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Oatmeal Stout Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Oatmeal Stout Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

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A few years ago I had to sell a house. One I’d bought when I was probably too young to do so, and the Los Angeles housing market was angry and hostile. It was only about a year before things started to go south and I knew I needed out.

I had just one open house. The realtor asked me to leave an hour early so that she can get set up, work her house-selling magic. Before I left to wander the city and hope for the best, I baked a huge plate of cookies and left them on the kitchen table for the gawkers and home buying hopefuls to partake in. When I returned a few hours later I had three full-price-or-better offers, and a house that still vaguely smelled of vanilla and caramelized sugars.

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Every offer was accompanied by a letter, and each letter mentioned the cookies. Maybe it was just the smell of freshly baked, chocolate-studded, hand-held desserts. Or maybe there is something about fresh-baked cookies that will transform your house and make people want to live there. Either way, it was the best batch of cookies I’ve ever baked.

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Oatmeal Stout Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Servings 9 bars

Ingredients
  

Crust:

  • 9 graham cracker sheets 147g
  • 2 tbs 39g brown sugar
  • 4 tbs 46g melted butter

Filling:

  • 1 ¼ cups 100g old fashioned oats
  • 1 cup 120g all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup 92g brown sugar
  • ¼ cup 58g white sugar
  • ½ tsp 3g baking soda
  • 1 tsp 6g salt, divided
  • 3 tbs butter melted
  • 1/3 cup 90g stout beer
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 4 wt oz dark chocolate chunks

Instructions
 

  • preheat oven to 350.
  • Add the graham crackers and brown sugar to a food processor, process until just crumbs remain. While the food processor is running, slowly add the butter until well combined and resembles wet sand.
  • Press firmly into the bottom of an 8x8 baking dish.
  • In a large bowl stir together the oats, flour, brown sugar, white sugar, baking soda and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
  • Make a well in the center, add the melted butter, beer, yolks, and vanilla, stir until just combined.
  • Add the chocoloate chips in an even layer on top of the crust.
  • Press the filling into an even layer over the chocolate chips, sprinkle the top with the remaining salt.
  • Bake at 350 until the top is golden brown, about 22-26 minutes.
  • Allow to cool completely before cutting.

 

 

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Rehanna October 9, 2015 um 8:41 pm

These sound amazing. Is there any non-alcoholic substitute for the stout beer?

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Jackie October 10, 2015 um 2:52 pm

nothing that I’ve tested. I’d try heavy cream but you won’t get the leavening effects of beer and I’m not sure how it will do.

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Susan Maurer October 10, 2015 um 7:16 am

Love your recipes. As a writer, I have noticed something in your writing (verb tenses are changing) and I’d like to make a suggestion. Before posting, there’s a free application called Grammarly. I use it myself because who is perfect? They also have a higher premium level and provide weekly summaries of your usage which I find awesome and appalling. Keep the wonderful recipes coming – they are heavenly!

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Jackie October 10, 2015 um 10:49 am

Thank you, I’ll look into it.

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Jeff October 11, 2015 um 12:11 pm

Made these for football today, delicious. Thanks for another bad ass recipe!

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Jackie October 12, 2015 um 9:45 am

Thank you Jeff!

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Jim October 13, 2015 um 2:17 pm

I think I’m in love with you!!! I love craft beer so much that I started brewing it…

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Jackie October 13, 2015 um 2:37 pm

Well thank you, I’m flattered 🙂

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Bobby October 18, 2015 um 4:26 pm

I have a Pumpkin Porter (Redhook Out Of Your Gourd) in my fridge, do you think it would work in place of the stout?

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Jackie October 19, 2015 um 10:46 am

Yep! That should work great.

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Brad October 23, 2015 um 5:29 pm

The picture looks amazing, but my cookies, not so much! They turned out spongy. Any ideas?

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Jackie October 24, 2015 um 7:19 pm

Spongy? I’m not sure. Did you use baking powder instead of baking soda? That’s odd. How did they taste?

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Ross Wagner November 18, 2015 um 1:26 pm

I’m using a chocolate peanut butter stout since its what I had on hand…….sounded like a good substitute for this recipe. Love your website……keep doing what you’re doing!

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Jackie November 18, 2015 um 1:32 pm

Sounds perfect!

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Kelly Lawson November 30, 2015 um 5:34 pm

Currently in oven. I really should have read the recipe more carefully. I added the whole bottle of stout…. Wondering how this will turn out!

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shc April 11, 2017 um 9:57 am

Where did you get those beer glasses? I would love to gift them to friend working on her cicerone certification —

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Jackie April 11, 2017 um 2:26 pm

I got them at Crate & Barrel, but they are pretty easy to find. I’d recommend getting her the Stout glass or the IPA glass. My go-to is the tulip, it’s pretty universal. Also there is a glass called the Teku that most beer nerds think is the best overall glass
https://www.crateandbarrel.com/dining-and-entertaining/beer-glasses/1

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