School House Cookie Bars - A great thank you gift

This weekend I tried a new recipe. At my work we recently put together an employee recipe book. It wasn't large, but as I have mentioned before I love these type of books because they contain favorites from people and you know they have been tested out. As a thank you to the team in our print shop that printed and put together 250 books I decided to bake them a treat from the book. I was debating between a muffin recipe or a dessert and decided that cookies would probably go over the best with the print shop guys. I ended up doing the School House Cookie Bars. It seemed easy yet tasty and it was. The only down side was that they came out a little drier then I like in a cookie, but the combination of the caramel and chocolate was great. I didn't add the nuts because you never know in this allergy filled world. My only hope is that by the time the guys get them in the mail that the cookies were still recognizable and that they don't think I am the weird lady that mails cookie crumbs. Enjoy!

School House Cookie Bars
18-1/2 oz yellow cake mix
2 cups quick oats, uncooked
3/4 cup oil
1 egg beaten
12 oz caramel topping
1 cup of chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Mix cake mix, oatmeal, oil and egg. Put 1/2 of mix into bottom of greased 13-9 pan. Drizzle caramel topping over the mix. Sprinkle chocolate chips and nuts over caramel. Crumble remaining cake mixture over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 28-30 minutes.