Tries making these last night. The bars were a little crumbly (what my mom would call 'too short'😉 and I wasn't sure if the topping was supposed to be a stiff meringue. i couldn't get the egg whites to beat up stiff after all that brown sugar was added, so its a kind of soft-merengue topping over the bars instead of a crispy one. Is that how it should have turned out?
Hmmmm. I haven't made these in quite some time, so I don't recall the crumbly part. The dough *should* be the Toll House recipe.
The topping is a glaze, not a meringue. "beating" in this case just means homogenizing the eggs.
I'll update the directions. This is another of those old recipes (I got it from a classmate in elementary school) where a lot of the directions are just a given. I've been trying to update my recipes as they are discovered to be inadequate. Thanks for letting me know that this is one of them.
Carol
Thanks.....I don't think the dough was the toll house; the 2 T water made a big gummy spot and I know my choc-chip cookies don't have any added water. I figured iut might be to compensate for the missing moisture from the egg whites.
Never would have thought of the topping as a glaze! As soon as I saw beaten egg whites, I envisioned a meringue-topped cookie bar. Guess I'll just have to play around with the recipe and invent my own!!
"Carol "Damsel" Peterson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Melba's Jammin said:
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Carol Peterson said:
Margaret Suran wrote: > Damsel wrote: > > Chocolate Chip Bars > > > > Combine all ingredients except 1 cup brown sugar and the egg > > whites. > > Press dough into 9x3-inch baking pan. > > > I believe the dimensions for your baking pan are wrong. Or weird.
I vote for weird. I'll change it immediately, and hope that no one tries to make this recipe in a bread pan. DUH! Thanks for the catch.
Carol
That'd be a breadSTICK pan. <r&d>
ROFLMAO! My typos are becoming legendary. There was a fiasco with the Unbaked Chocolate Drop recipe a few years ago. Cocoa should have been 1/2 cup, but I posted the recipe with TWO cups!! Uck!
Carol
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What are you talking about? They turned out amazing - they were supposed to be Ultra Dark Chocolate Drops, right? LOL
