Not sure it's what you're looking for, but the Nestle chocolate chip cookie recipe can be made as bars/pan cookies.

https://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/29677/original-nestle-toll-house-chocolate-chip-pan-cookie

I don't know what other ingredients you have on hand but there are always these:

Hello Dollies

Very easy to make and yummy - I leave out the nuts.

Could I leave out the coconut?

Worth a shot I think! I didn't even realize that the actual recipe has nuts in it. It seems like a very forgiving cookie.

I've made the Toll House cookies as bar cookies. They're very good. If you wait until they're partly cooked and all melty, take a table knife and stir the batter in the pan, and you'll get passable brownies.

You can always melt some down with half-&-half and use it as a fudge topping for ice cream.

I second the hello dolly cookies. Easy, and yummy. I don't like shredded coconut, at all, but it's good, and not too noticeable on them. But if you wish, yes, you can leave it out. I've always used pecans instead of walnuts, but again, either is fine.

I love Hello Dollies and seldom think to make them. I use a 9x9 pan when I make mine and cut them into 1" squares. If you omit the coconut, I'd use a smaller pan than the 9x13 recommended, or they'll be very thin.

If the issue is that you don't like coconut, you might try in this. My hubby does not like coconut but he loves these even with it.

Now I am craving these myself!

Party_music, when making the 9 X 9 pan do you halve the recipe?

That's a good question. There are only 2 of us, and we really aren't sweet eaters (well, my husband is but has been warned recently by his doctor to lay off the sugar because of his bloodwork). I thought about melting some of the chocolate chips and dipping a banana in it a little at a time...

You could also use an 8x8 pan if halving the recipe. I do that when making things like lemon bars for just the two of us (my recipe calls for a 9x13 pan). Works great. An 8x8 pan is a little bigger than you need for half, so the baking time will obviously decrease. I'd use an even smaller pan if omitting the coconut. Just watch the baking time carefully.

No, I don't halve the recipe. I got the recipe many years ago from a friend and it calls for a 9x9 pan.

You could add the chips to any muffin recipe. You could mix them into vanilla ice cream (or chocolate ice cream if you like that much chocolate). If you have room in your freezer, you can store the chips for a long time.

Chocolate dipped strawberries!

Wow, what a dilemma! (wink) Of course, I'd have no problem using those chocolate chips, sometimes I just eat them and don't put them in anything and occasionally I make a "mocha" by stirring them into my hot coffee along with some milk. The Princess adds whipped cream.

Things I do put chocolate chips into that are not chocolate chip cookies:

Scones, which are not extremely sweet by themselves.

Hot chocolate or "mocha"

Chocolate chip muffins or quickbread

Buckeyes, those peanut butter candies dipped into chocolate

Pancakes (but only for the kids, I don't like them in pancakes)

Puppy Chow, but it's messy and VERY sweet

Brownies

Ganache

Bread pudding

I'm sure there are more, I just have to think about it!

I do like the idea of the strawberries and bananas. I used to freeze banana slices, then dip them into melted chocolate and refreeze them on sheet trays. They could get packaged into ziplocks or freezer containers and when the girls wanted a treat they could take out a couple. I figured at least they were getting a bite of fruit with their chocolate!

Annie

Here's my go to when I need a treat and don't want to take the time to do much....fast easy and good.

Cookies blond brownies

2 2/3 cups sifted flour

1 tsp salt

2 tsps BP

Melt 2/3 cup butter, add

1 lb brown sugar and allow to cool

Beat in 3 eggs

Add one 7 oz pkg chocolate chips
1 tsp vanilla

Spread in greased jelly roll pan And bake 350 for 20 to 25
minutes…..cool and cut into squares.
Mix all in one pan….buy a 2 pound bag of brown sugar and eye-ball half of it.
Melt butter in 2 qt sauce pan, add sugar, stir and allow to cool
measure flour, add salt and Baking Powder and mix

Beat the eggs ( with a spoon) into the sugar butter mix, add
the flour…add the chocolate chips and nuts if desired….turnout into a jelly
roll pan and bake….don’t over bake!

Makes about 24 2 inch squares.

If you don't want to bake.... When I want something quick and easy, I melt chocolate chips in the microwave with a little bit of Coconut oil or Crisco, then add 'stuff' and make drop candies. The stuff I might add includes nuts, raisins, dried cranberries, brickle chips, Rice Krispies, etc. etc.. Then I drop them onto waxed paper in clusters and chill in fridge to set quicker.

Party - I could handle that. Thanks!!

Linda

omg ... a pound of brown sugar ... wow

diabetic's dream ... or nightmare ... I feel a coma coming on

I don't use a pound of brown sugar in a year.

I had thought about mole or adobo sauce but most all the recipes I found call for unsweetened/bitterweet chocolate but maybe you could play with a recipe like this:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/223261/authentic-mole-sauce/

I've never had mole. I know some people put chocolate in their chili. I have not yet made the banana cake. DH has bloodwork scheduled on Tuesday morning. I didn't want to tempt him with anything sugary until then. It's going to be cool out here this week, so baking won't be a problem.

Speaking of unsweetened baking chocolate... why isn't it sold in stores anymore??? I've been searching locally for about a year and nobody stocks it. Is it just a local thing?

I haven't bought any in a long time ... I'll have to look next time I'm at the store. I did find it on Amazon but the only quantities they show as currently available it would take my granddaughter's lifetime to use it all up!!!