If you like caramel Twix candy bars, you’re going to love these salted chocolate caramel bars. They’re super easy to make with just a few simple ingredients -- melted caramel and milk chocolate over a buttery Nilla Wafer crust.
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You’re going to love these
So. Easy. For some reason, it seems like making candy bars or layered things require lots of futzy steps. These are literally melt and pour x 3.
Decadent. Chocolate + caramel + a rich buttery vanilla crust is the perfect bite at the end of a meal. You can cut these small. I don’t, but you can. 🙂
Like a Twix! If a craving for a Twix strikes, know that you are always just a few ingredients away from making a whole pan of them.
How to Make Salted Chocolate Caramel Bars
Preheat oven to 350. Combine one stick of melted butter with two cups of crushed Nilla Wafers. Pat in pan and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
Melt one cup caramel bits (have you seen these?!) with 1 tablespoon milk in the microwave in 30-second intervals for about a minute and a half, or until smooth and creamy. Pour caramel mixture over wafer crust. Cool in refrigerator for 20 minutes.
Melt one cup milk chocolate with 1 teaspoon coconut oil in microwave until smooth and creamy. Pour over caramel mixture.
Top with sea salt. Cool in refrigerator until completely cooled. Cut into bars. Store in refrigerator.
Salted Chocolate Caramel Bars
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, melted
- 2 cups Nilla Wafers, crushed
- 1 cup caramel bits
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Combine one stick of melted butter with two cups of crushed Nilla Wafers. Pat in pan and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown. Cool in refrigerator for 10 minutes.
- Melt one cup caramel bits (have you seen these?!) with 1 tablespoon milk in the microwave in 30-second intervals for about a minute and a half, or until smooth and creamy. Pour caramel mixture over wafer crust. Cool in refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Melt one cup milk chocolate with 1 teaspoon coconut oil in microwave until smooth and creamy. Pour over caramel mixture. Top with sea salt. Cool in refrigerator until completely cooled.
Nutrition
Ingredient Notes
Caramel bits. Have you seen these? You no longer need to unwrap caramels one by one by one. These little caramel bits are so great for baking (and snacking!).
Chocolate. Choose your favorite chocolate, obviously. I would typically go with dark chocolate because that’s always my default, but in this case, I was craving the traditional milk chocolate and caramel combo of the Twix bars I love so much.
Cookie crust. I used Nilla Wafers, but any cookie would be so good! Oreos, chocolate chip cookies, graham crackers, peanut butter sandwiches, or pretzels would be killer in this recipe.
Sea salt. With every layer being so sweet, it’s nice to get a little salty relief.
Recipe Essentials
Pyrex Grab Baking Dish
See my groovy baking dish with handles? It's the square one from this set. And I love it <3.
Caramel Bits
Where have caramel bits been all our lives? No more unwrapping and unwrapping and unwrapping. These are all ready to measure and pour. And pop in your mouth. And hope you don't eat them all so you actually have some left for the recipe.
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