Caramel Delights/Basic Dough Recipe

By MaryEllen

This one was tasty but pretty difficult to work with.

Ingredients

• Basic Bar Cookie Dough
• 1 (15-oz) box white cake mix
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 (3-oz) pkg cream cheese, softened
• 1 egg
• For the Cookie
• 1 (13-oz) can dulce de leche
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar

Preparation

Step 1

1. Prepare Bar Cookie Dough as directed.
In a large bowl, place cake mix, butter, cream cheese and egg. Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat 2 to 2 minutes, stopping once to scrape down the bowl. Use the batter for any of the recipes that follow. For all recipes, preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease or spray the bottom and sides of a 13 x 9-inch baking pan.


Loosely wrap about 1/3 of the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate. Press remaining dough into the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake 10 minutes

2. Remove pan from oven and top dough with spoonfuls of dulce de leche. Return to hot oven for 5 minutes, then gently spread dulce de leche to cover the dough. Crumble remaining dough from the fridge evenly over dulce de leche.

3. Return pan to oven and bake 24 to 28 minutes, until top is light golden brown. Let cool on a rack. Cut into bars. Dust with powdered sugar. Makes 54