Incredible. Now imagine it's Christmas and you're making confections to give away in a pretty be-ribboned box. Inside the box will be this recipe. But it will be cut up into bite sized morsels, with each portion dipped into quality dark chocolate - just enough for a very thin coating. Sigh. Glen, I appreciate you.
Hi Debbie - I make the option you described and give it away for gifts at Christmas. You were obviously thinking t along the same lines as me! BRILLIANT!🇨🇦😌🇨🇦
As a native Californian who lived in Canada for many years, I’ve had the caramel conversation before. The funniest part to me is that the city here is pronounced car-mel, adding another variable to the situation.
Up my alley! No chocolate is needed lol. Now I am your age Glen and grew up in Toronto…and I have to admit I pronounce the A and twitch a little when I hear Carmel. But as my kids would say “ Mom that sounds like a YOU problem” and I have to concur with that. 😂
Just wanted to say you have one of the best channels on TH-cam. Only found you a few months back, but I love it! As someone from Florida, I also say car-mel 😊
As if I needed to love you more, the caramel pronunciation thing is a constant battle in my head. I am from Michigan originally and it will always be carmel for me. ❤
My parents don't watch a lot of TH-cam, so I always relay your latest videos. After about half an hour of telling my mom about these squares, she asked if I could copy off the recipe. Looks like I'll be trying these soon!
As a southern girl, Carmel is the proper pronunciation.. As a 60-something year old,… EAT ANOTHER PIECE!! Your life is meant to be lived! LIVE IT!!! Enjoy!
I am sooo happy that I just happened to see this video...I hope that you (Jules, too) know that your videos are so wonderful! They're entertaining but more importantly they're very educational...and that's not a bad thing. Please keep making them!!! Take care and stay safe! ❤🎉❤🎉
Regarding your advice about hot sugar, I'm reminded of the time I made hard crack toffee and stupidly decided to taste it by swiping some with my finger off the spoon. 3 hours I sat with my hand in ice water before I could bear to move it. I'm just glad I didn't lick it.
Thanks for this option Glen! Due to having Crohn’s disease, I cannot eat a number of things…one of those being Carmel Corn…so this is a DELICIOUS option! I live on the West Coast and call it “CAR-MEL” as well. Have a great weekend!🇨🇦😌
English is a living and dynamic language, so I wouldn’t worry about carmel vs. caramel. I often say carmel myself - not Canadian, but lifelong resident of Ontario’s south shore, so close enough. Also,as I watched this, I thought about maybe sprinkling chocolate chips over the pretzel crust before baking, then using pecans or other nuts instead of peanuts. This does sound absolutely delicious, and yes evil, and I must try it. Thank you for a yummy recipe!
This video made Hubs and me LOL! "I thought oh, that looks good. Then I realized it was one of our videos, from 2012." Hahaha! This Pure Evil reminded me of a gas station counter impulse product from the past, called Peco Candy. -- Decaden 3 inch diameter discs of praline-ish caramel, peanuts and coconut. "There's a reason we never made these again." LOLOL! Love you guys!
I don't usually make candy, but that looks like a keeper. BTW, native Californian here. As a child in the 50s and 60s I always heard "carmel." Later television ads used "car-a-mel" which cause me to think I must be in error and had to change.
My daughter had injured herself and is in a lot of pain. I thought that I'd make her a treat. I remembered seeing this video so I gave them a try. They were excellent and helped cheer her up. The only problem I had was using unbroken pretzels and trying to break them up while mixing them with the sugar and butter. I should have used a food processor first.
This looks fantastic, like the homemade version of a "PayDay" bar. I grew up on the East Coast and I say "car-mel". In Missouri, where I now live, they say "car-mel". Only on television have I heard anyone actually pronounce it as "car-a-mel."
For Caramel I always added the butter/cream after I took the melted sugar off the heat! It sounds like you can add everything all at once! I learned something new today! Thanks!
Carmel's good 😊. If you are interested, recipes (on other cooking shows too) are showing up again in the description, yay 🎉!!!. For some reason they had disappeared from all the shows that I subscribe to. So happy they are back.
I’m from California … I support your Carmel pronunciation too !!! Accent on the first syllable for the candy … accent on the second syllable for the geographical locations … EASY👍🏼
Language is such a wonderfully fluid thing, some folks here in the Northern US, my grandmother included, say carmal/carmel rather than caramel. I make butter caramels in a very similar way but instead of peanuts I use slivered almonds or crushed pistachios, and no pretzels as I often make this as gifts and many of my close friends and family either have peanut allergies or celiac. This though, this is something I should make for my grandmother, as it has all of the things she'd just love.
