 Today I'm making that most simple dessert ever and that is microwave oatmeal bars. But I'm going to call them chewy chocolate oatmeal bars. Okay. It's so simple. It's microwavable square glass dish and hopefully you should have one about this size. You're going to take a half stick of butter and not a half stick a whole stick a whole stick of butter and you're going to put it in your microwave and start to melt it while you're measuring out the rest of the ingredients. You know what I'm going to believe how easy this is and how good. Okay a stick of butter and I'm going to put it on two minutes probably one minute will do. So I'll have to once it starts popping and pinching the fit I'll get it out. Y'all know what I mean. You're going to be using a half cup of packed brown sugar. So we're going to go ahead and get that packed in the measuring cup. You're going to be using two cups of quick cookie notes and these are just Walmart quick cookie notes. You can use two cups of these. You're going to be using let's see a quarter cup of corn syrup. Of course we're going to have to use some chocolate chips before it's over and it says a whole cup of these and believe it or not that's it. That's all there is to it. We can throw in some vanilla flavoring just to be fun. Okay so let me rinse off my hands because I got this sugar on them. I'm going to bring y'all around here and let y'all watch me put it together because you have to press it into the bottom of this dish. There's our butter in our pan. Here goes our sugar half a cup packed and let's do our oatmeal. I mean our carousel syrup in there with this. Now the chocolate chips go on top later. They don't go in this part. I'm looking for my little spatulas. So we're going to get this out, stir this up good and then we're going to put in the oatmeal. So it's that stick of butter melted half a cup of brown sugar and let's go ahead and throw in some vanilla. Y'all want to? I say yep, yep, yep. Let's do it. Here you come. More vanilla. Now you can make this in a matter of seriously. It takes all of about at the most 10 minutes. Okay now we're going to put in two cups of the oatmeal. There's one and two. Now we're going to stir that up. Kids can do this recipe. This could be a kid recipe too. Your kids could make it. So it's so simple. Now you're just going to take it after you mix it up good. Make sure it's all sticky, okay? All sticky. Then you're just going to take it and smash it down into the bottom of your pan like so. Chewy chocolate oatmeal squares. So there you go. This quick oats cook really fast. Now we're going to put it in the microwave on two minutes. Into the microwave. Two minutes. As fast as your morning oatmeal, right? Got me a taste of home magazine cookbook from 2000. It was the year me and Chris got married and oh my gosh when I was first married to him I just love taste of home and so I went into Goodwill this week and I found a 2000, a 2001 and a 2002 annual recipe taste of home but they're the easy ones, the quick ones and I'm super excited. I went through it today and I tagged the ones I want to make for y'all and this is the first one. And this lady, let's see what her name was, says a mother who prepared delicious Thanksgiving special orange Christmas rolls on Christmas morning. She's from Ohio. Her name is Annette but they don't tell you what her last name is. So for short sweet ending to the brunch, she fixes these microwave oatmeal bars. She says my mother shared this speedy recipe with me. She notes there are not a lot of ingredients so these chewy treats are easy to fix in the microwave. Now two minutes uncovered on high. You rotate it in microwave at two minutes longer. Her microwave was only 850 watts and mine is 1100. So I'm sure mine would be good and done. Actually they're just cooking so they're puffing up. I'm gonna leave them alone and we're just gonna put them on two more minutes. They're bubbly and they've raised and then lowered and you can tell because I got a little edge around them. See it? So now what we're going to do is we're going to take a cup of chocolate chips. Oh, Timmy, the horses. Let's spread them out evenly. I just love to. Here's some chips. I let drop on the counter. I'll try to just throw them in there when I'm done. Thick right at the top and I'm gonna wipe off this sticky part right here by the time I wipe it off. They should be melting. Alrighty. Oh yeah. Look at that y'all. Look at that. Can y'all see that? It's wanting to stick. She didn't tell us about that part, did she? Here, Belle wants to stick to the spoon. So I guess it's very, it's very touchy with the spreading part. And I should have got out my little, um, same still spatula. Let me get it. And I'm gonna wet it just a little bit and we'll do it this way. That's it y'all. Cut a piece. Let's cut this part that I messed up and just taste it. I think it'd have been prettier if I had to just let those stay looking like they did come out of microwave, don't y'all? Chocolate and chewy oatmeal. Just don't tell anybody to use the microwave. They'll never know. And you're not gonna get any complaints on these, I promise. They are really good. Look at the ingredients, right? How can they not be good? Chris will love them. That man loves chocolate chips more than anybody I think I've ever made. This is like a gooey, chewy chocolate chip or chocolate oatmeal cookie that you make on top of the stove. Mmm, it's good. Sorry, I'm just eating it all. Whoa, that's a good recipe. You know what? I saw the same exact recipe a lady makes in the same book. She puts them in the oven. There's no need to put them in the oven. It's oatmeal. You can cook it in the microwave. I hope y'all enjoyed watching chocolate oatmeal bars. And I hope you go make some. You can make them in about a total of 10 minutes. Y'all have a blessed day and have a happy Friday. And thanks for watching. Call her Valley Cooks. Where we cook? Like mama did. Somebody's mama showed her this when she sat down. Bye y'all. Love ya. Yummy yum.