If you are watching your weight DO NOT make these bars!! They are so good you cannot stop yourself.
This recipe is from my friend Debbie. She is a great cook and is always bringing something good to school. I e-mailed her and said, ” I want that recipe for whatever you brought to school last Christmas. I cannot remember what’s in it . I just remember that it was delicious.” That gave her alot to go on. We are lucky to get this with that kind of information. In spite of my memory Debbie came through for me.
All right so I am baking these bars with very limited time. It is 10:00 and I have to take them to my tennis match by 2:00. Everything that could go wrong does. I pulled out the cake mix and the use by date had expired by 2 weeks. Just for me I would have used it, but with my luck no telling what would have happened!! Now a trip to the grocery. Thanks goodness I pulled out everything else that I would need including the pan. Oh, wait there is NO PAN. Forgot I had thrown it away. Just for your information don’t make lasagna in an aluminum pan because after so many years the tomato sauce will eat holes in it. So GI Joe is off to the store to buy a pan and a cake mix. He does not shop. He knows nothing about baking pans. After 15 minutes on the phone we settle for the heavy duty Wilton pan. Just remember that when you are baking in a dark pan to turn the oven down 25 degrees. I didn’t!! Almost burned! I did make it to my match on time with the bars and they were enjoyed.
Thanks to Debbie for the recipe . Here it is for you to enjoy, too.
1 stick of melted butter
Butter Recipe Cake Mix
1 egg
1 cup chopped Pecans
Mix with wooden spoon
Place in a 9 x 13 in. pan
Spread in the pan
1 box powdered sugar, 2 eggs, 8 oz cream cheese
Mix with mixer
Pour on top of cake mixture
When using a dark pan like this one make sure that you lower your oven temperature by 25 degrees. I failed to do this and they were very nearly burned!!!
Park Avenue Bars - Wonderful !
Here is the recipe. Enjoy!
Park Avenue Bars
- 1 Duncan Hines Butter Yellow cake mix
- 1 stick butter melted
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup chopped nuts
- 1 box powdered sugar
- 8 oz. cream cheese softened
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 9 x 13 in. baking dish. Mix by hand the cake mix, 1 egg, melted butter and chopped pecans. Press down into bottom of greased baking dish. Set aside. Mix well in mixer powdered sugar, 2 eggs, and cream cheese. Pour on top of crust . Bake about 40 min. (until the top is golden brown). Cool before cutting.
Happy Cooking,
The Teacher Cooks
The Teacher Cooks 
mmm. what an awesome treat 🙂 drool!
yummy i really want to try one of these!
I HAD THOSE BEFORE & IT TASTE LIKE YOU BITEING INTO HEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARE YOU MAKING THOSE IN CLASS? 🙂
these bars look delicious*! (: i am a total sucker for cream cheese in ANY recipe. yummmmm (:
This recipe sounds really good. Could we add chocolate if we wanted to add another sweet treat to the recipe?? 🙂
These look delicious! Just a thought, do you have to add pecans or could you leave them out? I may have to make these someday!
that looks awsome i want to try some! i bet they are delicious.
Those look delicious, minus the pecans! I’ll have to make them 🙂
So this looked really good. It made me hungry. I like how you add pecans! 🙂
These look good, minus the pecans! I bet they’d be good with some chocolate on top too!
It must have been fun to make! They look great 🙂
These bars seem really good! Even though you said they almost burned and everything, they still look great! I think that chocolate would be good with this too! haha
These look fabulous! and they don’t look very hard to make either!
The pecans don’t look so appetizing, not a nut kind of person, but the rest sounds good, and fun to make!
these look great. im sure theyd be even better with chocolate on them!
This looks very appetizing! Could we substitute the pecans with a fruit or some other nut?..not a very big fan of pecans.
These look amazing. Everyone else is right, chocolate would probably make them even better.
i have to admitt.. these look pretty good.
Yummy! (:
Im gonna go make some of theses whenever i get home tonight (:
These have to be the best sounding thing you’ve made yet. I’ve got to try these this weekend.
These sound amazing 🙂 I might make some at home!
Well, since the only weight I’m watching is the gaining of it….. I am sure making these would be the right thing to do..
They look YUMMY! Thanks so much for sharing!
Nice recipe, they look great…
look delicious 🙂
I really do wonder what these taste like. I’m going to have to make these at home and test them out.
The title “Park Avenue”, grabbed my attention. It seems that you can make these simply w/ cake batter and pecans. I will try this recipe asap, my mom lovesss pecans. 🙂