Dulce de Leche Pepita Bars

 

These delightfully delicious dulce de leche pepita bars come together in a snap. The beauty of these bars is they are a one-bowl delight. A few stirs, place your batter in a pan, a few delicious dollops of dulce de leche and into the oven they go. I’m excited to partner with Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk to bring you a fun Holiday recipe as part of their UnCookie Exchange campaign.

Guys! Texas is experiencing fall weather, and I love it. We Texans usually do not have the luxury of experiencing any fall weather and move straight to a two-week window of winter, so these current temperatures have me running to the kitchen to bake with the flavors of fall.

I enjoy baking for the holidays, I really do, but I often find it to be stressful and hurried. After Harvey, I find myself craving a fuss-free holiday season. A season of spending more time with the familia, curling up with a great book, and more and more family dinners.

This holiday season, I want to slow down, really enjoy the holidays and not feel like I am rushing from one event to the next. I’m craving long, sit-down dinners, early morning baking with my sisters and weekend brunches with plenty of warm, spiked mugs of coffee.

I’ve decided to take back my holidays and not fall into my old ways of replying yes to every dinner party invite or cookie exchange party. This fuss-free holiday season I plan to incorporate more fuss-free baking; which includes more laughter, more sharing of memories, and plenty of yummy baked items.

And with the crisp chill in the air, I find myself drawn to fall flavors, pepitas, dulce de leche and of course chocolate. When Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk reached out to me to join in their UnCookie Exchange campaign, with the focus being on making the holiday season less stressful and more delicious by sharing a fuss-free recipe, I was quick to jump at the chance to bake up something wonderfully easy to share with y’all.

After all, those who visit here know my obsession with whipping up uncomplicated baked treats featuring sweetened condensed milk. From cookies to ice cream to cakes, sweetened condensed milk makes the perfect base for many of my holiday recipes.

Introduced in 1856 by Gail Borden, Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk has been #1 in the sweetened condensed milk category for more than 147 years. Made with two simple ingredients, milk and sugar, Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk’s purpose is to add pure joy into people’s lives through its product.

Today I want to share with you an easy recipe featuring Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk plus pepitas, chocolate and dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is always a hit on the holidays with my family and friends, and I am ecstatic to see its rising popularity with home bakers – I have been receiving more and more requests to feature more recipes with dulce de leche.

These dulce de leche pepita bars come together in a snap. The beauty of these bars is they are a one-bowl delight. A few stirs, place your batter in a pan, a few delicious dollops of dulce de leche and into the oven they go.

When they’re warm from the oven, I lightly spread a few more dollops of dulce de leche over the bars, then sprinkled them again with pepitas. These bars are gooey, fudgy and crunchy all at the same time, and they’re super simple to make, which is always a plus. I’m excited to share these with you today, as I feel they fall perfectly into my fuss-fress holiday theme.

I hope you give them a try, as I know they would make a delightful addition to your holiday table.