This recipe comes from a promo sheet by Nestle Milk Chocolate Morsels, date unknown. Recipe is typed below along with a scanned copy.
Milk Chocolate Pecan Bars
COOKIE BASE:
1 cup unsifted flour
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 measuring teaspoon baking soda
1/4 measuring teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter, softened
TOPPING:
One 11-½-oz. pkg. (2 cups) Nestle Milk Chocolate Morsels
2 eggs
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 measuring teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 measuring teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped pecans, divided
COOKIE BASE: Preheat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar, baking soda and salt; mix well. Cut in butter with pastry blender or two knives until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Press evenly into greased 13″ x 9″ x 2″ baking pan.
Bake at: 350°F.
Time: 10 minutes
Pour Topping over cookie base; sprinkle with 1/2 cup pecans.
Bake at: 350°F.
Time: 20 minutes
Cool; cut into 2″ x 1″ bars.
TOPPING: Melt over hot (not boiling) water, Nestle Milk Chocolate Morsels; remove from heat. In small bowl, combine eggs, brown sugar, vanilla extract and salt; beat 2 minutes at high speed on electric mixer. Add melted chocolate; mix well. Stir in 1/2 cup pecans.
Makes: 4-1/2 dozen 2″ x 1″ bars