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!
Love sweet and salty? Then you’re going to go crazy for this Salted Caramel Brownie Recipe! The perfect balance. Or try these delicious bites of Salted Caramel Fudge for a tasty dessert.
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.
More Easy Candy Recipes
Holiday Candy Recipes
See all Candy recipes
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.
I am in love with this recipe. Salted caramel is my favorite!
I LOVE chocolate bark. The flavor combo in this recipe is amazing. The salty pretzels take it to the next level!!
This looks like the most amazingly delicious things ever! 😉
Hi, I just made these and although they taste good, the chocolate later doesn’t seem to be adhering to the other layers and therefore breaks off on its own. Might I have missed something? Thanks
My chocolate broke off the first time too! Now, I wait to drizzle them with chocolate until I separate them into pieces. Hope this helps!
This was very easy to make, and tasted great too! But, on the next day the pretzels had lost their crunch. Any idea why they went soft?
What is vanilla candy coating ?
It’s also known as Candiquik, Ghirhardelli melting wafers and vanilla almond bark. You can find it near the chocolate chips at most grocery stores.
Hi there! Unlike a lot of other commentators I actually did make this but it was a disappointment in that the caramel was a total fail. I made it twice and ended up using another recipe for the caramel. I followed this recipe carefully ( I have formal training in food science) but I cannot figure what happened. The first batch was grainy and over sweet the second batch separated into blobs. Is there too much butter? What is the purpose of the powdered sugar it made the first batch super sweet. I really wanted this to work as I planned to give it
as gifts. In the end the product worked with the other caramel and it looked and tasted great. Has any body else had problems with the caramel?
What is vanilla candy coating? I live in Mexico, been here 7 years. I think I can get everything else, but I’m not familiar with that. Is it what we used to call “white chocolate” only it wasn’t? Thanks!
This recipe would cover an entire cookie sheet??
Thank you for sharing this recipe Aimee. I totally am with you on making my own goodies and such. Even some complicated goodies are made in my kitchen, simply because I know it will taste better and be cheaper! I run a home bakery and am always trying new things…so thanks again for sharing this recipe!
They look great. Where would i find the vanilla candy coating???
I find mine in any grocery store! It’s often times referred to as candiquik or vanilla bark.
I go to Bulk Barn, they even carry gluten free candy coating.
I make a toffee/graham based bark with different toppings. I’ve made a dark chocolate with sea salt and toffee bits, but I really like the idea of adding this topping to my graham cracker/toffee base! Might skip the pretzels though (I’m just not a pretzel fan).
Hi, Aimee-
Not sure if you remember me, a friend of Kari’s. I check out your blog all the time, and I’m making these for my Sweet Swap at work tomorrow. Thanks for the great idea! I can’t wait to try them!
-Justine
this looks amazing. i just finished making Peppermint Bark so I’m very intrigued by this recipe. Glad I stopped over! check out my bark too: http://www.myjudythefoodie.com/2011/12/holiday-peppermint-bark/
Salted Caramel Bark!? I’ll have 52 batches please.
delightful and very pretty treat.
Gotta say, if I could hire a personal confectioner, you’d be my first choice. Your desserts are always one of the highlights of my “A Little Birdie Visits” and this salted caramel bark is no exception. I’m featuring your post on my Facebook page today.
Jenn
These look wonderful – I can eat these bars all day!
Wow… This looks amazing!!!!!
Emily
domesticdeadline.blogspot.com
Now THESE have my attention!! *drool* ~Megan