Chocolate Chip Cake Bars with Salted Chocolate Glaze.
If you’ve been hanging ’round these parts for a while, you know there are an abundance of the following items in our house: chicken, steak, chocolate, bacon, rice, chicken and more chicken. And chocolate chip cookies.
If Mr. How Sweet could eat one food for the rest of his life, it would probably be steak. But if he was granted a second choice, he would wash that steak down with chocolate chip cookies.
And if he was really lucky, he’d stand over the sink shoveling said cookies in his mouth and drinking Diet Coke.
But there are only so many cookies a girl can eat. And trust me, I can eat a lot of cookies.
So I decided to shake things up a bit… but take it slowly. After all, I didn’t need any tantrums. How about presenting Mr. How Sweet with a cake that tasted like a chocolate chip cookie?
With a bit of a salty glaze. Because if there is anything I love more than chocolate and peanut butter, it’s chocolate and sea salt.
Which probably explains why I chased a Snickers bar with three Pringles in my younger years. Courtesy of Mother Lovett’s snack cupboard of course. I started early.
I asked Mr. How Sweet how he felt about the cake bars, and he threw out a few “happy” obscenities that just aren’t appropriate for this family friendly blog. But he did say that they don’t really taste like cake, since he doesn’t love cake. And they obviously aren’t cookies… but they are gooey, almost pastry-like… and really, really delicious.
And they must have been great, because at 10 o’clock on Saturday night, they were gone. Like… completely gone. A mere 10 hours since I had first baked them. We had no guests. We don’t have pets. I guess we just have bottomless pits?
At least I can blame Mr. How Sweet on this one.
Chocolate Chip Cake Bars
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk, I used vanilla almond milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Salted Chocolate Glaze
- Salted Chocolate Glaze
- 8 ounce high-quality chocolate
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt, or more if you’d like
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Cream butter and sugars in the bowl and of electric mixer. Add vanilla, and add eggs one at a time. In separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add half of the dry ingredients to the butter mixture, alternating with the milk and ending with the dry ingredients. Toss chocolate chips with a tiny bit of flour and them fold them into the batter.
- Spray a 13 x 9 cake pan (or baking dish) with non-stick spray. Layer with parchment paper and spray again. Pour batter in pan and spread evenly. Bake for 35-45 minutes, or until knife inserted in middle comes out clean.
Salted Chocolate Glaze
- Melt chocolate in a double boiled or in the microwave (in 30 second increments). Stir in sea salt. Pour over chocolate chip cake.
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128 Comments on “Chocolate Chip Cake Bars with Salted Chocolate Glaze.”
Wow-not only does it look amazing, your pictures are crazy good! I’m about to stick a fork in the computer!
Thanks!
I totally concur with Kristina…actually your TITLE had me. God, chocolate-chips are my nemesis. What are you doing to my waistline?!! Between you and Jenna….I hate you and love you at the same time…Gah! :)
Yum! Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite, so I’m 100% positive I would devour these! Love chocolate & sea salt :)
Wishing I had scratch ‘sniff on my computer monitor! I love the smell of choc. chip cookies baking…mmmmm.
I agree, nothing better than salty and sweet together. Dee-lish as usual!
**drool**
**swoon**
Jessica, do you now realise that when you post such delights at this time, it’s 11pm here in Australia? And that I’ve already brushed my teeth? And that you give me sugary sugary dreams? (Actually, the last one isn’t bad. Please continue :P)
Salt = heaven. That is all.
Ummm at least it’s 7am like it is here! Which is worse?
I love chocolate and sea salt…best combination ever!
WOW, incredible looking recipe!!
The Husband could live solely off of chocolate chip cookies as well – I just baked my little heart out yesterday so he could eat some. I’m pretty sure the whole cake thing would go down well though – these look awesome!
Now you have me thinking about all things salt and chocolate. Like chocolate salt buttercream frosting. And chocolate salt truffles. And I have to go to work and not make these things.
I’ve made chocolate truffles with sea salt before. SO good!
Mmm, cake AND cookies in one. :) I love the addition of salt, because I put salt on top of everything. Seriously, everything.
oh man. i am in BIG trouble now…
Ooo, my husband would love this. He is obsessed with chocolate chip cookies!
Whoa those look fantastic! That picture with the glaze being poured on is amazing!
Wow those look amazing! I’m so with you on the chocolate and salty stuff, I used to dip salted/salt and vinegar crisps in chocolate mouse : )
I have always LOVED salt and vinegar chips.
I love salt and vinegar chips, too! They are addicting!
Oh. My. Gosh. That is all I can say right now, I’m speechless.
That glaze is to die for! Your husband reminds me of my friend’s — we could concoct the fanciest dessert and he just wants chocolate chip cookies. Maybe it’s an inner child thing.
Sounds and looks amazing. Love the glaze!
Looks really good. Now I must go work out because just looking at that made me gain weight!
Um, yum! I think I gain weight every time I read your blog! This is why I get up every morning and workout!
Yum! And so pretty too!
The glaze really puts these puppers over the top! I think I would like this better than cookies :)
Thank you for the congrats ;)
Amazing! Nothing better than a little sweet/salty…these bars look delicious!
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I need to make that Salted Chocolate Glaze and start putting it on everything
Drool!
I’ve actually never tried the sea salt and chocolate combo, but I have no doubts that it would be good. If these were in my home they’d be gone in a second!
Oh man… you are REALLY missing out. You must try it today!
Yes, chocolate and sea salt might just be the world’s best combination. Sigh.
Awesome pictures….you just made me hungry!!!!!
OMG… you had me at salted chocolate.
Sigh…the salted chocolate sauce sounds SO good. Love these bars!
All of your food and all of your recipes make me drool…savory and sweet. Mr. Sweet is one LUCKY man!!
I would LOVE these, but my husband is not a fan of the salt + chocolate. Guess there would be more for me :)
The glaze makes the bars look so pretty…they look delicious!
These look amazing, Jessica! Your photos are stunning!
Oh wow, these look pretty much amazing!!! I used to not be a big chocolate chip cookie fan, but have recently been converted. Meaning I really, really need to make this :D
Oh my goodness, this looks incredible!!
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Oh that last picture is UNREAL! They look amazzzzinggg. *drool*
i just stared at the screen for a good 2 minutes. Wow they look delicious!!!
Delicious!! You saved some calories using the almond milk ;)
Hahaha! Unintentional… of course.
These look amazing! Can’t wait to make these for my chocolate chip loving husband!
I would so eat that for breakfast. I wish I had some right now!
This looks amazing.
They remind me of the cookie brownies I get at work. :-) I can’t wait to make these.
Yum, Yum, Yum!!!
I am obsessed with salted chocolate! Amazing!
I grew up eating cookie bars because my mom refused to spend the time to scoop out cookies one by one. Now, I love them so much more than regular cookies and I try to make my regular cookies more cake-like. This is perfect!
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I have some espresso salt that would be perfect with this!!
Oh my. What is espresso salt?!
Haha I found it at a spice store here in Boston and made dark chocolate cookies with it! http://www.confessionsofachocoholic.com/chocolate/dark-chocolate-cookies-with-espresso-salt
Yummmm. I make something similar and call them blondies because they are so dense, but they are an awesome change from regular ol’ cookies!
Before I tasted them I thought they’d be like blondies too! But these ones are definitely more cake like and not as dense.