Goomba wrote:
> Other than the obvious nuts or no nuts, does anyone do anything to dress
> up a standard store bought brownie mix?
> Son is holding a "grill & keg" birthday party for his roommate and asked
> me to make a cake. Not having time before work, I just put together some
> brownies but wanted to make them a bit special and came up blank. So for
> future reference......
> Thanks


I usually throw a cup of chocolate chips into the mix and pecans.

I also have two recipes that make yummy variations:

--cream cheese beaten with egg and sugar and swirled through the batter

--melted caramels and something (butter, maybe?) swirled in the batter.

If you are interested I will look up and post one or both recipes.
Both are yummy.

gloria p