I was shocked when he said the California town and mispronounced the name. As a native Californian and having visited and lived an hour or so away from that town, I always pronounced it as CarMEL too.
Made this with almond M&M's. put them on top of the pretzel crust after it cooled while the caramel was heating and pressed them in before covering with the caramel, OMG that is truly EVIL on a new level!!!
These look amazing. I too pronounce it carmel. I actually live on the central coast of California and the city in reference is pronounce "Car-mel' down here. Definitely be careful with sugar, when I was a child my parents were making mixed nut brittle for the holidays and some slid off the cookie sheet onto my mother's foot landing her in the ER with 2nd degree burns.
"If you have a problem with self-regulation!" Indeed. "Well, Coroner, cause of death a combination of tasty Pretzel Peanut Caramel Squares and a lack of self-regulation?" "That's how I see it, Inspector. Say; there's half a platter left of those treats. Shall we?"
I call it car-mel when taking about apples or popcorn (something super sticky and firm), and caramel when taking about a sauce. Just another weird quirk from my home, in Utah. 😊😂
“Carmel” pronunciation all the way, Glen! I say it the same way as you, and I am from Zeeland, Michigan. That said, it tastes great no matter how you pronounce it.😊 Thank you for another great recipe!
I am new to watching your videos, I just was watching this one😊 say "Carmel" however you Want to say it however it is said> it is okay😁 I say it like you, I don't care, it is how I have always said it and will continue to say it this wayThat doesn't matter just KEEP putting out these awesome video
My mum used to make something similar when I was a kid, except it was a shortbread type base instead of the pretzels. So delicious and I dont really like peanuts, but I LOVED this!
Growing up in Northeast Ohio, we called it Carmel- like Kraft Carmels, but we also used the term Car-a-mel meaning that real soft viscous version that you find in candy bars.
Newfoundlander here from the Burin Peninsula, and i always say caramel. I always think of Caramilk bars when i think of the word, and that's where i first learned the word i guess, as my family never made candy at home.
This looks wonderful, and exactly the kind of thing I didn't need to know about while having a load of pretzels and almonds to use up. Might have to add in a load of rice krispies or something, just to make myself feel more okay with it!
I added dark chocolate chips. But my big tip is to pay attention to the size of the pretzel crumbs. I should have given it a couple more pulses in the Cuisinart my first time with this recipe.
I'm in Iowa. We always say carmel. I thought the City in California put the accent in the second syllable. As in car MEL. It's Mt Carmel or Mt Karmel, I saw road signs spelling it both ways when I visited the Middle East. However you soell it ir pronounce it, this is delicious.
I just watched the video for the first time today. Since you just made these recently, can you tell me if there was a mistake in the amount of corn syrup written compared to what Glen added in the video? It looks as though Glen added 1/4 cup corn syrup but the written instructions say 3/4 cup. Thanks
I’m kind of similar, though I do have a loosely defined rule. The cheap stuff from a bottle or a can is carmel. Homemade stuff or expensive imported, that’s caramel.
Incredible. Now imagine it's Christmas and you're making confections to give away in a pretty be-ribboned box. Inside the box will be this recipe. But it will be cut up into bite sized morsels, with each portion dipped into quality dark chocolate - just enough for a very thin coating. Sigh. Glen, I appreciate you.
Hi Debbie - I make the option you described and give it away for gifts at Christmas. You were obviously thinking t along the same lines as me! BRILLIANT!🇨🇦😌🇨🇦
What about a thin layer of crushed candy canes
Oooo! I like the way you think. I was just thinking drizzling some chocolate on the top but maybe just a whole thin layer of chocolate.
@@ebhendricks Not sure mint and peanuts work unless it's an alternative flavor of candy canes?
@@TheLadyLuck523 YUMMO!…and no one has to slave over their HEATED stove to make such “delectsble” GOODIES!!😉
Cara-mel and I are good friends, we are past that formal stage and they let me call them carmel.
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This is my favorite couple on the internet.
As a native Californian who lived in Canada for many years, I’ve had the caramel conversation before. The funniest part to me is that the city here is pronounced car-mel, adding another variable to the situation.
Yeah, that was a record scratch moment for me. CAR-mul, California??? Please, it's Car-MEL.
I was born and raised in San Jose and came here to make a similar comment lol
Shit I made mine before I scrolled down 😂 Napa myself, though lived in mountain view, Vallejo, and Berkeley.
Yep, CarMEL, emphasis on the second syllable.
Live in CarMel, CA and can confirm :) There is also one in Indiana but I'm not sure how they pronounce theirs.
