Goober Bars - cooking recipe

Ingredients

BASE
1 (18 ounce) box yellow cake mix
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 egg
BASE ADDITION
3 cups miniature marshmallows
TOPPING
2/3 cup white corn syrup
1/4 cup butter
2 teaspoons vanilla
12 ounces butterscotch chips
2 cups Rice Krispies
2 cups salted peanuts

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350.
Mix the base together and press into an unbuttered pan, 9 x 13, and bake 12 to 16 minutes. Remove from oven and sprinkle 3 cups marshmallows on the base mixture and place back in the oven until marshmallows puff up.
Remove from oven and cool.
While cooling, mix the corn syrup, butter, vanilla and butterscotch chips over low heat , stirring constantly until topping is smooth. Remove from heat and add immediately the Rice Krispies and Peanuts.
Spread topping over the cooled base.
Cut into squares.