Butterscotch Fudge Bars

This recipe comes, unchanged, from the 2008 cookbook Taste of Home Dinner on a Dime.

• Ready In: 37 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 12 bars

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup unsalted butter, cubed
• 1 (1 ounce)  unsweetened chocolate square
• 2⁄3 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1  egg
• 1  teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1  cup all-purpose flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  dash salt
• 1  cup  butterscotch chips

Directions

1. In a microwave, melt butter & chocolate, then stir until totally melted & blended.
2. Stir in brown sugar until dissolved, then cool to lukewarm, before stirring in the egg & vanilla.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, then grease a 9" square baking pan.
4. In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder & salt, then stir this mixture into the chocolate mixture until blended.
5. Stir in the butterscotch chips before spreading the entire mixture into the prepared baking pan.
6. Bake 22 to 27 minutes or until a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs.
7. Cool in the pan on a wire rack before cutting & serving.