And? And it's divine.
Like, I can't believe that caramel with a load of salt in tastes as good as it does.
Now, I don't consider myself all that trendy, but salted caramel is tasty sooooo I thought I'd give it a shot! And not just that but...I baked it into brownies.
You're welcome.
Ingredients for the salted caramel:
- 175g caster sugar
- 150ml double cream
- 10g butter
- a pinch of flaked sea salt
Ingredients for the chocolatey tasty brownies:
- 115g unsalted butter
- 170g chocolate (we used milk but dark also works very very well)
- 25g cocoa powder
- 3 eggs
- 200g caster sugar
- 140g plain flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- a large handful of walnuts (optional)
To make the salted caramel:
- Measure the sugar into a saucepan and put it over a medium heat. Don't stir it, just leave it to melt.
- When it gets to this kind of stage, you can stir it a little bit to make sure it's not burning to the bottom of the pan.
- When the sugar has dissolved and is an even colour (the colour of caramel, surprisingly!), pour in half the cream and salt and stir it like a maniac. Be careful though, the sugar is VERY hot and it will spit at you.
- Once it's calmed down, add the remaining cream and salt and the 10g of butter. Again, stir it like a crazy person.
- We found that a huge lump of caramel formed and it took a lot of work to get it to dissolve but more heat, lots of stirring and a tiny bit of cream should do the trick.
- Once all the lumps are gone, take it off the heat and leave it to cool whilst you make....
The Brownies!
- Preheat your oven to 175C.
- Melt the butter and chocolate together in a glass bowl or jug over a pan of simmering water.
- Once the mixture has melted and cooled a little, stir in the cocoa powder.
- Add the eggs one at a time, stirring after each one.
- Mix in the sugar, salt, vanilla essence and then fold in the flour.
- Chop your walnuts (or pecans or hazelnuts or whatever you like) into sizeable chunks and mix them in too.
- Pour half the mixture into a lined baking tin.
- Spoon half of your caramel in blobs all over the first half of the brownie mix.
- Spread the rest of the brownie mix carefully over the caramel and then, again, blob the salted caramel over the top.
- Bake in your oven for about 30-35 minutes and you will be rewarded with delicious fudgey brownies combined with a gooey salted caramel.
- Might I suggest you enjoy these with a little (or not-so-little) blob of vanilla ice cream? You'll give any of those cake shops and chocolatiers a run for their money with these babies. Enjoy!
