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Salted Vanilla Caramels

By Kelsey

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on Jul 13, 2012, Updated May 14, 2024

How has your week been?  Mine has been pretty good.  Nothing too crazy happened, but my boyfriend and I have really begun to search hard for a condo.  It is not as easy as they make it look on house hunters!!  Luckily we have my dad as our relator/ agent/ mortgage broker, so he has been a huge help.  While looking for an actual place to live, I have been creating quite an amazing condo on pinterest.  We will be hard at work DIYing most of the place, so I will keep you updated.  I might have to make another pallet headboard!  This week I also tryed something that I did not think would turn out well.  Microwave caramels.  I saw the recipe and thought it would be too good to be true.  My candy thermometer is out of batteries and I have been too lazy to get new ones, so candy making has been out of the rotation.  I found this recipe online and thought  if I added vanilla and salt on top, it could be pretty amazing.

I followed the instructions and watched it boil in the microwave…

When I took it out, I added the vanilla, stirred, then poured it in a greased 9×13 pyrex.

I let it sit for about 20 minutes then went to check on it and it was clumpy and did not look good.  SO, I stirred it up for about 3 minutes longer, then let it sit.  About 20 minutes later it looked great!  I sprinkled it will sea salt and threw it in the fridge.  When I took it out later, I cut the caramel into squares.

Then I wrapped them in parchment paper!

BUT WAIT!!! A stroke of genius hit me, a little late, but it was amazing.  As the pieces were sitting out at room temperature, they started to flatten, so I did this:

Thats right.  That is peanut butter.  Inside a salted vanilla caramel.  I threw them in the fridge and had one later…. okay it was this morning. SO GOOD!!!!!!

Peanut Butter Filled Salted Vanilla Caramels.  Woah.