These Butterscotch Bars, creatively prepared with Duncan Hines French Vanilla Cake Mix, have a delightful butterscotch flavor and a pleasing crunch from pecans. Sharing is enjoyable, tasty, and simple.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr |
| Servings: | 20 |
| Yield: | 20 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 package Duncan Hines® Moist Deluxe® French Vanilla Cake Mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup butter or margarine, melted
- ¾ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (12 ounce) package butterscotch chips
- 1 ½ cups chopped pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 x 1-inch jelly-roll pan.
- Combine cake mix, eggs, melted butter, brown sugar and vanilla extract in large bowl. Beat at low speed with electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Stir in butterscotch chips and pecans. Spread in pan.
- Bake at 375 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown. Cool completely. Cut into bars.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 375 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 41 g |
| Cholesterol | 43 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 2 g |
| Saturated Fat | 11 g |
| Sodium | 254 mg |
| Sugars | 31 g |
| Fat | 23 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I used a regular yellow cake mix because it’s what I had. Used half butterscotch chips and half chocolate, because my husband is a “if it doesn’t have chocolate it’s not really dessert ” guy. It was yummy. I think it would have been better with all butterscotch, but my husband liked the chocolate.
I made these one evening for my girlfriend. I took the advice of another member and used pudding mix. They were quite good.
These were so good & I will be making them again. they’re quite rich which is fine with me. I did leave the nuts out.
The only changes I made were to add French Vanilla Pudding Mix with roughly 1/4 c. of sour cream, as well as adding 1/3 dark chocolate chips and 2/3 butterscotch chips. My cake mix was a plain white one, which is why I added the pudding mix and sour cream; was way too thick without that. Browned up beautifully! I do not have a jelly roll pan, but I used a large cake pan and had to cook it longer, therefore. Easy peasy! I will make these again and again, so thank you so much for sharing this!
I will probably make these again. I did make a few changes. I used a Pamela’s Gluten free vanilla cake mix. I used 1/2 cup pecans, 1/2 cup chocolate chips, 1/2 cup butterscotch chips and 1/2 cup heath chips. It is super buttery and like others it did not set in the middle. I took it out of the oven and chopped off the edges and put it back in for 15 min. It is really sweet, but my husband loves sweets and it was a winner with him. It was super easy and quick.
Made them exactly the way written and everyone loved them. Not much more to say…
Definitely will make again. Super simple. Might add coconut next time. But this is for a family get together and several don’t eat coconut. So left it out.
I made several variations of this recipe and they all went over really well at work. It’s super simple and quick to throw together. I had a hard time getting them to cook in the middle, but I am a disaster in the kitchen, so I blame myself not the recipe. In the end I just left them in longer and ended up cutting off the overcooked outer edges. The original recipe makes a VERY sweet bar. Most popular variation I made was: substitute chocolate cake mix, peanut butter chips, and salted peanuts. I also made a carrot cake version with white chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.
I made these as directed only used half butterscotch and half chocolate chips. Also added minced pecans. Baked for 20 minutes only. Outstanding!
I made these for a charity bake sale and they all bought in a short time. People came back and bought seconds.
Didn’t change a thing except I used Betty Crocker French Vanilla, store did not have Dunkin Hines. Super easy, very sweet.
Yummy!!
I added mini chocolate chips as I didn’t have the right amount of butterscotch chips. It turned out delicious. My kids loved it too. I drizzled smuckers caramel sauce on top.