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Crème Brûlée Cookie Bars

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Tablespoon Kitchens
Updated Sep 20, 2016
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Crème brûlée walks into a bar—a COOKIE bar. (See what we did there?) Don’t worry, this easy at-home riff on everyone’s favorite restaurant dessert is so good, it more than makes up for that lame joke.

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Crème Brûlée Cookie Bars

  • Prep Time 20 min
  • Total 4 hr 20 min
  • Servings 24
  • Ingredients 10
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Ingredients

Cookie Base

  • 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
  • 2 tablespoons Gold Medal™ all-purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup butter, melted
  • 1 egg

Custard Layer

  • 5 egg yolks, room temperature
  • 2 eggs, room temperature
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • Additional 1/3 cup granulated sugar, for topping

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 325°F. Spray bottom and sides of 13x9-inch pan with cooking spray. (Do not use glass; it cannot withstand the heat from the kitchen torch and may break.)
  • Step 
    2
    In large bowl, stir sugar cookie mix, flour, melted butter and egg until soft dough forms. Press evenly in bottom of pan. Bake about 10 minutes or until just set. Transfer to cooling rack to cool slightly. Reduce oven temperature to 300°F.
  • Step 
    3
    Meanwhile, in medium bowl, beat egg yolks, eggs and 1/2 cup sugar with whisk until thick. Beat in whipping cream and vanilla. Pour over cookie base in pan.
  • Step 
    4
    Bake 50 minutes to 1 hour or until custard layer is just set. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 1 hour; cover and refrigerate 2 hours.
  • Step 
    5
    Just before serving, sprinkle top of custard layer evenly with 1/3 cup sugar. Holding kitchen torch 3 to 4 inches from custard, caramelize sugar on custard by heating with torch about 2 minutes, moving flame continuously over sugar in circular motion. The sugar is partially melted at this point. Keep moving flame continuously over sugar in circular motion until sugar is melted and light golden brown. Let stand at room temperature about 1 minute or until caramelized sugar hardens before cutting into bars. Cut into 6 rows by 4 rows.

Nutrition

240 Calories
14g Total Fat
2g Protein
26g Total Carbohydrate
18g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Bar
Calories
240
Calories from Fat
130
Total Fat
14g
22%
Saturated Fat
8g
41%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
100mg
34%
Sodium
100mg
4%
Potassium
45mg
1%
Total Carbohydrate
26g
9%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
18g
Protein
2g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
10%
10%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
2%
2%
Iron
2%
2%
Exchanges:
1 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 1/2 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
2
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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