Yipeeeee!!!

Ingredients

• 1 cup Salted Butter, softened
• 2 cups Sugar
• 1 250 gram package of Philadelphia Cream Cheese
• 3 Eggs
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour
• 3/4 cup Cocoa Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 5 cups Chocolate Chips
• 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil
• 1 250 to 450 gram container of caramel sauce (depends on how much you love caramel)
• 2 tablespoons Rum
• 2 tablespoons Butter
• 18 Sturdy lollypop or popsicle sticks

Instructions

1. With mixer whip butter, sugar and cream cheese until light and fluffy
2. Add the eggs and vanilla and mix until well blended
3. In a seperate bowl mix the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt
4. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and combine
5. Add 1 cup of the chocolate chips to the batter.
6. Pour into 2 - 9 x 9 inch baking pans. Make sure that they are parchment paper lined! You will need to do this to lift the brownies out of the pans
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
8. Once cooked let cool for 15 minutes
9. Lift brownies out of pans and cut each pan into 9 equal squares (making 18)
10. Transfer the brownies onto a parchment lined cookie sheet
11. With the brownies (still) on the parchment paper insert the sticks into the side of each one (making sure they are almost all the way through)
12. Place in freezer for 2 hours
13. Mean while put the caramel in a pot and warm gently on the stove until just warm. Add the rum and butter and stir well.
14. Take the brownies out of the freezer and top each with a generous amount of caramel. Put back in the freezer for 30 minutes.
15. Gently melt your remaining chocolate chips.
16. Once melted add the 1 tbsp of vegetable oil and stir well
17. Take the brownies out of the freezer and top with chocolate. Use your finger to smear it around the top and the sides.
18. Place back in the freezer until firm then transfer to a container with a tight fitting lid.
19. Store in freezer until ready to eat.... YUM!!