I'm sorry they didn't fulfill your cookie bar dreams. Maybe these will (I couldn't find the recipe the other day): White Chip Lemon Bars Cookie type: bar This is another favorite from Hersheys Best Loved Recipes, 2000. These cookies are yummy, tart and sweet all at the same time. This recipe makes 36 bars. Ingredients 1 ¼ cups flour 1 cup sugar 1/3 cup butter, softened ¾ cup white chocolate chips 2 eggs ¼ cup lemon juice 2 teas grated lemon peel powdered sugar Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir together 1 cup flour and ¼ cup sugar in a medium bowl. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Press mixture into the bottom of a 9 inch square baking pan. Bake 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven and sprinkle white chocolate chips over crust. Stir together eggs, lemon juice, lemon peel, remaining ¼ cup flour and remaining ¾ cup sugar in a medium bowl. Carefully pour over chips and crust. Bake 25 minutes or until set. Cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cut into bars.

Where are all our Canadian friends????? My Goodness, the BEST candy bar in the world is a Mars bar. Not a USA one. I think I kept three of them in my fridge, eating one per year, after our trip to Alaska, thru BC and the Yukon. Sadly, they are gone, but the memory lingers on! Chocolate as only the 'blokes' make, with caramel....just heavenly. Good thing I live a long way 'south of the border'! Meanwhile...... Chocolate is my fav.... coffee second, like TJ's Coffee Rio.

Holiday cookies? My favorites are: -The iced sugar cookies that my sleezeball cousin makes, but since we don't associate anymore, that's history. -The "snowballs". The ones I make are Franco Palumbo's recipe and are great. -Blondies with and without cashews on top. -Rosettes & Krumkake. I'm Scandinavian. Lefse's not a cookie but it goes with the season! So here's a few favorite recipes, though not necessarily "holiday" treats: Graham Cracker Chewies These are amazingly good and simple to make. They are a nice alternative to brownies. Recipe from the Nantucket Open House Cookbook. Crust 1 1/3 cups graham cracker crumbs 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature 2 tablespoons all purpose flour Topping 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1/3 cup graham cracker crumbs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 large eggs beaten . Preheat oven to 350° Prepare the crust: Mix the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, butter and flour in a mixing bowl until moist and crumbly. Press the mixture firmly and evenly in the bottom of a 9 inch square baking pan. Bake until lightly browned, about 20 minutes. Prepare topping: Stir all the ingredients together until blended. Spread the topping over the baked crust and bake for 20 minutes. Let cool completely, then cut into 16 squares. Note: Double the recipe and use a 13 x 9" pan. You won't regret it. Haven't tried these yet but they get rave reviews: SILLY TOFFEE SQUARES 1/2 cup flour 3/4 cup Rice Krispies cereal 1/4 tsp. baking soda Pinch of salt 1/3 cup packed brown sugar 1/3 cup butter melted 1 (14 oz.) can sweetened condensed milk (NOT Evaporated Milk!) 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1-1/4 cups Rice Krispies cereal Combine first 6 ingredients and press into 8-inch square pan and bake at 350° F. for 10 minutes. In heavy nonstick saucepan combine condensed milk, 1/2 cup butter and 1/2 cup brown sugar. Bring to a low boil and cook 5 minutes, stirring continuously. Be careful not to burn. Remove from heat and pour over baked crust. Melt chocolate chips over low heat. Stir in remaining cereal until well coated. Using two forks spread over caramel layer. Chill and cut into squares. And a longtime favorite: EZ BARS AKA 7-layer bars are the epitome of easy (hence their alias, EZ bars). If you follow the traditional recipe, you don't even need a bowl. You melt butter straight in the baking pan in a preheated oven, then sprinkle on the other layers. On top of the butter goes a layer of graham cracker crumbs (not mixed in, just sprinkled on), chopped nuts, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, coconut, and finally sweetened condensed milk is poured over the whole shebang. It's baked until just starting to brown on the top, all bubbly and delicious, which takes about 25 minutes. Nothing could be easier to bake. Very flexible too. I omit the coconut. You can use cookie crumbs like vanilla wafers or even crumbled sandwich cookies I imagine. Various nuts, combination of nuts, one kind of chips or combined kinds of chips. Doesn't really matter, they're greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

At first I thought you meant your favorite bar down the street went up in flames or something. I was going to say this really should be posted in the Grieving section. ;-) But glad to hear you got it sorted out. Btw, in Firefox if you right click on the title bar and choose "Customize" you will get all kinds of choices to manage what does and doesn't show. I put the Bookmark icon up at the top (dragged it up there) because sometimes the Cntrl + B keyboard shortcut doesn't work.