bars is different here!
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I am in LOVE. I can’t wait to make this for myself. I definitely have to make this VERY soon.
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these cookie bars look fantastic CCU! I must admit I’ve never tried making cookies in bar form but recipe definitely has me convinced to give them a try!
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Oh, yeah! I love adding chopped candy bars to cookie recipes…and yours look phenomenal, my friend!!! xo
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Sinfully delicious! Beautiful work, Uru!
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What a yummy twist on a classic!
You’re a sweetheart, CCU. Guess that’s why you like sweets so much. Kel and I happened to be in Oklahoma City the day after the tornado and it was such a sad, sad sight to see the devastation, knowing how many lives were just ripped apart. Thank you for your kind words.
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My mouth is watering! These bars look unbelievably delicious! And amazing pictures 🙂
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What scrumptious cookie bars dear! I do need to try these out. My husband drove through OK., yesterday and sent me some photos from the tornado and its really horrible, so nice of you to include how to donate the relief efforts!
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This looks amazingly delicious my friend!
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The more chocolate, the better, CCU. Chips, Mars Bars, bring it on. We’ll eat it! You asked for more idea, so I thought of some (all including chocolate please) such as adding orange zest, or raspberries, or coconut. But when I searched your previous posts, it seems that you’ve covered them all. Maybe you could throw them all in together
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Oh these look insanely good!!I’ll love to show this to my daughter and see her scream with excitement 🙂
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A picture is definitely worth a thousand words here!
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OMG I am totally making these!!!!!
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When I first saw this post, I thought ‘woah, those cookie bars look so good!’ (and of course they would be good, they were made by you!), but then I read that they have Mars Bars in them too? Oh my goodness. Yum! This recipes sounds and looks amazing. Thank you for sharing! 😀
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If you always give us photos like these, you never have to write another word! Seriously, these look awesome.
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Can you believe I have trouble getting Mars bars in California? But I have actually sent away for them before, so I can see I’ll need to do that again! These fall into the category of decadent, and would therefore be quite irresistible! I am so impressed that you managed such a great recipe and post when you’ve been so busy with your academic writing. You inspire me! 🙂 And your efforts at photosphotosphotos is also amazing. You rock!
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I hope you get them soon my friend, incredible candy bars!
Thank you for enjoying them!
Cheers
CCU
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Mmmm … This is what Go Bake Yourself is all about 🙂
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You crazy girl! Mars Bars?!?! These are quite dangerous they are so good!
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yes, you definitely lived up to your name with these! they look fabulous!
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Of course I don’t blame you for not feeling like writing more! 🙂 Especially that you shared these glorious chocolate chip love with us. Wish you a wonderful weekend.
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Lovely dedication to Oklahoma and what a sweet way to do this ! Thanks for sharing your super secret recipe !
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What timing! I’ve been trying to pop over for days. I can’t believe I am here at precisely this moment when I am so craving something sinfully delicious. I only wish I could have one bite!!!
Thank you so much for sharing, Uru. I’m delighted to see you are still making heavenly goodness.
P.S. I know you’re busy but if you get a chance, please visit my blog here. I did a post recently.
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It is so good to hear and read from you again my friend 😀
I will go check it out right now!
Cheers
CCU
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This looks amazing Uru! That texture is just made for sinking your teeth into! 😀
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Excuse me while I wipe this drool off my face. Fantastic photos Uru… I mean Choc Chip Uru! 😛
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Sorry, my writing tips only include things like guilt monkeys and zombie unicorns and ninjas. Doesn’t really translate to food blogging. 😀
These bars look super thick yummy. I always was a sucker for a blondie. 😉
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Haha you are one of my favourite writers to read 😉
Cheers
CCU
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I love your step by step preparation photograph CCU
i think i’m not gonna buy arnotts anymore….
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mars bar!! How sad is that??!! I’ll take aobut 8 of these right now 🙂
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Wish we could send these to everyone of them!!!
Love your sentiments too, Uru! you’re the bestest!!!
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They are gorgeous Uru! Beautiful photos and I am sure they taste amazing!
XXX
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Aaah these look amazing! I haven’t had a Mars bar in years and now I want a slice of this!
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Ohhhh.. I love these bars! I have to go to partry tonight and may make a (healthified) version!
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No need to write when those fudgy delicious bars speak for themselves!
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OMGeee, I am drooling. Mars bars? I LOVE IT! It’s been awhile I get to catch up on my reading. Love how you always change your back drop. Thanks for coming over to check out on me too Uru! Keep up your baked goods cause I know I want more :P. ♥ Jo
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My pleasure, your baking is incredible 😀
Cheers
CCU
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Amazingly decadent!