Glen's comment about self regulation was for me because I so want to make this.
Up my alley! No chocolate is needed lol. Now I am your age Glen and grew up in Toronto…and I have to admit I pronounce the A and twitch a little when I hear Carmel. But as my kids would say “ Mom that sounds like a YOU problem” and I have to concur with that. 😂
As a Michigander, I support your pronunciation of “carmel” 😂
Iowan here, and I've always said carmel.
I’m from southern Indiana, and also support the ‘carmel’ pronunciation. Saying ‘caramel’ just sounds like I’m trying to put on airs 😂
I use both (Michigander that lived in NE Indiana and moved to SE Indiana). Carmel coloring, caramel filling.
@@callaw.8869 Detroiter here, I agree completely. Only snooty folk say caramel.
I grew up in the PNW and we called pronounced it the same way.
Just wanted to say you have one of the best channels on TH-cam. Only found you a few months back, but I love it! As someone from Florida, I also say car-mel 😊
As if I needed to love you more, the caramel pronunciation thing is a constant battle in my head. I am from Michigan originally and it will always be carmel for me. ❤
My part of upstate NY said “carmel”, also. Maybe parts of states bordering Canada did. That looks so good!
It's carmel in Cincinnati also.
Yes! Walk into a candy shop in Michigan and ask for "caramel". Let us Michiganders know what happens...
My parents don't watch a lot of TH-cam, so I always relay your latest videos. After about half an hour of telling my mom about these squares, she asked if I could copy off the recipe. Looks like I'll be trying these soon!
As a southern girl, Carmel is the proper pronunciation.. As a 60-something year old,… EAT ANOTHER PIECE!! Your life is meant to be lived! LIVE IT!!! Enjoy!
As my uncle says, "Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first!"
Absolutely, Leslie. I couldn't have possibly said it better myself. 😊😉
I am sooo happy that I just happened to see this video...I hope that you (Jules, too) know that your videos are so wonderful! They're entertaining but more importantly they're very
educational...and that's not a bad thing. Please keep making them!!! Take care and stay safe!
❤🎉❤🎉
Regarding your advice about hot sugar, I'm reminded of the time I made hard crack toffee and stupidly decided to taste it by swiping some with my finger off the spoon. 3 hours I sat with my hand in ice water before I could bear to move it. I'm just glad I didn't lick it.
What a perfect Saturday morning video…looks delicious, will be making this shortly…cheers from N.B.
Thanks for this option Glen! Due to having Crohn’s disease, I cannot eat a number of things…one of those being Carmel Corn…so this is a DELICIOUS option!
I live on the West Coast and call it “CAR-MEL” as well.
Have a great weekend!🇨🇦😌
English is a living and dynamic language, so I wouldn’t worry about carmel vs. caramel. I often say carmel myself - not Canadian, but lifelong resident of Ontario’s south shore, so close enough. Also,as I watched this, I thought about maybe sprinkling chocolate chips over the pretzel crust before baking, then using pecans or other nuts instead of peanuts. This does sound absolutely delicious, and yes evil, and I must try it. Thank you for a yummy recipe!
I grew up saying 'CARmel', so agree with you too. Grew up in Washington state. The city in CA is not CARmel, it is carMEL.
This video made Hubs and me LOL! "I thought oh, that looks good. Then I realized it was one of our videos, from 2012." Hahaha! This Pure Evil reminded me of a gas station counter impulse product from the past, called Peco Candy. -- Decaden 3 inch diameter discs of praline-ish caramel, peanuts and coconut. "There's a reason we never made these again." LOLOL! Love you guys!
Chocolate on top? More yum! I would love this, but it is not on my diet, so I will just enjoy watching you eat it. Thank you!
I was going to say that as long as he's going this far into evilness, he may as well go the rest of the way and top it with chocolate.
"If you have problems with self-regulation, possibly not the recipe for you." LOL
I don't usually make candy, but that looks like a keeper.
BTW, native Californian here. As a child in the 50s and 60s I always heard "carmel." Later television ads used "car-a-mel" which cause me to think I must be in error and had to change.
This is one of those recipes that you want to try two pieces of, but don't want the rest tempting you. Looks fantastic - Thanks Glen and Julie.
My daughter had injured herself and is in a lot of pain. I thought that I'd make her a treat. I remembered seeing this video so I gave them a try. They were excellent and helped cheer her up. The only problem I had was using unbroken pretzels and trying to break them up while mixing them with the sugar and butter. I should have used a food processor first.
