"caramel" news and stories

Bring some carnival midway magic home with do-it-yourself caramel corn.

Try saying this three times fast: Chocolate Mousse, Salted Caramel Ganache, Peanut and Banana Caramel Tart. As difficult as it may be to say, it looks like a breeze to eat (three times fast, of course).

Baked by Aran at Cannelle et Vanille, these diminutive beauties have almost as many complex layers as the Earth's surface. The chocolate shells are filled with a layer of banana caramel with peanuts, another layer of triple chocolate salted caramel ganache, and then crowned with a cloud of chocolate mousse.

The whole is garnished with cocoa powder, chocolate shavings and chopped peanuts. Eat. Await indescribable bliss.

[Via Canelle et Vanille]

Just the other day, I was perusing my RSS feed and wondered when Pim would once again make me salivate with some amazing, but simple, recipe. Wonder and ye shall receive, I guess, because she's just done it again in the most delightful way -- Chocolate-Caramel Shortbread Sandwiches.

I might not be a big chocolate fiend, but make it a dark chocolate, and team it with shortbread and salty caramel? I can't think of much that would be tastier. Basically, these cookies are small slabs of shortbread that have a chocolate ganache ring inside that holds in gooey caramel. So, not only are they a mixture of delicious flavors, but they're cookies with a creamy explosion inside.

I just wish these went up the other night when I was baking for the company I had tonight.