Recipe#4343

Title: Caramel Peanut Bars

Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking 
 From: Sherry Zeiss zeiss@tab.com 
 Subject: Caramel Peanut Bars 
 Message-ID: <32926848.0@206.224.80.6> 
 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:09:12 GMT 

1/4 cup Karo syrup
 2 tablespoons butter
 1 tablespoon vanilla 
 2 tablespoons peanut butter
 salt
 3 cups confectioners' sugar
 35 caramels
 1 cup peanuts
 12 oz bag milk chocolate morsels
 Combine the corn syrup, butter, vanilla, peanut butter, and salt
 until creamy.  Mix in the confectioners sugar.
 When the mixture is very thick, press it into a lightly greased
 9x9-inch pan.  Refrigerate.
 Melt the caramels in a double boiler over hot water.  When soft
 mix in the peanuts.  Pour over the mixture in the pan.  Refrigerate.
 Melt the chocolate over in a microwave oven set on high for 2
 minutes.  Stir halfway through cooking time.
 When the mixture in the pan is firm, cut it into 2x1-inch bars.
 Spear a bar on a fork and dip into the melted chocolate.  Tap to
 knock off any excess drips.  Place on waxed paper to cool to room
 temperature.
 Makes about 2 dozen bars.