Peanut Salted Caramel Chocolate Bites - super easy to make and totally irresistible. The perfect edible gift or Christmas treat.
Quick look at Peanut Salted Caramel Chocolate Bites
- ⏲️ 5 mins hands-on time (plus chilling).
- 🛒 Ingredients: Just 5!
- 🍽️ Makes: Depends how big you like your chocolate squares.
- 🧑🍳 Difficulty: Easy (but involves the stove).
- 🗃️ Make ahead: Keep for a month in the fridge.
Do you ever have moments where an idea just hits you?
Maybe it's just me but it's like I get bolts of inspiration and on Saturday I was hit with a bolt of chocolate.
In fairness I'd been dreaming up these chocolate bars all week but I was missing one element.
I wanted a little something to give my girlfriends at our annual Christmas dinner and I'd gotten so far as chocolate & peanuts but I knew it was missing something... salted caramel!
I had a little box of salted caramel chocolates stashed in the pantry for chocolate emergencies (as you do).
Peanut salted caramel chocolate bites were born.
I know how stressful Christmas can be and how tough it can be to think of gifts for everyone.
Plus finding the time to buy stuff and wrap it or make it if you're that way inclined.
These are SUPER easy to make and I think they should cover all bases for you.
You might also like Mars Bar slice.
Except maybe your friends who are allergic to peanuts or your total-health-nut friends but surely even they splurge for Christmas?
You could swap out the peanuts with roasted macadamias so you don't give the peanut-allergic friend a trip to emergency for Christmas.
For your healthy friends, you could give them some nut-free Christmas bliss balls.
You might want to try chocolate rum and raisin cake.
If you love cinnamon, you might want to try cinnamon pull apart loaf.
Recipe
Peanut salted caramel chocolate bites
Ingredients
- 400 g dark chocolate broken into pieces
- 200 g milk chocolate broken into pieces
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 x 200g packet of salted caramel chocolates or plain salted caramels chopped roughly
- 1½ cups roasted peanuts
Instructions
- Place the chocolate in a pot and heat, stirring, over low heat until just melted (don't stop stirring!).
- Take it off the heat and stir in the butter.
- Stir in the salted caramels and peanuts.
- Spread into a foil tin 20x30cm and refrigerate until solid (about 2h).
- Remove from fridge and take the whole slab out of the tin and onto a chopping board.
- Use a sharp butchers knife to cut into squares.
- Refrigerate until serving.
Claire Cameron says
The only problem with this recipe is that you'll find it hard to stop at one bite!