Chocolate Bars Microwave Version Recipes

MICROWAVE CHOCOLATE CHIP BARS

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, cream butter and brown sugar.
• Add egg, milk and vanilla; mix well.
• Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture.
• Stir in 1/2 cup chocolate chips and walnuts (if using).
• Spread into greased 8-inch square microwave-safe dish.
• Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips.
• Microwave, uncovered, on high for 5 minutes or until bars test done, rotating a quarter turn each minute.
• Cool before cutting.

CHOCOLATE BARS (MICROWAVE VERSION)

Steps:

• 1. Combine flour, baking powder, powdered sugar and orange or lemon peel in a bowl.
• 2. Add butter. Blend with hands until mixture resembles cornmeal. You may do this in a food processor - process until mixture forms a soft ball.
• 3. Press mixture evenly over bottom of a microsafe baking dish. Place dish on a microsafe meat rack or on a microsafe platter.
• 4. Microwave for 4 minutes at HIGH power. Remove from microwave oven.
• 5. Sprinkle chocolate chips all over hot crust. As chocolate melts, spread evenly over pastry.
• 6. Combine all remaining ingredients in a bowl. Mix thoroughly. Pour mixture over chocolate layer.
• 7. Microwave for about 8 minutes at MEDIUM HIGH power, turning dish once if your microwave is not a rotating one.
• 8. Let cake stand for a few minutes. Cool in pan. Dust with powdered sugar. Cut into bars or thin wedges depending on dish used.