Me: What do you guys want for dessert?
Haley: What do we have?
Me: Ice cream, Dibs, or Klondike Bars.
Trevor: I want brownies.
Me: We don’t have brownies.
Trevor: Buuuuut you haven’t made brownies in the loooooongest tiiiiime.
Me: What are you talking about? I made them last week.
Trevor: That’s a looooooong time.
I originally created these a couple of months ago for Father’s Day. I have since served them up to ooohs, aaahs, and big grins 4 more times. So I decided I’ve kept them from you long enough. Trevor agrees.
Caramel Pecan Brownies
Makes 12-15
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
• 2/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
• 1 (11 ounce) bag of KRAFT Caramel bits
• 1/3 cup half and half
• 2/3 cup finely chopped pecans
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat a 9×13 pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the eggs, melted butter, and vanilla until thoroughly combined. Spread evenly into the coated pan and bake for 15 minutes.
In the meantime, in a small saucepan, over low heat, combine the caramel bits and half and half until fully melted and incorporated, about 2-3 minutes.
Spread the melted caramel over the semi-cooked brownies, topped with the pecans. Place back in the oven for another 15 minutes.
Let cool completely before cutting into squares.
NOTE: if you’re short on time and ingredients, a boxed brownie mix will suffice.
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These sound (and look) wonderful. I love the caramel pecan topping and the brownies look as moist as can be – yum!
I’m totally with Trevor. A week is way too long to go between brownies. THESE brownies, however, need to be made daily. And inhaled. Doctors orders. :)
I love…love….love these brownies. Can you bring them over again? :)
Hee. I was going to dedicate this post to Mike. Now I don’t need to bring them…you can make them!
You make brownies every week? Why don’t I move in with you, again? I think I’d make a great stay-at-home nanny. and we’d have so much fun. (And get so fat.) Win/Win?
Sugary Yummy Goodness!
Trevor is such a smart boy! Yum!
Now you’re talking MY language!
These look and sound AWESOME!
All my favorites, packed in one pan!!!! Amy, where do you find the caramel bits? I’ve never seen them here.
I get them at Target. If you can’t find them, just use a bag of the square wrapped caramels…you’ll just have to spend a little time taking the wrappers off.
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