Chocolate Crack AKA C2P2

This recipe come from Pinterest and here is the link to the original poster with detailed instructions.  Basically, you mash up potato chips.  Melt some caramels with peanut butter, then add heavy whipping cream.  Melt some chocolate and fold in the potato chips.  Pour the chocolate mess into a pan lined with foil or parchment paper.  Then plop dolops of the peanut butter and caramel mixture onto the chocolate.  Top THAT with 1/2 jar to a jar of caramel ice cream topping and then run a knife back forth through the peanut butter blops until everything is fanned out.  Throw it in the fridge for about 30 minutes and then cut into squares.  I was able to get 150 squares out of a 17 x 11 inch jelly pan. Yes, there are three layers of these chocolate nuggets! YUM!!

Be sure the peanut butter mixture is hot before you pour the chocolate mixture into the pan, and then ACT QUICKLY!  The warmer the ingredients are, the easier it will be to swirl everything together so it looks pretty and the ingredients blend nicely.  I had a phone call between the time I put the chocolate/potato chips in the pan and when I added the peanut butter mixture and had a hard time swirling the peanut butter mixture into the chocolate mixture.  Still tastes like a yummy version of Whatchamacallit candy bar though!

Bacon. Bourbon. Brownie. Bites.

Seriously. How can you go wrong?! 

Since I was cooking for the masses, I modified the original recipe a bit and used Betty Crocker Fudge Brownie mixes.  I followed the directions on the box to make them more "cake-like" by adding an extra egg.  I'm sure the original recipe tastes much better as far as the brownie part goes, so here's the link to the original recipe. 

First, heat the oven to 350 degrees and toast the pecans until you can just start to smell them.

Then fry up some bacon until it's just barely crispy. Yes, that is a pound and a half of bacon. Remember, I'm tripling the recipe to feed around 75 people!

This is where I started to cheat. Good ole Betty Crocker did most of the work.  The box said 2/3C of oil so I measured 3T of bacon grease and then topped it off with enough oil to get 2/3C.

Next, I introduced 3T of Mr. Beam to Miss Crocker. They seemed to get along quite nicely!

Pour the batter into buttered 13"x9" pans and then chopped up 1/2 pound of bacon and 1/2C of pecans.

Sprinkle the mixture on top of the brownie batter and bake for 25 minutes.

Let the brownies cool and then cut to serve!  I cut these to be bite-sized and got 48 brownies out of each pan!

They packed up nicely in a pineapple and spinach container I saved to reuse. We will be able to serve them right out of these containers. Can't wait to hear what everyone thinks!