Favorite Chocolate Caramel Nut Bars

Favorite Chocolate Caramel Nut Bars recipe

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Chocolate chunks, walnuts and gooey caramel are sandwiched between a chocolate crust and topping in these rich, decadent bar cookies.

time

prep:

30 min

total:

48 min

servings

total:

32 servings, 1 bar each

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What You Need

bag (14 oz.) KRAFT Caramels

can (5 oz.) evaporated milk, divided

pkg. (2-layer size) German chocolate cake mix with pudding in the mix

1/2

cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted

1-1/2

cups chopped PLANTERS Walnuts, divided

cup BAKER'S Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks, divided

Make It

PREHEAT oven to 350°F. Place caramels and 1/3 cup of the milk in heavy saucepan; cook on low heat until caramels are completely melted, stirring frequently. Remove from heat; set aside. Mix remaining milk, dry cake mix and butter in large bowl. Press half of the cake mixture firmly onto bottom of 13x9-inch baking pan to form crust. Bake 10 minutes.

SPRINKLE 1 cup of the walnuts and 1/2 cup of the chocolate chunks over crust. Top with caramel mixture; carefully spread to edges of pan. Top with teaspoonfuls of the remaining cake mixture; press gently into caramel mixture with back of spoon. Sprinkle with the remaining 1/2 cup each walnuts and chocolate chunks.

BAKE an additional 18 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely. Cut into 32 bars to serve.

Kraft Kitchens Tips

Use Your Microwave

To melt the caramels in the microwave, place caramels and 1/3 cup of the milk in medium microwavable bowl. Microwave on HIGH 3 to 4 minutes or until caramels are completely melted, stirring every 2 minutes.

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necoleshort

posted:11/30/2008

Super Rich. But good. I had to cook it longer then what it said.

MariposaMami

posted:11/6/2008

I used caramel sauce (ice-cream topping) instead of caramels melted because this is what I had on hand. This recipe was great! My husband said these were the best "brownies" he had ever had!

a cook

posted:3/22/2008

This was so easy and everyone really liked it. I want to use pecans next time.

a cook

posted:1/22/2008

This recipe has been a favorite of my family's for many years. I pulled up this recipe so I can send the bars to my kids away at college for Valentine's Day. I recommend it - even if it takes a little time to unwrap the caramels.

ainst

posted:1/14/2008

This Recipe was a complicated disaster. First of all the caramels are individually wrapped so it takes several minutes to unwrap all of them. My Grocery store didn't carry the chocolate chunks so I used Baker's baking bar instead. When I tried to cut it into chunks it just crumbled. I was expecting the cake mix to look like the consistency of regular cake mix but it resembled brown sugar. It would be helpful if they mentioned this. When i finally got ready for the caramel mix it was stuck in the pan I tried reheating it but that didn't really help. Then to top it all of I discovered the bottom coil of my oven had broken! So I had to broil it and Broil is only high or low it doesn't tell you the temperature. So it took 3 times to get it done. And this was all before church yesterday.

anitham

posted:11/16/2006

Its a Wonderful & easy recipe.I became so famous with this recipe,Thank you.

a cook

posted:9/15/2006

Wonderful! I chilled the bars for several hours as another baker suggested and found them very hard to cut. After sitting on the counter for a while, they were much easier to cut so I won't chill for as long in the future. Gooey and delicious!

BusyMomma7

posted:8/14/2006

I dreamed about this dessert after it was all gone and I cannot wait to make it again!! It certainly is a big crowd pleaser and easy (yet sticky) to make. I let mine chill overnight in the refridgerator and still had a little trouble getting it to cut into bars.

a cook

posted:7/12/2006

WOW!! This went over big on Bunko night! All the gals loved it. I used walnuts for a Turtle twist, it was so easy to make, but it doesn't look or taste like it. I refrigerated it for a couple hours before I cut into it, and it was a perfect conistency! I will make this again and again and again!

a cook

posted:7/1/2006

Sooo yummy. I had a little trouble filling the bottom layer with the cake mixture, but it spread out nice. People really do assume it takes a long time to make. The carmel is gooey, but not runny, so it's easy to cut.