Nana’s Christmas Salty Caramels
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Sweet annd salty, you can’t eat just one!
- Author: Nana Ethel Smith
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 20 mins
- Category: Candy
- Cuisine: American
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- kosher salt
- Line an 8 in.square pan with foil and butter the foil.
- Put sugar, syrup and 1/2 cup cream in pan and cook until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water. Stir constantly.
- Add 1/2 cup of cream and boil until mixture will again form a softball in cold water.
- Add remainder of cream and cook until mixture makes a firm ball when tried in cold water.
- Add vanilla. Pour into foil lined buttered pan.
- Sprinkle the top with kosher salt.
- Cool, cut in squares and wrap in parchment paper.
- For chocolate caramels, use the preceding recipe and add three squares of chocolate with the last half cup of cream.
