So from time to time when I score keep hockey I bring treats for the refs. I know quite a few of them and they usually let me know ahead of time that they will be working with me in hopes of receiving treats. So tonight I work with one of my more favorite refs and decided that since he liked caramel, I would make caramel brownies. What an ordeal that turned out to be. Now I had made several versions of caramel brownies through out my life but came across these ones on the Canadian Baker and choose to modify them a bit. Neither my husband or the ref really like nuts so I took those out of the original recipe. Anyway, back to why they were a cleaning disaster. The store did not have regular Kraft square caramels and I had to buy a different kind. I think there in lied the problem. For when I microwaved them with the evaporated milk it immediately boiled up and exploded everywhere. Luckily there was enough caramel salvaged for the brownies but it was a huge pain in the butt to clean … [Read more...]