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Chocolate Chips in anything is an exceptionally good thing, am I right?

These OMG Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars have it going on…kind of like Stacy’s Mom. 🙂

Here are some fun facts about chocolate chips that you might find interesting from the ChocolaTess “vault of trivia“.

Besides the original semi-sweet chocolate chips, other varieties also include peanut butter, bittersweet, butterscotch, mint chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, cinnamon and even white and dark swirled chocolate chips. Yay!

Besides cookies, chocolate chips can also be used pancakes, cakes, pies, pastries, muffins, breads, ice cream, bars…I could go on, but the list is endless. Oh yeah! The more, the better! 🙂

Chocolate chips can be melted and used in sauces, glazes, ganache, frostings, brownies, cakes and many other recipes. They melt best at temps between 104 and 113 degrees Fahrenheit or 40 – 45 degrees Celsius.

Because most chocolate chips are designed to retain their shape when baking, they contain less cocoa butter than baking chocolate. So, it’s not a good idea to use chocolate chips in recipes that call for melted chocolate, because when melted, the chocolate becomes thick, muddy and grainy and it is very difficult to use.

Chocolate Chips are used in chocolate chip cookies, which are regarded as the most perfect and favorite American dessert, hands down. Here is my Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies and they are chocked full of chocolate chips! This Soft-Batch Chocolate Chip Cookie here, is the most popular on my blog. Watch for more to chocolate chip recipes to come…we can never have enough chocolate chip cookie recipes! No wonder it’s the most popular dessert in America

Hershey’s are among the top producers of chocolate chips. Some other popular brands include Ghirardelli, Nestle, Scharffen Berger, Trader Joe’s, See’s, Guittard, Callebaut and Sunspire. So, what’s your favorite brand? I love Ghirardelli!!

OMG Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars are gooey…of course, but wait until you taste them, they are freakin’ incredible! Made them especially for my husband, he’s had a rough couple of weeks. He loved them! 🙂

(Excellent for sharing or hoarding, you pick!)

Here’s the recipe for OMG Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars!

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OMG Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars

It is what it is! Lovely, complete me, Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars, iced with more chocolate! OMG!

Author: Kim Lange

Ingredients

Bottom Layer

1 butter or yellow cake mix
1 egg
1/2 cup butter melted

Cream Cheese Layer

1 8 oz pkg cream cheese softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 - 16 oz . box powdered sugar
1/2 cup butter melted
1 cup Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips

Icing

1 cup Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Light grease or spary with nonstick spray, a 9x13" baking pan.
Using a mixer, in a large bowl, add cake mix, egg, and butter and mix well.
Pat cake mix mixture into the bottom of prepared pan and set aside.
Using mixer and bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth, then add in the eggs and vanilla.
Add powdered sugar and beat very well, then reduce the speed of mixer and gradually add in melted butter and incorporate well.
Stir in the chocolate chips.
Pour cream cheese filling onto cake mixture and spread evenly.
Bake for 40-50 minutes.
You want to center to be a little gooey, so don't overbake.
Remove from oven and scatter the milk and semi-sweet chocolate chips on top of the bars and let sit several minutes to let them soften and get all melty. Then using a knife, spread the chocolate around covering the entire pan of bars.
Allow to cool for at least another hour and then cut into bars.