 Hey guys, welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today to share a quick and easy recipe for chocolate chip pecan bars. So let me show you what you're going to need and by the way of course I'll make sure to leave the recipe in the description box. You are going to need some flour, butter, corn syrup, eggs, some semi-sweet chocolate chips or if you prefer milk chocolate that is fine too. You're going to need some brown sugar, you're going to need some pecans. Now I am using candied pecans. You do not have to use candied pecans or regular pecans will work just fine and you're going to need some white sugar. So if you want to see how this quick and easy recipe comes together stay tuned. All right so first we're going to start off making the crust and in my bowl I have my butter and as you can see it's softened butter and I am just adding in my brown sugar and I'm going to mix this until it is well incorporated and now I am just going to add in my flour a little at a time and as you can see the mixture is nice and crumbly and that is what you are looking for. So I'm just scraping the sides of the bowl here just to make sure I've got everything well incorporated and I do have my oven preheated to 350 degrees and so now I'm going to take my 9x13 pan and I have it lined with non-stick foil and then what I did I took the butter wrapper and I just smeared it over the foil. Now I didn't have to do that because it is non-stick foil. If you don't have non-stick foil parchment paper of course is perfect or if you don't have either one you can just use your pan just make sure that you butter it very very well. So I'm just going to drop the crust mixture in and I'm just going to use my hands to pat it out and then I'm going to bake this for half an hour or until it's nice and golden brown and then you're going to need to let your crust cool completely. So you know you're going to have to let it cool you're not going to be able to pour the mixture on top of it if the crust is hot. So this dessert does take a little bit of planning you could even do the crust the night before or the day before I should say if you want it to. All right so I've got everything all patted down like I said I'm going to pop this up in the oven for about half an hour and then I'll be back. Okay so my crust is out of the oven I let it cool for probably about an hour and 15 minutes I did end up baking it for half an hour. You may see some little clumps of brown sugar in there I just didn't mix it well enough so that was my fault but that's what the little brown speckles are. So now we are going to make the filling to go on top of the crust. All right so I've got my eggs here and they are at room temperature I'm going to add my white sugar in and then I'm just going to mix this up going to add in my corn syrup and next I'm just going to fold in my pecans and like I said you can use regular pecans you don't have to use praline pecans that's just what I like. I'm just going to fold these in and I did kind of give a rough chop to my pecans you don't have to if you want to leave them whole you can. So I've got the pecans in there and now I'm just going to add my chocolate and that is all there is to it. So now I'm going to bring my crust back over and I'm just going to pour this mixture over the crust. Okay so I am going to pop these in the oven my oven is at 350 I'm going to bake these for about half an hour or until they're nice and golden brown. Okay so here are the bars I ended up baking these for about 40 minutes and then I let them cool completely and then I just lifted them out of the pan with the foil so here it is and I have half of the bars left I started cutting them and plating them so that you guys could see what they look like so I'm going to get a close-up for you guys and you can see that buttery crunchy crust it's so good and then you can see all of the chocolate and all of the pecans this is a really rich bar a little bit goes a long ways I like to serve mine warm with a little bit of ice cream or whipped topping. So I hope you guys really enjoyed this video if you did please give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so thanks so much for watching and we'll see you next time