This looks fantastic, like the homemade version of a "PayDay" bar. I grew up on the East Coast and I say "car-mel". In Missouri, where I now live, they say "car-mel". Only on television have I heard anyone actually pronounce it as "car-a-mel."
You had me at evil. 😂😋
For Caramel I always added the butter/cream after I took the melted sugar off the heat! It sounds like you can add everything all at once! I learned something new today! Thanks!
😂😎👍👍 nailed the sentiment and the pronunciation 🎉🍻
I'm from Seattle, and I and everyone I know pronounces it like you do, Glen.
Imagine those little squares then dipped in melted chocolate! 😋
Could also see this with a chocolate or butterscotch layer!
I was just thinking about a scattering of chocolate chips over the top.
Love butterscotch.
Would you add the peanuts then half the caramel, then chocolate chips and the remaining caramel?
@@maremacd I'd do the chocolate/butterscotch layer on the top. I'm thinking a ganache would be a good choice.
Going off-topic here, Julie that's a lovely sweater you've got on. I love the colour pooling in it.
We say it the same in Tennessee! You're good!!
Carmel's good 😊. If you are interested, recipes (on other cooking shows too) are showing up again in the description, yay 🎉!!!. For some reason they had disappeared from all the shows that I subscribe to. So happy they are back.
I’m from California … I support your Carmel pronunciation too !!! Accent on the first syllable for the candy … accent on the second syllable for the geographical locations … EASY👍🏼
Language is such a wonderfully fluid thing, some folks here in the Northern US, my grandmother included, say carmal/carmel rather than caramel. I make butter caramels in a very similar way but instead of peanuts I use slivered almonds or crushed pistachios, and no pretzels as I often make this as gifts and many of my close friends and family either have peanut allergies or celiac. This though, this is something I should make for my grandmother, as it has all of the things she'd just love.
We say "karmul," in southern Illinois and Missouri, too.
An Australian candy company makes bars of a concoction very similar to this. they were my favourite as a child.
Evil or not, I’m making this! Also, I thought the California town is pronounced CarMEL (though, who cares).
I was shocked when he said the California town and mispronounced the name. As a native Californian and having visited and lived an hour or so away from that town, I always pronounced it as CarMEL too.
I live next door to ya, in Arizona. I’ve only heard the carMel pronunciation.
That is some good stuff... Oh deliver us from temptation, blessings 💖🙏👑✝
Made this with almond M&M's. put them on top of the pretzel crust after it cooled while the caramel was heating and pressed them in before covering with the caramel, OMG that is truly EVIL on a new level!!!
As a Yooper, I have to agree that carmel is the correct way! These look soooo good.
These look amazing. I too pronounce it carmel. I actually live on the central coast of California and the city in reference is pronounce "Car-mel' down here. Definitely be careful with sugar, when I was a child my parents were making mixed nut brittle for the holidays and some slid off the cookie sheet onto my mother's foot landing her in the ER with 2nd degree burns.
Carmel also used in southern Minnesota.
This looks amazing! I am from MA in the US and I say caramel the same way you do. That's the right way. ;) I shall make this SOON!
My kids would absolutely love this. I'm not so sure if I could handle it.
I’m in my early 60s and from the west coast of the US. I pronounce caramel the way you do. This looks amazing and I must make it as soon as possible!
That looks sinfully delicious.
This looks delicious! I made your rice crispy/milky way bars last week ...this looks even better
Can not wait to make this!! Yum.
"If you have a problem with self-regulation!" Indeed. "Well, Coroner, cause of death a combination of tasty Pretzel Peanut Caramel Squares and a lack of self-regulation?" "That's how I see it, Inspector. Say; there's half a platter left of those treats. Shall we?"
I call it car-mel when taking about apples or popcorn (something super sticky and firm), and caramel when taking about a sauce. Just another weird quirk from my home, in Utah. 😊😂
Yummy in the Tummy
“Carmel” pronunciation all the way, Glen! I say it the same way as you, and I am from Zeeland, Michigan. That said, it tastes great no matter how you pronounce it.😊
Thank you for another great recipe!
In the USA, it’s Carmel like city😁. Truly, I have never heard any other way. Recipe sounds amazing!
I could see channeling Chef John and adding some cayenne. That sweet, salty, spicy combo would be good.
I was thinking some spicy peanuts, just a few.
BBQ peanuts or the hickory smoked almonds.
I just made this and it's obscenely delicious.
I am new to watching your videos, I just was watching this one😊 say "Carmel" however you Want to say it however it is said> it is okay😁 I say it like you, I don't care, it is how I have always said it and will continue to say it this wayThat doesn't matter just KEEP putting out these awesome video
We here in Chicagoland also say "carmel"... lol. Keep up the good work!
