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Salted Chocolate and Caramel Shortbread Bars

December 16, 2009 9 Comments

These Salted Chocolate and Caramel Shortbread Bars are, in a word, decadent. The richness of chocolate and caramel is highlighted very subtlety with a touch of sea salt.

Salted Chocolate and Caramel Shortbread Bars

I saw a photo of a dessert like this as part of a Bakeoff held by Bon Appetit; the photo was an inspiration but the recipe not so much!

First, it was in metric and called for all store elements to complete, so thought I would take it on to make my own version..the year of salted everything! I admit, I love the combination of caramel, chocolate and salt. I first tried it as a hot chocolate drink served by Starbucks a couple of years ago and became instantly hooked; I expected that same glee here and they do deliver!

I’ve got a group I meet with monthly that is going to benefit from this effort…hoping tomorrow it will be Ladies who Skip Lunch for this Dessert!

This is a very old post and it’s evident from looking at it today (10/12/17) that I need to redo it and get some better photos. Aw shucks, you mean I have to eat more of these? OKAY!!

The results were great; we finished off the entire pan of these Salted Chocolate and Caramel Shortbread Bars!

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Ingredients

  • ½ lb softened butter
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2 Tablespoons ground almonds
  • 3.5 oz caramel sauce, purchased or homemade
  • 2-3 oz milk or dark chocolate
  • Sea Salt – I used Maldon Salt flakes because the flakes are so pretty. I got them locally from Savory Spice Shop in Littleton, CO; they are now online as well.

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325
  2. Grease the inside of a 9X9" baking pan with butter and then ‘flour’ with the ground almonds.
  3. Cream butter and sugar in mixer.
  4. Slowly add the flour, ½ cup at a time. Results will be somewhat crumbly; that's OK, you'll pat them into a layer in the pan.
  5. Put dough into pan and firmly press with fingers to spread it to sides of pan, making an even layer.
  6. Prick top all over with fork tines.
  7. Bake for 30 – 35 minutes in the center of the oven or until firm to touch and very light brown in color
  8. Remove from the oven and cool. Top with caramel sauce. Refrigerate until firm.
  9. Melt chocolate gently in double boiler and pour evenly over the caramel, cool slightly and then sprinkle lightly with sea salt.
  10. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
  11. Cut into 16 single serving sizes or if serving with other desserts, could be cut into 32 smaller servings.
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Comments

  1. Lori @ RecipeGirl says

    December 18, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Drool!  These look amazing.  I love that you can dress up shortbread any way you want to. 
    Reply
  2. Creative Culinary says

    December 17, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Then my work here is done :)

    Reply
  3. daddybookins says

    December 16, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    You have no idea how fabulous this looks to me right now!  I am in a nine alarm chocolate mode! Peas Out! ~daddy b.
    Reply

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    October 3, 2011 at 7:58 am
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  2. Salted Chocolate Caramel Shortbread « Musings of the FoodMadam says:
    June 4, 2010 at 3:19 pm
    [...] recipe was the inspiration from a Twitter friend, Barbara (aka VinoLuci) and her recipe and gorgeous photo left me with the absolute need to make this myself. I used store bought caramel [...]
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    December 21, 2009 at 9:23 am
    [...] This recipe was the inspiration from a Twitter friend, Barbara (aka VinoLuci) and her recipe and gorgeous photo left me with the absolute need to make this myself. I used store bought caramel [...]
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  4. Salted Caramel Chocolate Shortbread, serious #foodporn worth making… « Dana Moos's Photo Blog says:
    December 21, 2009 at 9:23 am
    [...] This recipe was the inspiration from a Twitter friend, Barbara (aka VinoLuci) and her recipe and gorgeous photo left me with the absolute need to make this myself. I used store bought caramel [...]
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  5. Salted Caramel Chocolate Shortbread, serious #foodporn worth making… « Dana Moos's Photo Blog says:
    December 21, 2009 at 9:23 am
    [...] This recipe was the inspiration from a Twitter friend, Barbara (aka VinoLuci) and her recipe and gorgeous photo left me with the absolute need to make this myself. I used store bought caramel [...]
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    December 16, 2009 at 8:42 pm
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