Salted Caramel Brownies are rich and fudgy packed with chocolate chips, flaky salt, and ooey gooey caramel! Perfect for any sweet tooth craving!
If you love chocolate and caramel, this is the dessert for you. This is definitely a must try recipe!!
Last weekend, I was craving chocolate, but was feeling too lazy to make something complicated. I asked my hubby what sounded good, and we both decided on brownies.
Since I was tired of a plain ol’ brownie, I raided the pantry in hopes for finding something to jazz it up. I came across a bag of caramels and knew we could put those to use! My hubby even offered to make the dessert, so away he went whipping these up!
Salted Caramel Brownies have a gooey caramel center packed in a fudgy chocolate brownie, with sea salt sprinkled on top!
In no time, we had fudge like, chocolate brownies, with a gooey caramel layer in the middle. These made an amazing dessert, and we definitely will be making them again! Brownie points (pun intended) for my hubby since he was the one that did all the work!!
Check out these other great chocolate recipes:
Raspberry Chocolate Chip Cookies
No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oreo Dessert
Ingredients Needed for these Salted Caramel Brownies:
- Butter
- Semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract
- Flour
- Salt
- Caramel candies, unwrapped
- Heavy whipping cream
- Sea salt, divided
Directions:
- Line a 9 x 9 baking pan with foil and spray evenly with cooking spray.
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Melt the butter in the microwave.
- Add in the chocolate chips and stir until smooth. If after 30 seconds, chocolate doesn’t melt entirely, microwave for about 20 seconds.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract.
- Slowly add in the butter/chocolate mixture and stir until smooth.
- Fold in the flour and ¼ teaspoon salt.
- Pour half the brownie batter into greased pan and bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes.
- In a small bowl, combine the caramels, heavy whipping cream, and ¼ teaspoon salt.
- Microwave in small increments until all is melted and combined.
- Pour caramel onto cooled brownies evenly.
- Pour remaining brownie batter over caramel evenly.
- Place pan back into oven and bake for about 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle remaining ¼ teaspoon salt on top prior to serving.
- Cool before removing brownies from pan!! Enjoy!
Next time you have a sweet tooth craving, these Salted Caramel Brownies are just the thing to try! Flavor packed brownies with a mouthwatering caramel layer that everyone will enjoy!
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Salted Caramel Brownies
Equipment
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 6 oz bittersweet chocolate
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup flour
- 2 tablespoon flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 7 oz caramel candies *unwrapped
- 2 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoon heavy whipping cream
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Line a 9 x 9 baking pan with foil and spray evenly with cooking spray.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt the butter in the microwave.
- Add in the chocolate chips and stir until smooth. If after 30 seconds, chocolate doesn’t melt entirely, microwave for about 20 seconds.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract.
- Slowly add in the butter/chocolate mixture and stir until smooth.
- Fold in the flour and ¼ teaspoon salt.
- Pour half the brownie batter into greased pan and bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for 20 minutes.
- In a small bowl, combine the caramels, heavy whipping cream, and ¼ teaspoon salt.
- Microwave in small increments until all is melted and combined.
- Pour caramel onto cooled brownies evenly.
- Pour remaining brownie batter over caramel evenly.
- Place pan back into oven and bake for about 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle remaining ¼ teaspoon salt on top prior to serving.
- Cool before removing brownies from pan!! Enjoy!
Nutrition
Recipe updated 2/8/22
Dean Sprinkle says
I’m curious as to why we’re baking the bottom layer for a 40 minute bake time as opposed to half that for the top layer when they’re about the same volume of batter. Have you experienced any burning or overcooking of the bottom layer? It seems the brownie batter takes 20 minutes to reach doneness, but exposure to the conductive bottom of the pan for double that time concerns me. Thank you!!
Kristin says
You bake the bottom for 20 minutes, then add the caramel layer and top layer, baking for another 20. Because the bottom is covered with the caramel and brownie, you want to make sure it gets baked through first, but being covered for the second bake time, it doesn’t burn it. It stays moist and delicious! Enjoy!
Jessica says
You have flour listed twice and heavy cream listed twice. Is it 1/2c plus 2TB flour and 4TB heavy cream?
Kristin says
Yes! Sorry for the confusion, it is 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp flour as well as the heavy cream! Enjoy!!