Instructions: Cookie Base: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In large bowl, combine flour, brown sugar and baking soda; mix well. With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Press evenly into greased 13x9-inch baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

Topping: Melt over hot (not boiling) water, Nestle Toll House milk chocolate morsels; stir until smooth. Remove from heat. In medium bowl, combine eggs, brown sugar, vanilla extract and salt; beat 2 minutes at high speed. Add melted morsels; mix well. Stir in 1/2 cup pecans.

Pour Topping over Cookie Base; sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup pecans.

Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool completely on wire rack; cut into 2x1-inch bars.

Makes 4-1/2 dozen 2x1-inch bars.

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