German Chocolate Caramel Bars | Cake Mix | Bar Cookies Recipe

Here's one of my favorite decadent baked bar cookie recipes for parties.  These German Chocolate Caramel Bars are ooey, gooey and very rich, yet easy to make from a cake mix!

German Chocolate Caramel Turtle Bars

Cake Mix Cookie Bars

This German Chocolate Caramel Bars recipe is a family favorite, passed down from one of my co-workers who's long retired and moved on to sunny Florida.  Every time I make sweets I have fond memories of the parties and bake sales held at the office. You'll enjoy these every season of the year, for Mother's Day, Father's Day, Memorial Day picnics, summer cookouts, during the winter holidays, birthday parties and even after Sunday dinner! 

These cake mix bars are so sinful! My oldest daughter has a sweet tooth (she takes after her mom), but my hubby is known to make anything chocolate disappear too, as does charming son-in-law.

Treat the kids and grandkids and watch everyone ask for more!

Especially delicious as a dessert treat for your family, dinner guests or kids' sports team celebrations. I usually made them with Duncan Hines Signature German Chocolate cake mix, if I can find it.  

Check out my other easy Cake Mix hacks for yummy bars, cookies and breads -

Banana Muffins from Cake Mix

Triple Chocolate Square Bars from Cake Mix

Sunshine Pineapple Cake from Cake Mix

Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies from Cake Mix

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Check out my recipe for Fresh Apple Cake with Caramel Sauce or Cake Mix Cookie Recipes

German Chocolate Caramel Cookie Bars

Equipment:
Mixing Bowl
Wooden Spoon
Saucepan
Sheet Pan
Cookie Sheet
Cooling Rack

Ingreidents:

1 pkg. Duncan Hines German Chocolate Cake Mix
1 -1/2 c. Nestle chocolate chips (1 bag)
1 bag caramels (melt in top of double boiler)
1 c. chopped nuts (optional)
1/3 c. Carnation evaporated milk
3/4 c. melted Cabot butter
1/3 c. Carnation evaporated milk

Combine caramels and 1/3 c. evaporated milk in saucepan and melt. Set aside.
Mix by hand: Cake mix, butter, 1/3 c. evaporated milk, and walnuts.
Batter will be very thick.
Spread 1/2 batter in greased 9x13 pan sheet pan .
Bake 350 for 6 minutes.
Sprinkle chocolate chips over crust, drizzle caramel over mixture.
Spread remaining batter over it (use hands if necessary).
Return to oven for 18-10 min.
Cool and refrigerate 30 min. to set caramel then cut.
Can use Swiss Chocolate cake mix.
Put cookie sheet underneath pan when baking.

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German Chocolate Caramel Bars | Cake Mix Dessert Recipe - Caramel Turtles

New ways to indulge and enjoy Caramel! Most people crave sweets or something salty when under stress.  Sometimes we have to indulge and give into our whims. Enjoy German Chocolate Caramel Bars also known as Caramel Turtles 

This recipe for a chocolate caramel bar was given to me by a coworker. It's truly a rich, chocolate creamy caramel goodness fix. And you wouldn't believe it starts with a doctored cake mix!

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German Chocolate Caramel Bars

Ingredients:

                  1     pkg. German Chocolate cake mix
                  1     -1/2 c. chocolate chips (1 bag)
                  1 bag caramels (melt in top of double boiler)
                  1     c. chopped nuts (optional)
                1/3     c. evaporated milk
                3/4     c. melted butter
                1/3     c. evaporated milk

  Preparation:

               Combine caramels and 1/3 c. evaporated milk in
               saucepan and melt.  Set aside.  Mix by hand: Cake
               mix, butter, 1/3 c. evaporated milk, and walnuts.
               Batter will be very thick.  Spread 1/2 batter in
               greased 9x13 cookie sheet pan.  Bake 350 for 6 minutes.
               Sprinkle chocolate chips over crust, drizzle caramel
               over mixture.  Spread remaining batter over it (use
               hands if necessary).  Return to oven for 18-10 min.
               Cool and refrigerate 30 min. to set caramel then cut.
               Put cookie sheet underneath pan when baking 

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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Bars Recipe

Do you get excited about Pumpkin Season?  I do! To make these tasty Pumpkin Bars I used the Tastefully Simple Almond Pound Cake mix but you could use any pound cake mix and Aldi works fine too, and borrowed the cream cheese filling that I use in my Cranberry Nibble Bread recipe that I make to serve with the Thanksgiving turkey dinner.  You could make these as Halloween treats at the kids' parties at school too!

