Recipe: Appetizing Salted Carmel Butter Bars

Salted Carmel Butter Bars. These Salted Caramel Butter bars are one of my most requested recipes ever! I can't begin to explain to you how much I love these Salted Caramel Butter Bars…I make them ALL THE TIME. They are one of my most requested desserts to bring to parties and there.

And they are packed with butter. But I promise they are worth every bite. These are the bars that someone brings to a get together and you HAVE to get the. You can cook Salted Carmel Butter Bars using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Salted Carmel Butter Bars

1. Prepare of Batter.
2. Prepare 1 lb of Salted butter room temp.
3. You need 1 cup of Sugar.
4. It's 1 1/2 cup of Powdered Sugar.
5. You need 2 tbsp of Vanilla.
6. It's 4 cup of AP flour.
7. Prepare of Filling.
8. You need 1 bag of Carmel candies (about 50 pieces) unwrapped.
9. It's 1/3 cup of milk or cream.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of Vanilla.
11. You need 1 of Coarse sea salt or Kosher salt.

Yes these Salted Caramel Butter Bars are rich. Yes, they melt in your mouth. No, you cannot just eat one. They are just that amazingly good.

Salted Carmel Butter Bars step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325°.
2. In a large bowl, combine the butter and sugars. Using mixer on medium speed, beat together until creamy. Add the vanilla and beat until combined. Sift the flour into the butter mixture and beat on low speed until a smooth soft dough forms..
3. Spray a 9x13 inch baking pan lightly with non-stick cooking spray. Press one-third of the dough evenly into the pan to form a bottom crust. Wrap remaining dough in plastic wrap and chill in refrigerator..
4. Bake crust until firm and the edges are a pale golden brown approx 20 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack and let cool about 15 minutes..
5. While the bottom crust is baking and the remaining dough is chilling, make the caramel filling. Place the unwrapped caramels in a microwave-safe bowl. Add the cream. Microwave on high for 1 minute. Remove from the microwave and stir until smooth. If caramels are not completely melted, microwave on high for 30-second intervals, stirring after each interval, until smooth..
6. Once the caramel is melted add in your 1/2 tsp vanilla and stir until combined..
7. Pour the caramel filling over the crust. If you are going to salt the caramel sprinkle it on caramel layer now..
8. Remove the remaining chilled dough from the refrigerator and crumble it evenly over the caramel..
9. Return the pan to the oven and bake until the filling is bubbly and the crumbled shortbread topping is firm and lightly golden, about 25 - 30 minutes..
10. Let cool before cutting into squares..

Salted Caramel Butter Bars have a rich buttery shortbread crust topped with creamy caramel and sprinkled with salt! This recipe has three of my favorite things, salt, caramel and butter. And boy do these bars have butter. These salted caramel butter bars are too good to turn down. These salted caramel butter bars are impossible to turn down.