Rocky Ledge Bars
It’s been a while since I’ve done a Week of something, so I thought I’d feature 5 bar/brownie recipes. They’ve been my favorite dessert recently.
A couple weeks ago was my brother’s wife’s baby shower. We’re all really excited about the first grandchild in our family and I can’t wait to meet my nephew in just a couple months. The majority of my family is still in the Midwest, but luckily quite a few of them got to make the trip out East for the shower. One of my sisters, my mom, and 3 of her sisters all came to Boston for a 3 day weekend.
The day before the shower, the plan was to hang out at my brother’s house in the evening. I offered to bring over a dessert to snack on. One thing I love about making bars is that they travel so well! You don’t have to worry about them toppling over like you do with cupcakes.
We all really enjoyed these bars. They had the perfect amount of candy mixins and surprisingly weren’t too sweet. I think all of my aunts and my mom asked for this recipe so they could make them for their families. I did slightly adjust the amount of chocolate in the recipe as shown below.
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Rocky Ledge Bars
Yield: ~36
Ingredients:
1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup mini marshmallows, divided
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips, divided
1 cup white chocolate chips, divided
18 squares individually wrapped caramels, divided and chopped into quarters
1 1/2 cup chocolate covered toffee chips, divided
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter a 9-by-13-inch baking pan. Cut a piece of parchment paper large enough to cover the bottom of the pan and to overhang the longer sides. Place the parchment in the pan, butter the parchment, and set aside. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
In a medium bowl using a wooden spoon, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until well combined. Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture; mix just until combined. Fold in half of the marshmallows, chocolates, caramels, and toffee chips.
Using an offset spatula, spread the batter in the prepared pan. Scatter the remaining marshmallows, chocolates, caramels, and toffee chips over the surface of the batter. Bake until golden brown and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out almost clean, about 35 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack until completely cooled. Using the overhanging parchment paper, remove from pan. Place on a baking sheet, and chill in the refrigerator until set, about 30 minutes.
Remove from refrigerator, and peel off the parchment paper. Using a serrated knife, cut into 15 irregular-shaped bars. Stack bars vertically. Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
Recipe from Martha Stewart
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
oh no! that’s too bad he had to guess… they look awesome and i bet they taste better too!
I will GLADLY be your taste tester for all these candy bars! Looks great!
these look amazing!!! I want to try all three kinds 🙂 How do you think these would hold up if I gave them out as gifts a day or two after making them? Do they have to be refrigerated?
I kind of want to go trick or treating at your house with these candies! I got a recipe from King Arthur Flour to make Twix bars that I’m dying to try out!
Laura – I don’t know if they have to be refrigerated. I kept mine in the freezer and we snacked on them for over a week.
Fun and Fearless – If you decide to make Twix – let me know cause I want in on that!
This is an entire blog about candy, chocolate bars, and sugary stuff? I think I have just fallen in love.
I didn’t read down far enough in the post, I got too excited when I realized what I had stumbled upon, but i have to go back to see if you gave the Snicker’s bar recipe!
I’m sooooo going trick-or-treating at your place! You are amazing with your baking skills, absolutely amazing.
Those look delicious!!!
These look great! Thank you for submitting these to the ATTYC event!
Snickers bars are definitely my favorite candy as well and I’m trying to stay away from them due to all the junk that’s in the ingredients list. I may have to make these some day (saving the recipe!).
Your husband is hilarious – mine would probably have the same reaction. 🙂
These look so yummy! 🙂 How many Kraft caramels did you use? Thanks.
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