Vanilla Bean-Sea Salt Caramels

Name: Vanilla Bean-Sea Salt Caramels
Yield: 4 dozen 1-by-1½-inch candies
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons coarse, flaky sea salt, plus more for sprinkling**; 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste; 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces; ½ vanilla bean, split lengthwise*; ½ cup heavy cream; ½ cup light corn syrup; ¼ cup light brown sugar, packed; 1 cup granulated sugar

Preparation info

4 dozen
1-by-1½-inch candies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pure Vanilla

By Shauna Sever

Published 2012

About

I am caramel obsessed. Chewy, saucy, crunchy, whatever—I love it all, and I make it often. Any good caramel recipe includes a splash of vanilla to heighten the flavor of the caramelized sugar. But in this recipe, the vanilla flavor is the star. The secret is to steep the bean in the cream, which permeates the entire pot of caramel with pure vanilla flavor.