German Chocolate Bars
"These have been a favorite of mine for years. They are quite different from most brownie/bar cookies yet are a hit every time they've been served. If you like caramel and chocolate ....."
- Ready In:
- 44mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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1 13x9 pan
ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) package caramels
- 1⁄2 cup evaporated milk
- 1 (18 1/2 ounce) package German chocolate cake mix
- 3⁄4 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄3 cup evaporated milk
- 1 cup nuts, chopped
- 1 (12 ounce) package semi-sweet chocolate chips
directions
- Unwrap the bag of caramels.
- Over a double boiler, melt caramels with 1/2 cup evaporated milk; set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a large bowl, combine German Chocolate cake mix, butter, 1/3 cup evaporated milk, nuts and 6-ounces (1 cup) chocolate chips; mix by hand until mixture holds together.
- Press 1/2 mixture in a 9x13-inch pan.
- Bake 6 minutes.
- Sprinkle remaining 6 ounces (1 cup) chocolate chips evenly over the top of baked mixture.
- Spread/drizzle the melted caramel evenly over the top of the baked mixture/chocolate chips.
- Crumble the remaining reserved mixture evenly over the top of the caramel.
- Bake 15 to 18 minutes. Cool completely (may speed up cooling by placing in the refrigerator) before cutting.
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Reviews
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Fantastically delicious recipe!!! This is a big ol' pan of ooey-gooey delight! -
These are amazing and so easy to make!!! -
I love this recipe. It's so easy and they are a hit with all of my friends. I have made these several times and they never fail. You can even use other flavors of cake mix. I highly recommend this recipe. -
This is an outstanding brownie bar!! It's very easy to make (melting the caramels in the double boiler seemed to take the longest time). I didn't add nuts. Did everything else the same. To mix the brownie part I put a ziplock bag over my hand and started kneeding to keep my hands clean, and this seemed to work really well. Worked well for pressing it into the pan, also. I ended up putting about 3/4 of the mix in the pan to cover the whole bottom, then crumbled the remaining like the directions say. This recipe is a keeper!! -
OMG, these are out of this world!!! :) My husband and I had made these for our wine group's German night and they were a big hit! After being at the party for 30 minutes, half of the pan was gone! Instead of melting the caramels and the evaporated milk together, we used Hershey's Classic Caramel topping (about 1/3 of the jar) and added 4 oz. melted Bakers' German Chocolate bar to the mixture before baking. This recipe is definitely going into my personal cookbook at home! Thanks Caryn!! :)
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Caryn
Hoover, AL
I live in to Jacksonville, FL with my husband, 2 daughters (17 and 11), 4 cats, and 2 dogs. My favorite things to make are cookies/bars and pound cakes. I have had a great time cooking since discovering Recipezaar January 2002.
This is a picture of my youngest cat, Lily. She is my sweet sweet little baby.
