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.
Notes
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128 Comments on “Chocolate Chip Cake Bars with Salted Chocolate Glaze.”
It’s 8:00 and I want this for breakfast. Would that be a problem?
Wow wow wow!!!
These look soooo good. I’ve never tried salted chocolate, but it looks like I will be soon- these are going on my must-bake-soon list. Thanks for the recipe and beautiful pictures!
Wow! I need this today, Must have it. I think this is my next sweet recipe for the week to make. :)
Yummy! I need to make these. You always have such amazing recipes!
Love the salty and sweet combo. I’m a big fan of salted pretzles dipped in chocolate and chocolate chips in salty popcorn. Love it!
This looks like pure perfection, but I bet you could even use various chips to change it up…like, peanut butter chips, for example…
Gooey cake with salty chocolate glaze? I can’t imagine anything more wonderful right now!
How come my fork won’t go through this computer!!! Gimme!!! :)
omg. I’m salivating everywhere….at work.
I too, have a bottomless pit. If you figure out where to disregard yours…kindly let me know.
That cake looks like heavan! I love it ;)
Treadmill = sweat. So these are the perfect recovery food because of the salt…yes/yes?
I love how you think.
Why, why, WHY must you put that recipe up in the morning?? I’m trying to lose weight here! :-)
Could you please teleport a slice of that to me for my birthday?? ;)
How I wish I could! Happy Birthday! :)
These look amazing!
I die. #1 for this crazy-delicious dessert that is neither cookie or cake. #2 for Mr. How Sweet. When you were talking about cookies in the beginning, I was like Waaait, what about the DIET COKE?! Haha…should have known you wouldn’t leave that out ;)
Mmm those look pretty amazing even if they’re not cake like. I would love a chocolate chip cake with chocolate frosting right now – thanks for that lol
hmm…this is a great idea! Like a big fluffy cake cookie! :)
Oh mama. This looks absolutely divine. YUM.
In case anyone is wondering, this recipe makes approximately 1 serving.
You are like a magician with your chocolate. If I didn’t have plans tonight, I’d totally be leaving work and immediately making these. (Incidentally, I bought all the ingredients for your white bean hash at the grocery store last night…can’t wait to make it!)
Mmmm… enjoy!
you’re awesome. you’re the jam, the bomb, the monaaayyyy.
and i love the fact that it’s not cakelike. cookies > cake any day.
i’m suddenly reminded of my childhood fave, the chocolate chip cookie cake. woohoo!
i need you to be my personal chef fyi :) and chocolate is fine for a major food group!
How do you eat all these delicious things without looking like one of my beloved hippoes?
never a day goes by that i am not in love w/ something on your screen that i see. DELISH!
Stop. Just stop. I’m craving chocolate right now, and I blame you!!
Kidding, kind of :) Needless to say, these look AMAZING!
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So delicious and creative – as always :)
Can I move in with you? :P
Sure! :)
These are beautiful, just like all of your pictures….but this is something that is totally right up my alley. As in, I could go for one right now and totally eat too many after that!
Oh my gosh–that batter! It looks like fluffy butter quicksand. The kind of quicksand that I would eagerly sink into so that I could eat my way out.
I’m surprised you haven’t made a bacon brownie yet! :)
I made bacon blondies: http://www.howsweeteats.com/2010/06/11/peanut-butter-bacon-blondies/
Does that count? ;)
Beautiful!
That chocolate sauce looks like the perfect compliment to the cake! YUM!
OH.MY.GOODNESS. Definitely making these this weekend.
This one is a must-make for sure!
Oh, yum! Of course I love the chocolate chip cake bars, but the salted chocolate glaze? Yes, yes! I love all things salted and chocolate.
This looks wonderful! As always!
shut.the.front.door! This looks so amazing.
See, this is my issue with baking at home…..we eat, eat, eat all the cookies, cake or loaves in a day. Not good.
The funny thing is I am starting up a stinking bakery! Better workout harder :|
xxoo
You are?! Yay! How fun is that?
Its my passion and i love it, but it is boat loads of work.
We are starting online first with selling to local shops and then will open our own location later this year :)
All gluten-free and vegan…..pure joy!
xxoo
Hey Jessica! I’ve read your blog for a while, but just created my own so I thought I would comment.
But YUM. That’s all I can say. I’m not a big fan of cake either. But choco chip cookies? YES PLEASE! :) I need to make these a.s.a.p.
Thank you Jessica, you make me feel so much better after eating cookies, a cupcake, AND ice cream.
May I come visit you and help you eat all of your yummy treats? We can exercise afterwards too if you like.
Your blog needs to come with a warning label to not read late at night! I now have to go look for sweets!!!
<3 youuu!
I want one of these bars for breakfast, ASAP!
Have you tried the Lindt Excellence dark chocolate bar with a touch of sea salt? It’s yummy too!
Oh heck yes. I should buy stock in those things.
Not a big fan of chocolate with salt but that looks amazing! Beautiful pics!
These look awesome I can’t wait to try them!
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I made these last night, except I omitted the glaze for powdered sugar. They are A-FREAKING-MAZING. Thank you for sharing!!