Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Bars

Super easy and delicious!!! 

Ingredients: 

2 packs of chocolate chips
2 cans of condensed milk 
A couple handfuls of pretzels (I use the square ones. They're easier to place)

Melt one of the packs of chocolate chips. Be careful when you do this as chocolate burns easily. I do it in the microwave. Put the chocolate chips in a bowls and microwave for 15-20 seconds, stir, and repeat until the chocolate is smoothly melted.
Pour melted chocolate into a square 8X8 glass pan. Place a layer of pretzels over the chocolate layer and let chocolate harden. (Put it in the fridge if you'd like)
While that's cooling, pour the 2 cans of condensed milk into a pot and cook on medium/low heat for about 20-23 minutes stirring constantly. This will turn into a caramel sauce as it thickens.
Pour caramel sauce over the chocolate and pretzel layers and place back in fridge.
Melt the second pack of chocolate chips the same way as the first bag.
When it is melted smoothly, pour over caramel layer in glass pan.
Place back in fridge until it has hardened.

Cut it into pieces and DIG IN! :) 


(Credit to The Stay At Home Chef. Great Recipe!)

Finger Lickin' Good Butter Finger Cake

Finger Lickin' Good Butter Finger Cake 

Ingredients: 

If you're feeling lazy, go get a dry Devil's Food Cake mix from your local grocery store and follow those instructions. Mix in (2) crushed butterfingers bars to the cake batter and then follow the instructions for baking.

If you'd like to make the cake from scratch, here's how!! 

For Cake: 

2 full sized ButterFinger candy bars

1 ¾ cup sugar
½ cup butter (1 stick)
2 eggs
½ cup cocoa
½ cup hot water
1 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda

Put stick of softened butter in mixing bowl and add sugar. Mix well. Add eggs and beat well.

In a small pan, put hot water and add the cocoa. Heat and stir until this creates a nice smooth paste. Take off of heat and add this chocolate paste to the cake mix. Mix again.

In a small bowl, measure out all of the dry ingredients (this is your flour and soda). Add the vanilla to the cup of milk and alternatively add the dry ingredients and the milk/vanilla to the mix. Beat this well.

Crush up the (2) butterfinger candy bars and add to cake mixture. Mix well. (Make sure your pieces are crushed well enough. We don't want anyone choking on butterfingers pieces!!) 

Pour this mixture into a large greased (and lightly floured) cake pan. Bake for 30 min. at 350 degrees. (When your timer goes off, use a toothpick to check if your cake is done. If the toothpick can be inserted and brought out of the cake without cake sticking to it..its done!) If it sticks keep the cake in the over for a couple more minutes, until the toothpick comes out clean. (Credit to Mom T's Devil Food Cake recipe) 

For Caramel Sauce: 

1 packed cup of Brown Sugar

1/2 cup of milk 

4 tbsp of butter

1 tbsp of vanilla

A pinch of salt. 

In a small sized sauce pan on low/medium heat, mix together brown sugar, milk, butter, and salt. Cook while gently whisking for 5-7 minutes. After sauce has thickened a bit, add vanilla and continue to whisk for about a minute. Put to side until cake it finished cooking. 

For Icing: 

(Again, if you're feeling lazy, go buy store bought vanilla buttercream icing and use it instead of making your own)

3 cups of powdered sugar

1 cup of butter

1 tsp of vanilla

1 to 2 tbsp of whipping cream (or milk) 

In a standing mixer fitted with a whisk, mix together sugar and butter. Mix on low speed until well blended and then increase speed to medium and beat for another 3 minutes.

Add vanilla and cream and continue to beat on medium speed for 1 minute more, adding more cream if needed for spreading consistency.

(Food Network recipe) 

When Cake is finished baking: 

Take out cake, poke holes in the cake with a fork and pour the caramel sauce over the cake. Replace in oven for about a minute. Take cake out and frost while cake is still hot. Crush the remaining (2) butterfinger bars and sprinkle over the top of the cake. 

Last step, HIDE YOUR CAKE!!! IT WILL BE DEVOURED BY ANYONE WHO SEES IT!! You have been warned.