Chocolate Chip Bars

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) regular salted butter
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 3/4 cups all purpose four
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt (optional)
• 1 (12 ounce) package of semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup chopped pecans (optional- we omitted)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350.  Cream the butter and sugars, beat in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients and blend in. Add chips and nuts. Spread in a greased 13x9 inch baking pan and bake for 20 minutes or until bars appear set. Cool and cut into bars.

** We didn't need 12-15 servings, so we cut this in half to fit a 9 x 9 square baking dish and counted it as 9 servings.  

Recipe from:  http://packedtable.blogspot.com/2011/08/chocolate-chip-bars.html