Whoa~ that’s pretty much all I can say! Just mentally take all of your favorite sweet flavors, and combine them into one sinful, decadent bar! Now, maybe..just maybe you can imagine the amazing, one-of-a-kind dessert..that IS this Billionaire Bar!
Each bite will make you feel like a Billionaire! A sweet, gooey, chewy, chocolaty, salty satisfied Billionaire! These bars are different, because the flavors are totally kicked up by a slight sprinkling of Salt! It drives home all the amazing flavors with a POP!
These bars start with a buttery, sweet Sugar Cookie Crust, then they’re coated in thick, warm Caramel, a smear of Cookie Dough and topped with a Peanut Buttery blanket of Chocolate! See..I told you they had ALL of your favorites covered!
Heck..you can even add some Nuts on top if you’d like!
What you’ll need:
The Crust:
9×13 baking pan
1-1lb. roll of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie Dough
The Caramel Layer:
1 (14 oz.) bag of caramels
1/2 cup heavy cream
The Cookie Dough Layer:
3/4 cup (1 – 1/2 sticks) butter, softened to room temp.
2/3 cup brown sugar
2 tbs. heavy cream
1 – 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
The Chocolate Top Layer:
1-1/2 cups regular semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
A sprinkle of Sea Salt
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease a 9×13″ baking dish with spray and line with parchment for extra insurance!
2. Press the Cookie Dough evenly down into the pan…
Bake it according to the package directions, let it cool…set aside!
3. While the Cookie crust is baking, combine the caramels and cream in a medium saucepan over low heat. Let melt, stirring occasionally until smooth, about 10 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, prepare the cookie dough layer. Into a large bowl add the softened butter, brown sugar, flour, salt, cream and vanilla. Mix until it’s combined, fluffy and light in color I did this by hand with no problem…just when you think it’s not coming together..BOOM~ it’s perfection!
Stir in the mini chocolate chips…
Pour the caramel layer evenly over the cooled Cookie Crust…
Spread the cookie dough gently over the caramel layer, be careful not to press too hard into the caramel. You want to be sure and keep the two layers separate…
5. Melt 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips with 1/4 cup peanut butter either in a saucepan, or in the microwave for a few seconds…stirring until combined and smooth!
Pour it over the cookie dough layer…
Evenly spread the Chocolate over the top, sprinkle the salt…and let it cool completely!
Refrigerate for at least one hour before serving.
Cut them into squares, and serve them up…
These will get gooey at room temp. but will taste great! I keep mine in the fridge and grab them as I want one..which is WAY too often!
They are GREAT chilled! ~Enjoy! 🙂
O.M.G. I don’t even have a sweet tooth but I would INHALE these!
Randy will try this homemade dessert bars and i will try to bake as many i want. most ofen i always try to make this for christmas with my friends and for the coming new year 2017 Thanks
Wow! Now that is dessert. I can’t wait to try this recipe.
OMG!!! These look amazing! I’m not alone when I say I want to make these and then hide in a closet and eat the whole pan right?!?!?
Not alone at all~~ Im there too..haha! 🙂
Me too!
with the cookie dough layer, you didn’t write what do with the flour and salt, and didn’t mention what consistency to mix into the other ingredients
She did say what to do with the flour and salt.
#4 says it all
These look amazing, but as you may know, it’s unsafe to eat unbaked/uncooked flour (http://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2013/raw-flour-can-cause-foodborne-illness-outbreaks/). Have you tried baking the bars after adding the cookie dough layer?
Here is an item about raw flour being dangerous or not. I know you can’t always trust what you read on the net, but look at response #9 from ruthanna. She talks about browning her flour. Maybe this will help 🙂
I too question the safety of the raw cookie dough. I kept going back over recipe and directions to see what I was missing and found nothing about baking after adding cookie dough. As good as they look I don’t think I will be making these based on directions given.
It states in step 2 to bake cookie dough according to package directions.
I think she’s referring to the choc chip cookie dough that you spread on top of the caramel, not the sugar cookie base.
Since there are no raw eggs, cookie dough is safe to eat unbaked.
No eggs you are fine
I am hyperventilating!!!! Can’t wait to try these. :o)
I made these last night…they are delicious! The instructions are clear and the pictures were very helpful. One note: it’s hard to spread the cookie dough over the caramel…so it was nice to see mine turned out like the picture. I used very small dollops all around and then smoothed them out with a fork. Make sure your butter is room temperature before mixing so the dough is very malleable.
The “cookie dough” is not real cookie dough…no eggs or baking powder. Raw flour is a VERY low risk food regardless of the single case shown above…do the research yourself as I did.
Enjoy!!!
You have to be a Billionaire to afford the ingredients!
Can we substitute a different nut butter for the peanut butter?
YES! 🙂
Not expensive…most of these items are staples.
This recipe sounds delicious, but I have one problem with it. When you hit the print button, up comes 18 sheets!! That would pretty much use up all my color ink. I wish just one picture and then the ingredients and directions would come up. I’ll probably just hand-print it. Don’t want to, but not much of a choice. I tried to highlight by left-clicking, but that doesn’t work either. So hand-print is my only option with no picture, unless I get out the grandkids crayons, lol.
Hi Karen 🙂
Simply click on the “print” link at the top of each recipe, from there check the box that says “remove images”.. you can even delete any unwanted text as well.. that should make it one page. Hope that helps! 🙂
This looks & sounds amazing but…..
I am very much allergic to nuts therefore cannot have Peanut butter. Can I omits that ingredient
All together?
you can leave it out..
Made these for a family reunion and people went crazy for them. Thank you for the recipe.
OH, SO happy to hear that~ thank you! 🙂
Food service facilities are required by the health department to “cook” the flour. There is a chance of salmonella if the flour is not brought up to 160. This can be done in the oven or the microwave.
Wish it had a better print option
Would really like a better printer friendly version- like all the ingredients and directions on one page?? Such a hassle to keep scrolling up and down to find where I’m at in the recipe.