YUMMMMMY!.... I'm going to have to make this.
My mum used to make something similar when I was a kid, except it was a shortbread type base instead of the pretzels. So delicious and I dont really like peanuts, but I LOVED this!
I remember always calling the candy Kraft "carmels"... but chocolate bars with caramel... Fascinating entomology of the words we use.
Growing up in Northeast Ohio, we called it Carmel- like Kraft Carmels, but we also used the term Car-a-mel meaning that real soft viscous version that you find in candy bars.
Definitely adding this to my repertoire. You do you. Carmel it is!
That looks so ooo good!!! Yum
Newfoundlander here from the Burin Peninsula, and i always say caramel. I always think of Caramilk bars when i think of the word, and that's where i first learned the word i guess, as my family never made candy at home.
These look fantastic. In my mind carmels are those little square individually wrapped Kraft candies and caramel is a sauce.
Caramel/carmel (however you choose to say it) is All Good 😊
It would be great around the holidays in a gift tin.
OMG that looks TOO GOOD!! **I will NEVER make it - TOO TEMPTING!!!🤪😂😂😂😂
Check out Glen's saltine toffee crunch for another evil recipe. You'll need to exercise caution, as they're so very addictive!
Around Philadelphia Pennsylvania we pronounce it as Carmel also
It’s carmel for me! Greetings from Ohio!
This recipe looks SO good!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
😮😊❤ Glenn has broken the internet ❤😊😮
This looks wonderful, and exactly the kind of thing I didn't need to know about while having a load of pretzels and almonds to use up. Might have to add in a load of rice krispies or something, just to make myself feel more okay with it!
I added dark chocolate chips. But my big tip is to pay attention to the size of the pretzel crumbs. I should have given it a couple more pulses in the Cuisinart my first time with this recipe.
Agree. I didn't make them small enough nor let it cool enough. Some parts has pretzels inside and it's not bad
Thank you
No matter how you say it it's good
Just exactly what I needed today! Can't wait to try it.
So wrong, yet, so, right! I must try this recipe soon. And, my parents raised me to pronounce it carmel too.
I'm in Iowa. We always say carmel. I thought the City in California put the accent in the second syllable. As in car MEL. It's Mt Carmel or Mt Karmel, I saw road signs spelling it both ways when I visited the Middle East. However you soell it ir pronounce it, this is delicious.
Looks amazing, tho I'm definitely in the "in needs some dark chocolate" camp. I think I'll try that sometime. Thanks Glen!
I did this and it twas amazing!! 2nd Time I used Cashews and it was even better!!
I just watched the video for the first time today. Since you just made these recently, can you tell me if there was a mistake in the amount of corn syrup written compared to what Glen added in the video? It looks as though Glen added 1/4 cup corn syrup but the written instructions say 3/4 cup. Thanks
I'm from the US (Massachusetts), and I say carmel, too.
It's too good to make!
I honestly say Carmel and caramel interchangeably. I might say carmel a little more often but I know I use both.
I’m kind of similar, though I do have a loosely defined rule. The cheap stuff from a bottle or a can is carmel. Homemade stuff or expensive imported, that’s caramel.
I grew up seeing it spelled carmel in old cookbooks. I was surprised when someone showed me a label with it spelled caramel.
I have to make that!!!
Live in mid Missouri and everyone i know pronounces it car-mel. Regardless of how you pronounce it, sounds great.
I say Car-mel no A too. And corn syrup is not a bad thing in my book. I buy the kind labeled "no high fructose" though. I deff want to try tins recipe
Maria Cookies would be great as the base layer!
I would use Cashews!
I'm from Philly and we say Carmel. Mmmm carmel corn from Johnson's popcorn in Ocean City NJ. That looks evil indeed. Might need some m&ms
Wow...I will be making this...I will venture into the danger zone!!
Ok... going to make this for a Christmas platter!!!!
I think every life should have some well chosen evil in it....
I’m approximately your age from Little Rock, Arkansas, and I say it like you, Glen;). Kar-mel.
In Wisconsin tend to hear "Carmel" also. Sprinkle some chocolate chips on top. Looks like homade Payday bar...
I wonder how a layer of chocolate chips, under the caramel, would be. Or sprinkled on with the peanuts on top. This must be amazing!
This looks delicious, amd also like something I really should not get in the habit of making 😅
Ok does Julie knit her sweaters because I am in love with them
Yum!
Similar to a homemade Payday bar! Yum😋
Only better!