Chocolate Revel Bars

When I typed this title, the auto-fill filled it in. So I must have posted about these yummy cookies before. But I can't find the post, so I'm going to do it again. These are really, really good cookies, and I made them yesterday. The recipe calls for sweetened condensed milk, which I do not have in my cupboards, so I made some following Crystal's recipe*. It worked out just fine. I will never buy sweetened condensed milk again.

1 cup butter or margarine

2 cups brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon soda

a teaspoon salt

3 cups quick or rolled oats

Mix above ingredients and press 1/2 in a greased and floured 11x17 pan (see Hint, below). Mix and heat up until melted:

1 can sweetened condensed milk*

1 12 oz. package chocolate chips

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons margarine

Add 2 teaspoons vanilla and 1 cup nuts if desired.

Pour over oatmeal mixture. Crumble other 1/2 of oatmeal on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

*Sweetened Condensed Milk in a Blender

In a blender combine for several minutes until very smooth:

1/2 cup hot water

1 cup non-instant powdered milk OR 2 cups instant powdered milk

1 cup sugar

1 tablespoon butter

Hint: When pressing the mixture into the pan, I use a piece of wax paper to keep the dough from sticking to my fingers.