CHOCOLATE BUTTER PECAN BARS
1½ cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder ½ cup butter or margarine 2 cups brown sugar, packed 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 1¼ cups chopped pecans ¾ cup chocolate chips
Heat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour 11 by 7 by 1½ inch pan. Sift flour with baking powder. Melt butter in saucepan over low heat; add sugar; bring to boil, stirring. Cool until lukewarm. Drop in eggs one at a time, mixing well. Mix in vanilla, flour mixture and ½ cup of the pecans. Turn into pan. Sprinkle ½ cup chocolate chips, either whole or chopped fine, over the mixture and then sprinkle remaining pecans over that. Bake until done, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool in pan then cut in squares.
These cookie cuts can be made either by hand or electric mixer.