Recipe #3 Chiparoos

This recipe was inspired by a cookie bar recipe from a company that sells condensed milk.  It's a very easy recipe.  It only takes about 10 minutes to prep and about 30-35 minutes to bake.  The original recipe had only one kind of chocolate chip and coconut and nuts.  I'm not a fan of coconut, so I changed it to include 3 different varieties of chips and moved the nuts to the crust.  Have fun with this one, it's a very quick, very sweet treat for bake sales or sweet tooth cravings.

Difficulty Level:  Easy

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter (1 stick) or margarine, melted
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cups finely chopped pecans
1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup butterscotch chips

Directions:
Heat oven to 350 degrresF.  Coat 13 x 9 inch cake pan with vegetable cooking spray.  In a medium mixing bowl, combine butter, graham cracker crumbs, and pecans.  Mix until all crumbs are moistened.  Pour into pan and press down firmly with the back of a spoon or measuring cup to create a firm crust.  Pour the entire can of condensed milk evenly over the crust mixture.  Layer evenly with all of the chips.  Press chips into milk with a fork.  Bake for 30-35 minutes or until lightly browned.  Cool completely and cut into bars to serve.

What I learned from this recipe:
- Chocolate chips are an easy thing to change.  There are so many varieties of chips available, that it is easy to give your favorite chip recipe an overhaul even using the same amount of chips called for in the recipe.
- You can always take out ingredients that you don't like and add others.  Since I don't like coconut, there are many other things I could have used in this recipe.  Also if you prefer a different kind of nut, you could use that instead of the nut in a recipe.  Most nuts cook the same way, so that is an easy change that can be made.

It really felt good to have a recipe work the first time.  Have you had any recipe failures?  Did you do anything to fix it, or did you just throw it out?