German Chocolate Brownies

In my early days of teaching, we did a lot of eating at school.  We had Fat Fridays and afternoon meetings all dripping with goodies.  This recipe was one that one of the 5th grade teachers regularly made back in the mid 1980's.  It's wicked good and super easy!

German Chocolate Brownies

Printable Recipe

Ingredients:

German Chocolate Cake Mix (preferably the kind with pudding)

3/4 melted butter

2/3 c. evaporated milk (1/3 c. + 1/3 c.)

1 c. chopped pecans

1 c. (6 oz.) semi sweet chocolate chips

14 oz. bag caramels

Flour and grease a 9 X 13 inch pan.  Combine one package of

German Chocolate cake mix with melted butter, 1/3 cup evaporated

milk and one cup chopped pecans.  Stir all by hand. Put one half

of this dough into the pan and bake at 350 degrees for only 6 minutes.

Sprinkle semi sweet chocolate chips over the baked crust.  Then

combine 1/3 cup evaporated milk with one 14 oz. package of light

caramels and melt together over low heat.  Spread caramel mixture

over the chocolate pieces.  Crumble remaining one half of dough

over caramel mixture.  Return to oven and bake at 350 degrees for

13 – 18 minutes.  Cool completely in pan then cut into bars.