![]() Place the flour, butter, sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer and blend on medium speed. If you want to top the bars with different chocolates, use two 8” square pans as I did here. Lightly spray a 9” x 13” x 2” pan with cooking spray or line with parchment paper and set aside. So, break out your happy dancin' shoes, and let's make Thousand Dollar Bars. Think of them as Twix® on Warren Buffett's budget. These bars definitely remind people of Twix® bars, both in shape and taste, but OH, so much better when top-end caramel and chocolate is used. Add a buttery shortbread crust, and we've got a golden ticket winner. PJ suggested Mamie Eisenhower's Million Dollar Fudge (wonderful fudge, you can find the recipe online at the Eisenhower archives) and I started thinking about caramel and chocolate. The idea began with brainstorming blogs to go along with our annual sweepstakes. These Thousand Dollar Bars did just that for us here at KAF. On a bad day, we do the wine taster (small taste and a spit) or the Emily Post (napkin over mouth, remove offending food, weak smile).īut on a really really good day, we do the Happy Dance (personal taste rules here mine includes foot stomping and mmm mmm noises) and the Daffy Duck. ![]() Susan Reid's creations often get me to do the swoon. Sometimes we do the swoon, the table grip (hold me Ralphie, I've died and gone to heaven). ![]() Not everything we bake here in the kitchen gets us to do the Daffy Duck. ![]() Have you ever baked something that made you do the Daffy Duck? You know, the cartoon scene where Daffy runs about yelling, "I'm rich, I'm rich, whoop, whoop, yippee, I'm rich!" He's bouncing around on his head, feet, hands, and rump in a spastic outpouring of sheer joy. ![]()
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