Rolo Cookie Bars are a delicious dessert for any occasion. This recipe is both delicious and super easy to make!
Easy Rolo Cookie Bars
These Rolo Cookie Bars have a classic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie taste with an amazing ooey, gooey twist. In all seriousness, these have been some of my favorite cookies to come out of the oven in quite some time! If you’re a cookie person in the slightest, I know you are going to adore these just as much as I have.
Tips For Making Rolo Cookie Bars
- Don’t try and make these into cookies. The caramel melts out everywhere, and it’s pretty disastrous.
- If you eat these warm, they will be just as ooey and gooey as they look in the pictures. However, if you want to cut them up and plate them, no worries! Once they’ve cooled to about room temp, they are very easy to cut for serving or even to package.
- Rolos are the best caramel filled chocolate candies for baking. Don’t try to sub with any other caramel filled chocolate candy, because they don’t hold up as well. In my experience, the caramel bakes out and incorporates with the cookie dough. Which is yummy, but you would miss out on all the pockets full of caramel!
More Easy Cookie Bar Recipes
- Best Sugar Cookie Bars
- Sugar Cookie Lemon Bars
- Caramel Cheesecake Cookie Bars
- Cheesecake Cookie Bars Recipe
- Candy Cane Cocoa Cookie Bars
Tools Used To Make Rolo Bars
- 9 x 13 baking pan
- A kitchen mixer – I love my KitchenAid mixer
- Parchment paper
How To Make Rolo Cookie Bars
This recipe will yield approximately 20 cookie bars.
Rolo Cookie Bars Recipe
Servings: 1 Bar
Rolo Cookie Bars are a delicious dessert for any occasion. This recipe is both delicious and super easy to make!
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 1/2 cups old fashioned oats
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup Rolo Bites candy, already unwrapped
- Optional: 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375ºF.
- Prepare a 9x13 baking dish by lining it with parchment paper. If necessary, foil can be used, but it must be sprayed with cooking spray.
- Mix together (using a stand mixer or by hand) the butter, brown sugar, and eggs.
- Mix in the milk, vanilla, flour, baking soda, salt, and oats.
- Stir in the chocolate chips, Rolos, and pecans.
- Spread the dough in the prepared baking dish.
- Bake for approximately 20-25 minutes.
- The edges should be set and golden brown, and the tops of the bars should look mostly "dry."
- Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before cutting.
Nutrition
Calories: 178 kcal
Other Notes
Ashton, from Something Swanky, was a baking contributor several years ago on Somewhat Simple.
I’m so disappointed. I tried this recipe twice. Using exactly what you listed and following your instructions. They both came out more cake like than cookie. So so disappointing.
I am so sorry it didn’t work out for you – that is so disappointing!
These look delicious! Any idea if they freeze well? I’d love to make them ahead of time to get a jump on holiday baking.
I’ve never frozen them, but if you try it, I’d love to hear how it worked for you!
Made these last night for a fundraiser bake sale. They are just to die for! Like chewy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with caramel!! Yum yum yum!!!!
That’s awesome! I’m so glad they were a hit!
Could Rolo’s be substituted with any other similar candy, such as Snickers or a chopped Heath bar? (Lots of Halloween candy leftover!)
They turned out pretty good with the Delightfuls but they were smaller than I expected so not a huge pocket of caramel but still very tasty!
Well that is good to hear! At least the caramel didn’t turn out rock-hard or anything! Thanks for stopping by!
Mine are in the oven now! Can’t wait!! I know you said not to stray from real Rolos but I just bought the new Nestle Toll Toll House “Delightfuls” caramel filled baking morsels; hope they work well too
How did they turn out Keri? I am curious to know if the “Delightfuls” worked!
what can i use instead of rollo bites candy in India i do not get them please let me know some common alternative
zarina
I am not sure- perhaps any small chocolate candy with caramel would work.
This recipe looks so delicious! I am a huge fan of Rolos so I will definitely try this recipe out! Thanks for sharing!
These were underwhelming.
Might try 1 more time.
I used the mini rolo’s that are already unwrapped.
Next time will try the full size.
Hi! I made these and used the recipe above and found that they lacked a little sweetness. I compared your “oatmeal mix” recipe to the above recipe and found that the Rolo recipe has no white sugar. Since I didn’t have the oatmeal mix, done I followed the above recipe. Please let me know. THANK YOU!
I am beyond excited to bake these! They just look too delicious to not try out!
YUM! I just have two questions after reading: If you use your quick oatmeal cookie mix that is already pre-made, how much would you use? and second, could you make them into cookies if you just wrapped the dough around one rolo? Thanks for sharing this great recipe!
Hi, I just made these, So good! Mine didn’t come out quite as yummy looking as yours. Mine are more like brownies, still taste amazing, just trying to figure out what I did differently. 🙂
Hi,
Can’t wait to make these….but how do I save this recipe ?? am I just missing something ?
Enjoy all!!!
You can actually make rolo cookies, they are the most delicious things in the world!!
http://www.yummly.com/recipe/Rolo-Cookies-473644?columns=5&position=2%2F20
Hi there, thank you for this delicious recipe. Any way we could make this eggless or without the egg white? Thanks xx
Can you change the oats to rice crispy’s cereal?
What happens when you half the sugar? I always do on all the recipes since we live at 9000′ feet and it is necessary due to altitude. Thanks.
Is there any way that I could print off the R for Rolo Cookie Bars ?
Take a screen shot then print the picture or just save it.