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Man oh man.. those look so good!! I wish I could smash my face against the screen and get one!!
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I love cookies when they are still gooey in the middle, these look so tasty!
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Oh goodness these look delectable! I’ll take three please!
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AHH THESE LOOK SO GOOD!! I haven’t had a Mars bar in so long. I would probably eat this entire pan of bars.
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Deeeeeelish & Sinful.
I LIKE. Xx
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You make the most tempting goodies here, CCU! These look heavenly.
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You really are the queen of chocolate chips 😉
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I like them gooey. Nothing beats a soft center baked outer parts bar and with mars it must taste awesome Uru. Thanks for sharing you recipe. My husband will love it!
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OMG, CCU, you must know me by now that I am not a lover of sweet sweets, but this, THIS is truly a magnificent concoction, a mars bar brownie? I had to read the ingredient listing twice to be sure. Delicious.
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Oh my, those look seriously good, Uru. I like your heart…you are so sweet.
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Uru—you are the best. Thanks for putting these links on your site too. I don’t know if I have the authority to do this, but I deem you an honorary Okie. 🙂
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My Mom lives in Oklahoma, thankfully she and her home were spared, the tornado only had a minor impact on her town. I stayed on the phone with her until she lost power. It was so frightening, her house doesn’t have a basement she has no where to go that is safe.
Your blondies look so good, I will try your recipe next time I make them.
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That is indeed a frightening experience my friend, your mother is brave to be living in that region – I hope she stays safe always!
Hugs
Uru
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CCU, these looks SO tempting and ooey-gooey! Great recipe & definitely go on my to-try list!
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They look and sound positively decadent!
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I love the look of these and they must be wonderful with all those Mars Bars – I always used to stash them in my ski jacket when I went skiing xx
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I read somewhere that 2013 was the year of the blondie 🙂 I love these!
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I´m going thru so many don´t-feel-like-writing days! Gotta try this secret recipe my friend, looks delectable!
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These looks so tasty! Another great recipe!
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These looks so goood
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If I weren’t already several kilos ‘over the hill,’ I would definitely try these!
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A tear of gratitude is about to escape my eye. OMgosh, these bars are just GLORIOUS!!! Who needs words when you have pictures of bars like these? Beautiful.
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It is a terrible tragedy in Oklahoma and my thoughts and prayers go out to those affected. I completely understand how you feel about writing when you have to write for school it is hard to be creative and let those creative juices flow. I am glad you took a well deserved baking break as these sure look stunning. Chewy, gooey and delightfully perfect. When is your last day of school? This year you graduate, correct? Have you applied to universities? Take Care, BAM
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Haha thank you for understanding my friend – I graduate in September then finish my final exams in November – I am waiting for that day so much! Will be applying soon, everything is so exciting!
Cheers
CCU
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Sad to read and watch about the disaster. I was watching this morning and the aftermath. Deepest condolences and prayers to all.
I admired the use of the choc for a fabulous outcome. This is outrageously good.
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Uru!!! These bars look amazing. Ah-mazing. Do they taste a bit like blondies? Love the addition of the gooey Mars bar… definitely worthy of all the beautiful photographs! Thanks for sharing your beautiful cookie recipe. Definitely making these soooon xx
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Hmm, no, just underbaked cookies 😉
They are thicker and chewier though like brownies!
I hope you enjoy them if you make them!
Cheers
CCU
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Oh yum… I love, love soft-baked cookies. You get the best kinda ‘cookie dough’ component but the crispy, delicious outside and molten chocolate chips! I will definitely make them. And I know I will like them, as it’s an Uru recipe!! Hugs xx
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Your Mars Bars are pure decadence – I’m already in a sugar coma just looking at your great photos. Thanks for sharing them 🙂
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Uru, thank you for sharing those links and for your care & concern! We’re okay (our area only had high winds & torrential rains), but our hearts are heavy for the folks 2 hours west of us. Thanks again for your compassion, my friend. xo.
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I am sure my friend, especially being so close to them. We are all here for all of you!
Hugs
Uru
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Uru you are seriously one smart cookie these look amazing and I have a whole bag of snickers lying around at home so I think I’m gonna use them and make these Cookie bars!!
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Oh heavens, those bars look SOOOO good. I wish I had a few to snack on right now!
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Very sweet post Uru…our heart breaks for those affected. Love the recipe too.
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Its my tea time and I am drooling over, all your pictures. These bars are indeed choc chip worthy!
