Peanut Butter Caramel Swirl Brownies are the best of it all! Fudgy brownies swirled with a peanut butter caramel and baked to perfection. Add to that a little bit of chocolate with sea salt and you have a piece of heaven that you likely will not want to share!
- for the caramel sauce:
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup water
- ½ cup smooth peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup
- Pinch sea salt
- ⅛ teaspoon vanilla extract
- for the Brownie Batter
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 3 cups white sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 4 eggs
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-3.5 oz Lindt Dark Chocolate Bar with Sea Salt, broken into pieces
- Bring the cream to a simmer over low heat in a small saucepan. Combine the sugar and water in a small saucepan over high heat and cook without stirring until amber brown. Slowly whisk in the warm cream until smooth and let cook for 1 minute. When you stir the cream into the caramelized sugar, it will bubble furiously. Don't let this scare you, just keep stirring. Remove from the heat and whisk in the peanut butter, corn syrup, sea salt and ⅛ teaspoon of vanilla extract until smooth. Transfer to a bowl and let cool until thickened at room temperature, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350. Prepare 9 X 13 pan by lining with tinfoil. Spray tinfoil with cooking spray. set aside.
- In medium sized bowl, stir sugar into melted butter. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing until well blended. Add vanilla extract. Set aside.
- In separate bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder, salt, and chocolate. Fold into wet ingredients. Pour into 9X13 pan. Drop 8 tablespoons peanut butter caramel on top of brownie batter. Drag knife through batter and caramel to swirl. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Cool completely before cutting.
Miss @ Miss in the Kitchen
These sound fabulous! Did you see Lindt is having a recipe contest? You might have a winner here!
Fahad Khan
So,I just commented on and went through your 'Quinoa Salad with Mango, Black Beans, and Cilantro Lime Dressing' recipe,and saw the link to this recipe appear on the right - there was no reason why would not I visit it!And there is no reason why these will not taste heavenly!Absolutely wonderful recipe,I love brownies,and with caramel,even better!
P.S. Sharing this with my twitter followers!
Anne
Okay that caramel peanut butter sauce sounds perfect (how to you resist eating it straight out of the pan?) I will have to grab a bar of that chocolate, the salt sounds amazing and now I want brownies!
Howe to Cook
These look heavenly! Peanut butter and caramel are 2 of my favorite things! Yum!
5 Star Foodie
Such gooey delicious looking brownies! The combination of pb, caramel, chocolate, and sea salt is definitely a winning one!
Heather Davis
Wow! That's all....
Flourchild
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miss
I've got to find some of that chocolate with sea salt. Chocolate & PB are my favorite and with carmel, oh my!
marla
These PB bars look awesome, I too love my chocolate with a dash of sea salt.
Tupper Cooks!
That's the way, uh huh, uh huh , I like them............
Cookin' Canuck
What a great use for that Lindt. Nice combination of salt and sweet!
Jason's BBQ Adventures
Fabulous looking brownies. Love a good peanut butter caramel swirl!
Tracey
That peanut butter caramel sauce sounds heavenly!
Lynda
Oh my, I want to lick the screen, but I'll bookmark these instead-fantastic Shelby!
teresa
oh my goodness, they look as good as they sound! i love that sea salt is making an appearance in these yummy treats!
Amanda
ooo la la! YUmmo!!
Fallon
I remember seeing this Throwdown on TV. Everything compliments each other, plus you had me at chocolate and peanut butter. 😉
I've seen the chocolate with sea salt at the store. Going to have to pick it up next time to try it out!
Mads
The sea salt ones are Delicious! I also sorta kinda love the chili pepper ones. Spicy sweet. mmm
Jamie
These look so good Shelby. What a fantastic combination. So making these soon!
Flourchild
These have to be the best things I've seen all day!! WOw do they look yummy! I have to make these asap!!