Carmelitas are an easy, chewy bar cookie for serious caramel lovers! An oat cookie crust layered with salted caramel sauce and chocolate chips for a salted caramel chocolate flavor explosion!
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray and line your chosen pan with parchment.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine butter, sugar, vanilla, flour, oats, soda and salt. Mix on low speed to combine. You can also melt the butter and then mix the dough by hand.
Press half of the mix into the bottom of half sheet pan. Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until light golden brown. It will take closer to 10 in a ceramic dish and less than 8 in a metal dish.
While still warm spread caramel onto base and sprinkle with chocolate. Crumble remaining dough over the top. Bake again for approximately 4 minutes.
Cool completely before cutting.
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Notes
This will also fit into a 9x11 inch pan but the base will be a little thinner. Personally I would bump up the chocolate chips and salted caramel sauce by half just to make sure there is enough.