Chocolate Chip toffee Bars

Preheat oven: 350 degrees
Bake time: 25 minutes

• 2 and 1/3 C. flour
• 2/3 C. brown sugar
• 3/4 C. butter
• 1 egg
• 1 and 1/2 C. chocolate chips
• 1 C. chopped pecans (or walnuts)
• 14 oz. can Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk
• 1 and 1/2 C. toffee bits

Stir together 1st 3 ingredients. Add in 1 egg; slightly beaten. Mix well.

Combine: chocolate chips and chopped nuts. Stir half into mixture, save half for topping.

Press crumb mixture into greased 9 x 13 pan. Bake 10 minutes.

Pour sweetened condensed milk over crust. Top with reserved chip/nut mixture and toffee bits. Return to oven, bake until golden brown. Cool completely, cut into bars.

Turtle Pretzels

Prep time: 10 minutes
Difficulty level: easiest!

• 1 bag of Rolos
• 1 bag of mini pretzel twists
• 1 bag of pecan halves

(See, it looks easy already doesn't it?)

Lay pretzels on top of a cookie sheet lined with wax or parchment paper, unwrap the Rolos (this step is essential), place one rolo on top of each pretzel. Pop them in the oven for 3-5 minutes on about 350, just until they start to look melty. Take them out of the oven and quickly press one pecan half on top of each melted rolo. Squish down enough to get the pecan stuck in the chocolate, but not too much that they flatten all the way down. (You know, so they look like traditional Turtles.) Let them cool and munch away!

Grandma's Pecan Pie

• 2/3 C. sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 tesp. salt
• 1 C. dark Karo syrup
• 1/3 C. melted butter (no substitute)
• 1 tesp. vanilla
• 1 C. chopped pecans
• unbaked pie shell

Beat together first 6 ingredients until mixed well. Stir in pecans. Pour into unbaked pie shell.
Bake @ 350 for 50 minutes.

Tips:

Bake on a cookie sheet to prevent spills.
Add 1/3 C. semisweet chocolate chips when adding pecans for a chocolate pecan pie.
Cover with foil if pecans start to get too brown.
Check for doneness by inserting knife into center to see if it has set up.

This is our family's traditional Thanksgiving Pecan Pie, which is my favorite of all time! I was in charge of the Thanksgiving meal this year and made it by myself for the first time. It turned out YUMMY!