Chocolate Carmelita Bars comes from the Cookies divider in My Mom’s Recipe Box. The original is an assembled magazine clipping with a separate food photograph, visible staples, branded ingredients, and a printed yield of 32 bars.
Original Recipe Card
Ingredients
- 1-3/4 cups Quaker Oats (Quick or Old Fashioned, uncooked)
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 3/4 cup Butter Flavor Crisco, melted
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 1 cup (6 ounces) semi-sweet chocolate pieces
- One 12.5-ounce jar (1 cup) caramel ice cream topping
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
Directions
Heat oven to 350° F. Grease 13×9-inch baking pan. Combine first seven ingredients; mix well. Reserve 1 cup; press remaining onto bottom of prepared pan. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until light brown; cool 10 minutes. Top with nuts and chocolate pieces. Mix caramel topping and 1/4 cup flour until smooth; drizzle over chocolate pieces to within 1/4-inch of pan edges. Sprinkle with reserved oat mixture. Bake additional 18 to 22 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely.
Yield
32 BARS
Preservation Notes
This recipe is preserved as a printed clipping paired with a separate food photograph on a larger backing card. Staples remain visible in both pieces, and the overlapping arrangement, printed product imagery, paper color, and wear are preserved in the scan.
Notes From the Original
The clipping is numbered â5â and names Quaker Oats and Butter Flavor Crisco in the ingredient list. Those brand references and the capitalized yield â32 BARSâ are preserved exactly as printed.
About My Mom’s Recipe Box
This recipe is part of My Mom’s Recipe Box, an ongoing preservation project dedicated to my late mother’s original recipe collection. Every effort is made to preserve the original wording, organization, handwritten notes, typewritten cards, magazine clippings, corrections, and other details exactly as they appeared in her recipe box. When clarification is helpful, it is provided separately so the original recipe remains preserved.
