Holy Candy Cookie Bars!

Yesterday I made one of the most chocolaty, most fattening recipes I have ever made. The recipe just sounded so good and had been bookmarked for months so I decided to give in and make it for a friend's birthday. What was this recipe? Basically a candy bar in a cookie bar form, otherwise known as Crunchy Caramel Reeses Cookie Bars from Picky Palate.

Ingredients:
1 roll refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 cup crushed pretzels
3 cups mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
10 Kraft caramels
1 tbsp fat-free milk
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
Unwrap peanut butter cups and caramels, set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8x8 baking dish with foil (I used a disposable foil baking dish so skipped this part) and spray with cooking spray. Cut cookie dough roll in half and press half into bottom of baking dish. Layer with pretzels. Cut PB cups in half and layer over pretzels. Melt caramels and milk in a microwave safe bowl until melted, about 1-2 minutes in microwave. Pour caramel over PB cups.
Crumble (or spread) remaining cookie dough evenly over top the PB cups. Bake for approximately 22 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. Let cool completely. Melt chocolate chips in microwave until smooth, drizzle over top of bars.

The original recipe said it made 9 bars, but I cut this into 12 and that still ends up being about 8 pts/bar. Obviously though, this isn't a WW friendly dessert, but that's ok because it was a huge success! My friend really liked it as did the other dozen of guys sitting around watching football. It was quite cliche, me walking in with baked goods at a football watch party, but it was a winner!

Shortly after this they were completely gone!