Homemade Whatchamacallits

Ingredients

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup dulce de leche
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup caramel bits
• 3/4 cup chopped peanuts, toasted
• 2 cups rice krispies

Directions

1. Milk Chocolate Candy Melts (This recipe used Wilton's Premium)
2. Line a 9 x 13" baking pan with foil and spray lightly with nonstick cooking spray. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
3. Cream the butter and sugar until creamy. Add the eggs, vanilla, dulce de leche and salt and beat on low until fluffy.
4. Sift the baking powder and flour and slowly add to the butter mixture. Stir in the caramel bits, peanuts and rice krispies (in this order) by hand. Batter will be thick. Smooth top with small metal spatula. Bake for 28 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
5. Cut blondies into bar-size rectangles (your choice on how big or small you want them to be.
6. Melt candy melts over low heat, stirring smooth. Spread over bars, using small metal spatula, encasing top and sides with the melted chocolate. Set on wax paper and let cool until chocolate is set.