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I just polished off my Greek yogurt with berries as I drooled over these bars in your post. It was cruel, really. 😉
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Awww at least you were the healthiest my friend 🙂
Cheers
CCU
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Ohmahgaw. Ohmahgaw. I want these. NOW!
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My goodness, how can you have swoon inside greater swoon. This is magnificence, Uru. And really appreciate your thoughtfulness, mentioning Oklahoma.
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These look so tempting! I would have to sit down and eat 3 at once….lol! Thanks for posting the links too 🙂
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Oh my GOODNESS! Did you say soft, gooey and chocolate chips? I’m in!
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I need to make these, and NOW. They look incredible!
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Well you certainly did a great job with the photos & I really wish that I had a pile of those in front of me right now. They’d be perfect for dinner right?
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Gooey choc chips it doesn’t get better than that except maybe two?
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It’s so sad to hear of all the people affected by this event. Thank you for posting links for people to be able to offer support.
Love the decadent choc chip cookie brownies though I’d probably eat the Mars bars by themselves and not save them for the brownies.
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Oh my, I have to have these! Yum!
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Sweet of you to share that donation info and this delicious recipe! :3 When my dad first came to America, he lived in Shawnee, very close to the site of all the devastation. Scary!
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Oh my goodness, these look dangerously delicious. 🙂
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These look so good, Chippy.
And what a big heart you have for encouraging me to help those in need. oxo
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Wow. These look incredible! Thank you!
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Everything looks so tempting! And thanks for posting the links – here in the US, people can also donate via text to the Red Cross FYI.
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Thank you for another option my friend – we need to send as much help as possible!
Cheers
CCU
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These will be on my mind all day now, thank you very much! 😉
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These look heavenly!
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This recipe is totally wonderful and decadent. I need some, now! Good stuff. Thanks, and thanks for the Oklahoma love – I live one state over (also in the tornado belt) and that was one scary storm.
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Oh goodness gracious, this looks good!
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I love half baked bars and I didn’t intend for you to notice the drool.
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Haha my sharp eyes 😉
Cheers
CCU
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No crumb left behind! Yummy! I love making bar recipes and yours look so gooey delicious!
Thank you for being so thoughtful and sharing those donation sites. A lot of people are really suffering.
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Gosh…lots of Mars! These bars must be very delicious!
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Jesus Uru…this is super sinful! I can’t wait until after my wedding to be able to enjoy these treats again!
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Haha the anticipation and the need to fit into that dress 😉
Cheers
CCU
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Hell yeah, last night I dreamt that it didn’t fit!!! I think I feel guilty just looking at your cookies! 😉
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This recipe is so good! Yum! Can’t wait to try it.
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Ahhhh Uru those look SO GOOD!!!! Can I come over??? 🙂
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Waw, these cc bars with mars bars in them look so appetizing & fabulous even! Woehoe! I want to lick the screen! 🙂 I must make thede beauties! xxx
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Oh yum! These look amazing Uru! Mars Bars are my favourite but unfortunately, in the US we have to buy them at the expensive import stores. I always have my nephews in Canada send me a stash of the good British Mars Bars. I still have a few from my last batch so I am going to make these!
Nazneen
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I didn’t realise mars bars are so uncommon in the US – incredible! Whenever you get a stash, I hope you enjoy these!
Cheers
CCU
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It’s amazing how people in US – year after year … live and raises through the the tornadoes, hurricanes and tropic storms – the wood fires … and they just rebuild their lives and homes time after time.
This … is so tempting – has everything I can urge for.
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Truly it is, so solid after constant disasters!
Cheers
CCU
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These look so delicious and gooey! Yum.
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Ooo, oh, ahhhhhh! Thanks for the choc chip fix! A post worthy of your illustrious name :).
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These look absolutely choco chip Uru worthy 🙂
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These look delicious! 🙂
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OMG YES! You’re def. living up to your choc chip uru name! These bars look so delicious!
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Terrible what happened in Oklahoma! So kind of you to put up links for donations.
I would like to know what your secret is to staying thin with eating all these lovely sweet treats. These chocolate bars sound fabulous!
🙂 Mandy xo
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Oh my friend, I wish I stayed thin, I am quite… hmm.. curvy 😉
And that is with control AND exercise – haha 😉
But life is meant to be lived sometimes no?
Cheers
CCU
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Very sweet of you, Uru. I live in Oklahoma and its been devastating. Very sweet recipe, as well!
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I hope you are doing ok my friend!
Hugs
Uru
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This looks amazing – will have to pin it and try soon! YUM!
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Thank you for links, I’ll check them and try to help. Recipe is very tempting, I like everything with chocolate.
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