Homemade Butterscotch Chips

Yesterday I tried my hand at making my own butterscotch chips... or chunks.  I got this idea from heavenly homemakers again.  Next is trying her homemade chocolate chip recipe.  These taste great even though they don't taste incredibly butterscotchy to me.  I used Virgin coconut oil which tastes like coconuts cause that's what I had in the house and so they taste like butterscotch mixed with a light coconut flavor.  They still would work for many things.  In order to avoid the coconut taste, use coconut oil that has been expeller pressed.  I think that is correct.  Apparently, coconut oil is much better for you than butter.  The only reason I had some is because my mother-in-law had some and never used it and passed it on to me.  I've enjoyed experimenting with it.

As you can see in this photo... Zeke is throwing a fit because I won't give him a bite.  I already gave him one and that's it.

Here's the recipe if you want to try it.  These have to be stored in the fridge or freezer.

1/2 C butter
1/2 C coconut oil (coconut oil is solid and turns liquid at 75 degrees or so)
1 C brown sugar
1 t vanilla

dissolve all of this on low heat and stir continuously.  Pour into parchment lined casserole pan 13X9 is what I used and then put into fridge for a few hours.  Break up into chunks.  This should make 4 C of chunks.

Just for the fun of it... I'll include a video of Ben encouraging Gwen to go potty.  Don't say she's never encouraged!  I thought it was funny how Ben turned Carmina Burana into a potty song.  He does stuff like that and it cracks me up!!