Dulce De-Lish Bars

I bake a lot for my friend but when he brings the leftovers home, his younger sister never can have them because she’s allergic to peanuts. Even though I make a lot of things without peanuts, I found out that his sister can’t even eat toll house chocolate chips because they’re made in a factory that also processed peanut products.

So this time I decided to make something especially for Lindsey, and I checked all the labels to make sure it would be completely peanut free and yummy.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

1 cup package brown sugar

2 eggs

1½ teaspoons vanilla

1 (14-ounce) package caramels

½ cup evaporated milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a13x9-inch baking pan.

Stir flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl on the side and beat butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer until nice and creamy. Add the eggs and the vanilla to the large bowl and beat again until smooth. Slowly stir in the flour mixture.

Spread one half to two thirds of the batter in the greased pan and bake for 7 to 8 minutes.

While the first layer is cooling, melt the caramels and evaporated milk in a nonstick saucepan over low heat, using a wooden spoon to periodically stir this dulce de leche mixture.

Pour the dulce over the first layer, and reserve about two tablespoons to drizzle over later.

Afterwards, drop spoonfuls of batter in top of the dulce de leche layer and use a rubber spatula to spread the batter evenly.

Place back in the oven and bake for an additional 25 minutes. Cool and then reheat the left over dulce de leche and drizzle it over the bars. Let the drizzle cool and then cut into bars.

Packaging them up.

These bars may not look perfect but they taste so good they’re dangerous. Don’t let yourself stay alone in the house with a batch of these, they will be gone by morning.

                                 

Double Decker Toffee Chocolate Brownies

Well I owe my friend Cathy some money, so we decided that if I baked her 3-4 batches of baked goods, that would be sufficient instead of the cash. (I thought this was a pretty good deal). I already made her a recipe with peanut butter so I thought, why not some toffee this time?

I came up with this batch of yummy brownies:

Ingredients:

3/4 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup packed light brown sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 plus 1/4 cups flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa

1 tablespoon butter

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup plus a little more than a 1/4 cup toffee bits

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Lightly grease a 13x9 inch pan.

In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until fluffy and then beat in the eggs and vanilla. Add the dry mixture of the 2 1/2 cups flour, baking powder, and salt.

Toffee bits on top, no need to press

them into the dough.

Divide batter in half. Blend the cocoa powder into one half of the dough and spread it evenly into the pan. Melt the 1 tablespoon butter and evenly drizzle and then spread it on top of the chocolate mixture in the pan.

I had to use my hands (just washed

of course) to spread the top

layer evenly over the bottom.

Stir remaining dough with the extra 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 cup toffee bits. Heap bits of white dough on top of the chocolate dough and spread the layer evenly. Top with 1/4 cup plus a little more toffee bits on top.

Bake for 25-30 minutes, let cool, cut into squares, and dig in!

How good did turn come out?

My friend ate 3 within 2 minutes, enough said.