Pumpkin Recipes

If you're wondering why many of my photos show that I'm using aluminum foil pans for baking, well, I do own many nice baking dishes! The majority of my creative cooking and baking is done on weekends for Sunday night dinner either at my house or my daughter's house. This way I know I don't have to worry about when I'll be getting my good white porcelain baking dishes and pans back!

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Check out my Cream Cheese Nibble Bread and Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipes here

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bars

I served these yummy pumpkin cream cheese bars with guess what - my homemade
Pumpkin Ice Cream !  I've also made my own homemade ice cream. What a delightful duo, and used some Cool Whip as a topping.  You can use canned dairy whipped cream, or make the real thing yourself!


1 (15 oz.) can Pumpkin, pure

• 8 oz. cream cheese
  1 Egg
  1 box Almond pound cake mix or plain pound cake mix
  1 tbsp Cinnamon
  1 tbsp Nutmeg
  1/3 cup Sugar
  1 tsp Vanilla
  Mix cream cheese and egg together and whip.  Fold into dry cake mix and mix all ingredients together and bake in square pan according to box mix directions.
  
  Frost with whip cream 

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Best Ooey Gooey Fudgy Chocolate Brownies Recipe

I'd like to share my absolutely most favorite family recipe for Chocolate Brownies from scratch! They'll be sure to please everyone from kids, grandchildren, Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa!  Bake up a batch to take to a neighbor who's a shut-in, or welcome the new neighbors next door who just moved in!

Chocolate Desserts

Here's an old real estate agent house staging trick. Nothing says loving like something from the oven!  Right before potential buyers are to visit your house, make certain to bake some Snickerdoodles, chocolate chip cookies, an apple cobbler or some brownies. If you're not much of a cook, don't worry; simply use a frozen pie or the pre-mixed cookie dough they sell in the refrigerated section of many grocery stores. Use up that cookie dough you bought to help support the school fundraiser! The point is to make your home smell nice and inviting when the buyers stop by. Score additional brownie points by offering them some of whatever it is you baked.

The last few weeks Hubby and I have been going along for the ride and looking at houses with our oldest daughter and our charming son-in-law. They've been looking for a larger place for their growing family.  I have to admit it's fun - getting to see everyone's version of Martha Stewart decorating ideas (or lack thereof).

My daughter has a super-sensitive sense of smell - and she can immediately detect those houses where there's a cat or dog in residence and Fido isn't housebroken.

Today was a dark and dreary rainy Sunday.  Exactly the type of weather where I enjoy staying indoors and baking up a "storm."

While I always have boxed mix brownies on hand for emergencies, I've constantly been in search of the best brownie recipe. I think box mix brownies taste artificial.

Come back and let me know what you think of them if you make them!

Check out my Triple Chocolate Brownie Recipe or Triple Chocolate Caramel Bars made in a Sheet Pan too!

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Ooey, Gooey Chocolate Fudgy Brownies

3/4 c. all-purpose flour (or use white whole wheat flour)
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
2 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips (or carob chips)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 c. butter
2/3 c. granulated sugar (or maple syrup)
2 tbl. water
2 eggs

Place chips and vanilla in bowl.
In small saucepan, bring water, sugar, butter & salt to a boil.
In small bowl, mix dry ingredients.
Pour boiled mixture over chips. Add eggs, one at a time and mix well.
Add dry ingredients. Mix well.
Place in prepared 8 x 8 or 9 x 9 inch baking pan.
Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Let Cool.

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