I need to find more words for “delicious”!
I’ve never baked with salted caramel before, but the experiment was incredibly successful. I got the original recipe from the BBC Good Food website. It’s very popular and, having read the helpful comments of other testers, I made a couple of changes to the recipe following their recommendations. I’m glad I did!
Ingredients (makes 16 to 32 brownies depending on how big you cut them)
- 200 g / 7 oz butter (at room temperature)
- 100 g / 3.5 oz dark chocolate, min. 70% cocoa solids (mine was 72%, I don’t think it has to be incredibly accurate!)
- 100 g / 3.5 oz chocolate, 50% cocoa solids (again it doesn’t have to be exactly 50%)
- 4 medium eggs (I had 2 large to use up, so used 2 large and 2 medium and it didn’t do any harm)
- 397 g / 14 oz tin of caramel
- 1 tsp of sea salt or rock salt (I only had rock salt, it worked fine. Don’t use table salt because it’s been too finely ground; you need to have salt in large flakes)
- 200 g / 7 oz caster sugar
- 130 g / 4.5 oz plain flour
- 50 g / 1.7 oz cocoa powder
Method
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees C/ 160 degrees C fan/ gas mark 4/ 350 degrees F.
Line your brownie pan or baking tray with baking paper. My tin measures 24 x 20 x 4 cm (approx. 9.5 x 8 x 2 inches). The original recipe calls for a 23-cm square tin. The bigger the tin, the thinner your final brownies will be.
Break the chocolate into small chunks. Melt the butter in a pan over a low heat. When the butter has fully melted, turn off the heat and add the chocolate.
Stir the chocolate through the warm butter until fully melted and combined.
Put about half the caramel in a bowl and add the teaspoon of salt. Mix through the salt and set the bowl to one side.
Put the rest of the caramel in a large bowl and add the eggs and sugar. Use an electric hand mixer (if you don’t have one, don’t worry, you can do this by hand) to blend the ingredients together until smooth.
Pour the chocolate and butter mixture into your large bowl and use the mixer again to combine the ingredients.
Sieve the flour and cocoa powder into another bowl. Add these dry ingredients to your chocolate mixture. Mix all the ingredients together until you have a smooth mixture but go slowly at first to prevent the flour and cocoa powder blowing everywhere!
Pour half the brownie mixture into your prepared tin. Spoon almost all your salted caramel on top of this lower brownie layer in thick lines. I made 4 lines, but the original recipe calls for 5. Reserve a couple of spoonfuls of your caramel to drizzle on top of the brownies later.
Pour the rest of the brownie mixture on top of the caramel stripes and smooth out, taking care not to disturb the caramel.
Bake the salted caramel brownies for 25-30 minutes. I found 25 minutes was enough. It’s ok if the brownie seems to wobble a little when you take it out of the oven. Allow the brownie to cool completely in the tin – this is important.
When they are completely cool, turn the brownie slab out on to a chopping board and cut into as many pieces as you like. I went for 32 pieces.
I also drizzled the remaining salted caramel over the top, although this isn’t an essential step if you’d rather put all the caramel in the centre.
As you can see, the central caramel is soft and gooey:
These salted caramel chocolate brownies are delicious. The slight hint of salt is a great counterpoint to the sweetness of the chocolate and caramel. They would be perfect served warm with some vanilla ice cream… if you can wait long enough to put all that together rather than scoffing them straight from the tin!
Looking for other brownie recipes? Try these!
Chocolate cheesecake brownies.
Cadbury’s Caramel chocolate brownies.
You can find even more brownie recipes on my Recipe Index page.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
I’m positively drooling!
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Heehee! They are lovely. And very easy to make. I’ve already had to promise to make another batch for my friends!
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Always so yummy!
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Thank you! I can confirm that they are very very good indeed 🙂 (even though I do say so myself!).
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Goody! 😜
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oh this looks delicious!!
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They are VERY good!! I still haven’t got round to trying them with ice cream because every time I open the tin I just scoff one!
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hehehe
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These look scrumptious!!! Now I really do wish I was your taste tester 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 I was really pleased with them. And they would also be great with just plain caramel. I think next time I’ll do half the tray salted and half plain – something for everyone! 🙂
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Trying to pick my jaw up off the table. You are a goddess! I have my cup of tea if you’ll just toss one or 5 over my way….
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Thank you very much!
I’ve been happily scoffing them with tea 🙂 I wish I could share them round that easily.
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Last night we were lying on the sofa just staring at them on the laptop. As if they would magically jump out of the screen! lol
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That looks really tempting xx
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They are very nice. I was a bit worried the salt would be odd, but it works really well, strangely enough! 🙂
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These look absolutely delicious! I’m definitely drooling right now.
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Haha! Thank you. They are very nice indeed. I wasn’t convinced the salted caramel would work, but it’s very nice. I would be perfect with some ice cream though 🙂
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Oh I can imagine that! I might try the recipe with dulce de leche as well, although the salty effect would be lost there…
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Drool fest! 🙂
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I’ve eaten far too many of them this evening! I keep thinking, “Oh, that’s enough now. I couldn’t eat another one…” then 2 minutes later I’m scoffing another! At least they’ll run out soon!
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Baking paradise OMG I need to try this!!!
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It is lovely! 🙂 If you get the chance to try it I hope it turns out well 🙂
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Must. Have. Chocolate. 😍
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Haha! I agree! 🙂
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That’s so delicious ! Great combination!! 😍
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These look absolutely scrumptious… a definite MUST TRY !!
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Thank you! They were delicious and I never did get to try them with the ice cream because I couldn’t stop eating them long enough! 🙂
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Sounds like the sort of t hing I would do. Will let you know once I have had a go at making them.
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Ooh those look so good! I love salted-caramel with pretty much everything, so these are right up my alley. And I wouldn’t have the patience to warm them up and add ice cream, either. Open tin, grab brownie, shove in mouth.
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That’s what happened to all of them. I kept thinking, “I must save a couple and have them with ice cream” – didn’t happen!! 🙂
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Caramel, chocolate, gooey yumminess. What’s not to love?
xx K
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That’s what I thought too! 🙂 xx
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This is straight up heaven on a plate!
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Thank you! They were delicious! 🙂
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Yum! Definitely on my to-bake list. Will let you know how they turn out! 😋😋😋
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That’s great! I hope they turn out really well for you. They were delicious! 🙂
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These look absolutely HEAVENLY and if I wasn’t dieting I’d totally try my hand at them. Also worst thing is when people under salt salted caramel!
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Thank you! They turned out really well and I’m now a salted caramel convert 🙂
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wow you’ve just made me hungry! need to give these a try! Thanks for the inspo!
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Thank you!
I hope they turn out well for you. They were delicious! 🙂
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Looks so sumptuous 😍😍
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Thank you! They were delicious 🙂
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My sister made these, and they were absolutely delicious! Thank you for this simple and delicious recipe xx
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I’m so glad she made them and enjoyed them! 🙂 I definitely need to make these again soon xx
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Thanks for sharing!! This looks out of the world
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They were delicious! And I was a little unsure about the salted caramel, but it was lovely 🙂
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