Gluten-Free Carmelitas
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Serves: 12
 
Ingredients
  • 2 cups gluten-free oats
  • ½ cup oat flour (how to make your own oat flour)
  • ¾ cup brown rice flour
  • ½ cup tapioca flour
  • ¼ cup potato starch
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum or guar gum
  • 1 cup coconut palm sugar or brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter or dairy-free margarine, softened
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup nuts, chopped
  • 1½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used dairy-free chips)
  • 1 cup caramel sauce (homemade caramel sauce recipe)
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 13 x 9-inch pan.
  2. Combine oats, flours, potato starch, xanthan gum, sugar, butter, baking soda and salt in large bowl; cut the butter into the oat mixture until it is well blended. Reserve 3 cups. Press remaining mixture into bottom of prepared pan.
  3. Bake 10 minutes or until light brown.
  4. Sprinkle chocolate chips over baked crust. Place pan back in the oven for 1 minute to melt the chocolate chips. Gently spread the chocolate with a spatula.
  5. Sprinkle nuts over chocolate chips.
  6. Drizzle caramel over chocolate chips and nuts, but try not to let the caramel touch pan edges. Sprinkle with reserved oat mixture.
  7. Return to oven. Bake 20 minutes or until golden brown. Place pan on cooling rack to cool. Cool completely before cutting.
Recipe by Premeditated Leftovers™ at https://premeditatedleftovers.com/?p=15435