Salted Butter Caramels (Confectionery)

Member Name: loobyleeby

Product:	Confectionery
Date:	03/03/09 (81 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A truly unique flavour

Disadvantages: Very fattening

I love salted butter caramel - the taste is out of this world, the flavours all work so well together. It sounds like a really odd combination, but I promise you it is great. This recipe is not mine - it came from somewhere on the internet last year, but I make it all the time so I thought I would share it with you.

Ingredients:
1 cup double cream
125g salted butter, cut into cubes
1-2 teaspoon fleur de sel - Fleur de sel is a special kind of French sea salt you can get it in specialist delis or off the internet
1 ½ cups sugar
¼ cup light corn syrup
¼ cup water
1 ½ tsp vanilla extract - not essence it has to be extract

Method:
1. Line an 8 inch square pan with lightly oiled greaseproof paper

2. Put the cream, butter and fleur de sel in a small saucepan, bring to a boil, then remove from the heat and set to one side.

3. Put the sugar, corn syrup and water in to a large heavy bottomed pan, bring to a boil gently stirring constantly until the sugar is dissolved and turned a light golden caramel colour.

4. Carefully stir in the cream mixture - be careful as it will bubble up - and simmer, stirring frequently until the caramel registers 246°F on a sugar thermometer, this should take 10 to 15 minutes.

5. Pour the mixture in to the square pan and cool for a couple of hours, sprinkle on some more fleur de sel. Cut into 1 inch pieces the wrap each piece in a 4 inch square of waxed paper, twisting both ends to close.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do - it is very fattening though - so try not to eat it all at once!

Summary: A delicious sweet treat!