Salted Caramels Recipe (Great for Gift Giving)
on Oct 23, 2014, Updated Oct 21, 2020
This Salted Caramels Recipe has been a HUGE hit at our house. I think we have just a few homemade caramels left after making a batch yesterday. If you are a fan of caramels you are going to be “oohing” and “awing” over these home made salted caramels. This recipe does come with a warning of “Totally Addicting” attached. Last holiday season we made Salted Caramel for jar gifts and they were absolutely perfect. This year I wanted to make individually wrapped salted caramels for gifts. The recipe came out perfect and I know it will be great for gift giving this holiday season.
Salted Caramels Recipe
Each piece of these Salted Caramels is like a mini slice of heaven. The texture is melt in your mouth goodness! I can honestly say I have never enjoyed ANY piece of candy that tasted this good.
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The recipe was not complicated at all and one batch did not take that long to make. You could spend one day whipping up caramels. Then wrap each little slice of caramel heaven in a piece of wax paper (be sure to tie the ends). Then drop some into a Mason jar, small gift box or tin from the Dollar Store or Target. These caramels looked as thought they purchased at a fine candy company.
As you can see the texture had the perfect amount of stretch. Our Salted Caramels were not to hard and not to soft. With a slight dusting of sea salt to make them absolutely PERFECT!
The ingredients needed to make homemade caramels are very simple and inexpensive. Make up quite a few Christmas Gifts with little $’s.
INGREDIENTS
1 cup Heavy Cream
1/2 cup Butter
1 1/2 cup Sugar
1/4 cup Corn Syrup
1/4 cup Water
1/2 tsp Vanilla
1/2 tsp Coarse Sea Salt
DIRECTIONS
Spray with non stick spray and line an 9×5 loaf dish with parchment so that excess paper comes up the sides.
Cut up butter into slices and combine with cream and microwave 1-2 minutes until butter is melted.
In the medium to large saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup, and water.
Stir just until the sugar is moistened and uniform, being careful not to splash sugar on sides.
Heat over medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil.
Cover with a lid for 1 minute (this helps wash any sugar on sides back in).
Remove lid and do not stir the after this point.
Place the pot with the sugar mixture over medium to medium-high heat.
Let the sugar syrup come to a boil without stirring.
Cook until mixture reaches 320, the syrup will begin to darken slightly.
Turn off the heat and slowly add the warm cream and butter mixture a little at a time while gently whisking (will bubble violently).
Turn burner back on to medium-high.
Let the caramel come to a boil and reach 240 without stirring.
Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla.
Pour into the prepared pan.
Cool 20 to 30 minutes then scatter the salt over the caramel.
Let the caramel cool 4 hours.
Lift out of the pan using parchment paper and onto a cutting board.
If caramels are still too soft, refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Cut the caramels into candies with a very sharp knife.
Cut squares of wax paper a little larger than caramels.
Wrap each in the wax paper and twist the ends.
Salted Caramels Recipe (Great for Gift Giving)
Ingredients
- 1 cup Heavy Cream
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 1 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/4 cup Corn Syrup
- 1/4 cup Water
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla
- 1/2 tsp Coarse Sea Salt
Instructions
- Spray with non stick spray and line an 9x5 loaf dish with parchment so that excess paper comes up the sides.
- Cut up butter into slices and combine with cream and microwave 1-2 minutes until butter is melted.
- In the medium to large saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup, and water.
- Stir just until the sugar is moistened and uniform, being careful not to splash sugar on sides.
- Heat over medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil.
- Cover with a lid for 1 minute (this helps wash any sugar on sides back in).
- Remove lid and do not stir the after this point.
- Place the pot with the sugar mixture over medium to medium-high heat.
- Let the sugar syrup come to a boil without stirring.
- Cook until mixture reaches 320, the syrup will begin to darken slightly.
- Turn off the heat and slowly add the warm cream and butter mixture a little at a time while gently whisking (will bubble violently).
- Turn burner back on to medium-high.
- Let the caramel come to a boil and reach 240 without stirring.
- Remove from heat and whisk in the vanilla.
- Pour into the prepared pan.
- Cool 20 to 30 minutes then scatter the salt over the caramel.
- Let the caramel cool 4 hours.
- Lift out of the pan using parchment paper and onto a cutting board.
- If caramels are still too soft, refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Cut the caramels into candies with a very sharp knife.
- Cut squares of wax paper a little larger than caramels.
- Wrap each in the wax paper and twist the ends.
Hi, thinking of making these but I don’t get the size pan you mention to use as a 9×5 loaf pan doesn’t seem right as it’s so deep and not a lot of area at the bottom. How many caramels does this recipe make? Thanks.
I have never made caramel that had to be heated to 320 degrees and then the cream was added. Do you know why this is done?
So I made these and they are amazing. Only thing that went wrong is they are too soft. I did use them to make turtles and that turned out amazing! How do I get them to hold their shape just a little better?
What is corn syrup? And what can I subsitute for it?
These look yummy! I hope I get some time to try this recipe!
This look so yummy. I love sweet and salty together. Pinned it and featuring it on the upcoming Wonderful Wednesday blog hop on Ducks ‘n a Row!!! Yipee!!!
I’m excited to try these. Earlier this month I tried to make homemade caramel for caramel apples and it turned out so hard and crunchy that only my boys would eat it (they will eat anything, so that doesn’t count). I will attempt caramels again for this treat!!
These look incredible! I have a list of candies I make every year for gifts, and these caramels would be a welcome addition to the group. They are gorgeous! I would love if you would share this at Celebrate It! It’s our blog party where we celebrate the everyday things that we do!
https://thefreshmancook.blogspot.com/2014/10/celebrate-it-blog-party-15.html
These look delicious! I’ve been wanting to make caramels for years, but never have for some reason. Pinning for later and hopefully I’ll get the chance to try them this year!
Thanks for sharing!
Yum, yum, yum! Delicious!!!
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These salted caramels look wonderful! :D Oooh I these would make great gifts. Stopping by from Wonderful Wednesday.
Have a happy halloween!
I have been thinking about making candies this year for gift giving instead of my regular cookies. Pinning this because they look delicious.
found you on Wonderful Wednesdays.
Yum, yum! This sounds really good over ice-cream right now…
My daughter has fallen in love with salted caramels! I can’t wait to make these for her…..and give them to her at Thanksgiving~ Thanks for stopping by Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop. Lynn
These looked so good I couldn’t not click on your linkup from Timewarpwife. I am so excited to try this recipe and what a great gift idea at Christmas!!!
these are perfect for gift giving
These look so delicious!! Can’t wait to try this recipe out! Thanks for sharing.
Sharon
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Your salted caramels look absolutely beautiful!!!! What a great little gift to give!!! They look so delicious!