Hershey's Chocolate Pecan Bars

Chocolate bars with a pecan pie-like topping.

Recipe Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
1 cup cold butter or margarine
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

Cooking Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (325° for glass dish).
2. Stir together flour, sugar and cocoa in large bowl.
3. Cut in butter until crumbly. Press firmly onto bottom of ungreased 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking pan.
4. Bake 15 minutes; remove from oven.
5. In medium bowl, beat sweetened condensed milk, egg and vanilla until well blended. Stir in pecans.
6. Spread mixture evenly over hot baked crust. Return to oven.
7. Bake 25 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
8. Cut into bars. Cover; store in refrigerator.

Makes about 36 bars.

Recipe and photograph courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens, and reprinted with permission of The Hershey Company. © The Hershey Company.