Turtle Brownie Tutorial

Making these brownies around Christmas is a long-standing tradition with some friends of ours (thanks for the recipe, Sue!) and I just couldn't resist sharing it with everyone - because they are dangerously delicious!

Ingredients:

anything made with this stuff just HAS TO BE GOOD!

1 pkg German Chocolate Cake Mix (although, I used Triple Chocolate, of course)

50 Caramels

1 pkg Chocolate Chips (6 oz.)

2/3 C Evaporated Milk

3/4 C Melted Butter

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Unwrap the 50 caramels and melt them with 1/3 cup evaporated milk in a pan over low heat, stirring occasionally. DO NOT LET THEM BOIL. Keep warm.

While the caramels are melting, start preparing the cake mixture by mixing the dry cake mix in a bowl with the melted butter and 1/3 cup evaporated milk.

Spread 1/2 this mixture evenly in a greased 9x13 pan (can use metal or glass pan). Bake for 6 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle the chocolate chips evenly throughout the pan.

By now the caramels should be nice and melted and ready for pouring.

Start in one corner of the pan and pour the melted caramels in rows over the chocolate chips in a smooth back-n-forth motion. If you have extra caramel when you reach the end, start back the other way until the entire pan is covered.

It will look something like this. Yum! :)

At this point, it will be tempting to just grab a spoon and dive in - BUT we're not done yet!

Take the remaining cake mixture and spoon out little dollups on top. You can make nice, neat little rows or plop them haphazardly. I'll leave that up to your taste and creativity. Bake for 20 minutes.

Now we're ready to eat! The way the caramel spills up through the cracks in the brownie is what gives this recipe its name: Turtle Brownies!

Enjoy!!