Looking for an easy candy recipe with salted caramel and chocolate? This Salted Caramel Bark is a sweet and salty treat made with white chocolate, salted caramel, pretzels, and finished with a milk chocolate drizzle! Ready in minutes!
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Why this Recipe Works
Crispy pretzels and a homemade caramel sauce turn a simple batch of chocolate park into a decadent caramel candy!
This turned out to be a very easy candy recipe that creates sweet pieces of white chocolate bark, drizzled in milk chocolate and caramel sauce, then flecked with sea salt.
When it comes to candy, I’m a huge fan of the combo of sweet and salty! The pretzels added to this bark brought a nice element of crunch to the chocolate bark.
I can’t wait for you all to try this homemade candy recipe. If you love sweet and salty desserts, you’ve got to bake a batch of our potato chip cookies!
Ingredient Notes
Just a handful of ingredients!
- Butter
- Brown sugar
- Milk
- Vanilla Extract– try using our homemade vanilla extract recipe!
- Powdered sugar
- Kosher salt-learn why I use kosher salt in my cooking and baking!
- Ghirardelli White Chocolate candy melts
- Milk chocolate morsels – Or chocolate candy coating
- Pretzel sticks – Broken into pieces
Easy Instructions
Don’t be intimidated by the thought of making your own caramel sauce. This caramel doesn’t require a candy thermometer or any special ingredients.
STEP 1. Make the caramel sauce
In large saucepan melt butter. Add brown sugar and milk. Cook on medium for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla and powdered sugar. Set aside.
STEP 2. Melt chocolate
Melt white chocolate according to package directions. Pour on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Spread evenly to distribute over the whole lined pan.
PRO TIP: I don’t recommend white chocolate chips for this recipe, as they can be finicky when melting.
STEP 3. Assemble the bark
Drizzle caramel sauce over melted white chocolate. Sprinkle with kosher salt. Top with broken pretzels, pressing them into the bark lightly. Melt milk chocolate according to package. Drizzle over bark.
Allow the bark to set about one hour at room temperature.
Break into pieces and enjoy!
Recipe FAQs
Salted caramel bark keeps well in an airtight container at room temperature. You can also keep the bark in the fridge to enjoy cold. It’s delicious this way, too.
I know there will be a few dark chocolate only people out there wondering how this tastes with dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate drizzled over it. While I personally love the extra sweetness of the milk chocolate here, feel free to try it with another variety and let me know how you like it! The beauty of this easy candy recipe is in the balance of flavors, from sweet to salty and textures from velvety vanilla to crunchy pretzels.
I break mini pretzel sticks into 2 or 3 pieces. You don’t want the pretzels to be like crumbs. The crunchy pieces add the perfect touch to this chocolate bark! Other pretzel shapes will work, too, like twists or squares. Just break them into pieces about 1/2 inch to an inch long before pressing them lightly into the melted chocolate.
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Salted Caramel Bark
Ingredients
- ¼ cup unsalted butter
- ¼ cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 ½ Tablespoons milk
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- 16 oz Ghirardelli white chocolate wafers
- ¾ cup milk chocolate morsels
- 1 ½ cup pretzels broken
Instructions
- In a large saucepan melt butter. Add brown sugar and milk. Cook on medium heat for 2 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla and powdered sugar. Set aside.
- Melt white chocolate wafers according to package directions. Pour on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Spread evenly.
- Drizzle caramel sauce over melted white choolate. Sprinkle with kosher salt. Top with broken pretzels (press them into bark, lightly). Melt milk chocolate according to package. Drizzle over bark. Allow to set about one hour.
- Cut into pieces and enjoy!
Notes
- White chocolate– I love how smooth and delicious the Ghirardelli wafers taste when melted. No need to spread to the edges of the pan, just smooth thin and even on the parchment paper.
- Storage: Salted caramel bark keeps well in an airtight container at room temperature. You can also keep the bark in the fridge to enjoy cold–it’s delicious this way, too.
Nutrition
Salted Caramel Bark with pretzels and milk chocolate is a homemade candy that’s as easy as it is scrumptious! I hope your family likes it as much as mine does.
Hi,
I am hosting a Holiday Cookie Recipe swap and would love to get the word out to other bloggers to post and share their recipe. I do get good traffic on my site so it would mean traffic for others.
http://happyhomemakercindy.com/2011/11/the-hhc-holiday-cookie-recipe-swap/
I would love it if you could share the idea with you blogger friends.
These have been pinned!! Can’t wait to make them soon! Thanks for sharing on 2 Maids a Baking!!!
These are perfect for the holidays and would make a wonderful gift as well…plus they are so pretty 🙂
I’m soooo making this. My husband will love me even more for doing so!
What a great idea for gift giving, will be making some soon!
Oh and found you over at Two Maids a Milking.
This looks amazing! What a great gift idea or something decadent to enjoy over the holidays!
I love bark and I haven’t had it in so long! I’m going to break down and make some. Your bark with the pretzels is perfect! I love the salty sweet combo, I can’t get enough of it!
We just made a sweet & salty bark — so easy and I love the flavor combo.
This looks amazing! Great for a holiday party or an edible gift!
Pretzels on top = genius! These look divine!
Wow does this look yummy. A great food gift. Come visit us. We have pumpkin fried rice today. Be sure to stop by on Friday and register to win a party dress from The Shabby Apple.
oh my word. you made this with me in mind, right?
Thanks all, like Jocelyn said, time to put on the stretchy pants!
ohmygosh girl! these are GORGEOUS!!!
Looks and sounds great Aimee!
This looks SO good!!! I’m going to make some of this stuff to put in my Christmas sweet tins. Thanks! And, of course, keep some for our house.
This. looks. FAB!
I will def have to try this and add to my Holiday Treat Swap 🙂
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–shelley
This looks yummy! I love trying out different barks to much on or give as gifts!! Let the holiday baking begin! 😀
~Leslie
Yea for fun relaxing holidays with family!!! I love the way you think…that you can’t buy stuff that you can make!!! Salted caramel bark? That would be a huge yes please!!!!!! It looks amazing!!! Where are my stretchy pants for the rest of the month?:-)
Oh.my.word! This looks amazing and I’m sure it tastes way better than Costco.