Here I’d like to pass along an EXCELLENT website called “All Recipes“. It is a FREE site which you can become a supporting member with a few additional benefits if you like. I signed up in 2005 and have been loving it ever since.
Basically, people submit their recipes and folks try them out. They can rate the recipes and also leave feedback (i.e. things they’ve done to tweak the recipe and helpful tips to make it even better). If you like a recipe you can “add it to your recipe box” and save it there for future use; this would be ONE of my favorite features.
The thing I love about it, there have been many times when at a party I love a dish and ask for the recipe and the person “kinda” tells me what’s in it. I can go to that site and search it out and find the recipe! Always! For example, the brownies my sister makes with German Chocolate cake mix…. I found the recipe there and made the brownies this morning. I am including the recipe here if you wanna make the world’s richest brownies EVER! :0)
I’ve discovered the BEST BEST BEST part of their site – as I plan out 4 recipes I wanna make for the week, I simply click “add to shopping list” and it adds all the ingredients I need to buy at the store for the recipes I want to make! I print it out and take it along to the store and that week while cooking, I ALWAYS have the exact ingredients I need without calling a neighbor to “borrow” a cup of this or that. I have found this to be the best feature, money saver, and time saver ever… and it’s free. I have recently joined as a supporting member because I believe in the site that much!
Start enjoying these benefits today:
- Save recipes to your Recipe Box
- Create and save shopping lists
- Rate and review recipes
- Upload your own photos and recipes
- Choose a variety of newsletters
There are kid friendly meal ideas, vegetarian ideas (*my daughter is a veg head), and healthy cooking too. Check it out, it’s free, what do you have to lose?
CARAMEL BROWNIES:
Ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) package individually wrapped caramels
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk
- 1 (18.25 ounce) package German chocolate cake mix
- 3/4 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease one 9×13 inch baking dish.
- Melt caramels and 1/3 cup of the evaporated milk over very low heat, stirring occasionally until smooth.
- Combine cake mix, melted butter, the remaining 1/3 cup evaporated milk, vanilla and nuts. Mix well and spread 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 8 minutes.
- Sprinkle the chocolate chips evenly over the partially cooked brownies. Pour the melted caramel mixture over the top and with a teaspoon drop the remaining 1/2 of the batter evenly over the top.
- Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 20 minutes. Let brownies cool in pan then cut into bars.
*owl biscuit’s tip: I omitted the nuts as my family does not care for them. I also decided at the final step to add the remaining 1/2 batter to a zip lock baggie, I snipped a hole in the end and evenly squeezed it on top so it baked more thoroughly. My family, friends, and co-workers adore these.

February 4, 2010 at 6:52 pm |
I love that site! Ok the brownies look absolutely awesome! I love caramel! Are you trying to kill me here?! I will have to make these. For the kids of course, yeah that’s it for the kids!
February 5, 2010 at 8:09 am |
I love it too! It’s just good stuff. I’m sorry for mentioning this recipe because you are trying so hard to be good. I’ll eat one for ya, how’s that? ROFLMAO- so, seriously, sorry
February 4, 2010 at 10:21 pm |
I love that site too! I get all my recipes from there. I like to tweak most of my recipes to make them more healthy, and it seems there is always at least one person in the comments who does the same, so it’s very helpful! Those brownies look delish! Some things (desserts!) you just gotta go with the full-fat and calorie version.
I’ll have to try these next time I want something sinful!
February 5, 2010 at 8:09 am |
Yes, sinful- it’s the only way to describe these. Make them when ya need to be a baaa-aaaaa-aaad girl!
February 5, 2010 at 2:37 pm |
I will go check it out…those brownies look so yummy!
February 7, 2010 at 12:14 am |
Oh Mel, you will be in heaven! Enjoy!