Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk Bars

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 cups butter

  1 pound, room temperature
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 4 cups flour
• 14 ounce bag caramel candy cubes

  unwrapped (approximately 50 candies)
• 1/3 cup half & half
• 1/2 tbsp sea salt
• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chunks

  I used Nestle brand

Instructions

• 1 Place butter and sugars in mixer, beat until creamed. Scrape down sides of
  mixing bowl and beat another minute. Add vanilla and beat another 30 seconds.
  Gradually add flour a half cup at a time
• 2 Take one-third of the dough and press into the bottom of pan. Place in oven and
  bake for 15 minutes. Place remainder of the dough in the refrigerator. (this
  will help it get crumbly)
• 3 Unwrap caramels and place them in a medium-sized glass bowl pour half and half
  over caramels, place in microwave and gradually melt on high at 30 second
  intervals stirring in between each until caramels are melted and smooth. This
  step takes about 3 minutes.
• 4 Remove bottom crust from oven pour caramel over crust and spread evenly with
  spatula, sprinkle sea salt evenly over caramel. Remove dough from refrigerator,
  crumble half of the dough over caramel. Sprinkle chocolate chunks evenly over
  bars, as well as the remainder of the dough.
• 5 Return bars to oven and bake an additional 30-40 minutes or until bars just
  start to get a little brown on top.
• 6 Place pan on a cooling rack allow to cool for 1 hour before cutting into
  squares.

Nutrition Info