30 Best Caramel Recipes

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Experience a world of mouthwatering sweetness with our special collection of 30 Best Caramel Recipes

With these recipes, we celebrate the amazing flavors and fun you can have with caramel. Each recipe is a little adventure in caramel goodness. From classic favorites like luscious creme caramel to innovative creations like Chocolate Caramel Mousse Cake, this collection is a tribute to the versatility of this beloved confection.

This collection has something for everyone. Whether you love the classic taste of caramel or you’re up for a surprise, these recipes are created to make your meals memorable. Each recipe has easy-to-follow instructions and video recipes, so no need to worry about trying caramel recipes anymore.

Caramel and Vanilla Recipes

From creamy flans to luscious cakes, savor the timeless combination of sweet caramel and smooth vanilla with our caramel and vanilla dessert collection.

Mini Size Creme Caramel - Creme Caramel in individual portions
Mini Size Crème Caramel
This Mini Size Creme Caramel is a creamy dessert that's both easy to make and wonderfully indulgent. Originating from France, it's a timeless treat. It delights with its smooth, creamy texture and delicate caramel sauce. You can bake it in a big dish for sharing or in smaller portions for a special touch.
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Crème Brûlée
Crème Brûlée
You can hardly beat a classic Creme Brulee during the summer. It’s creamy, elegant, refreshing and the crispy caramelized crust on top is simply divine.
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Flan Cake
Flan Cake
Flan Cake is an irresistible dessert that combines the smooth silky flan with a moist vanilla sponge cake and caramel topping.
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Canelés (Cannelés) de Bordeaux
Canelés (Cannelés) de Bordeaux
Canelés (Cannelés) de Bordeaux are delicious French pastries that have a crispy caramelized crust and a soft custard interior. Not everybody is familiar with them and they are not as popular as macarons but still very impressive and once you’ve discovered them you keep wanting for more. Even though they are made using simple basic ingredients caneles are simply out of this world.
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Cheesecake Flan
Cheesecake Flan
Cheesecake Flan is a very delicate and elegant dessert that can be prepared for any occasion. It is rich with a smooth, silky texture and the delicious caramel syrup is making it absolutely irresistible.
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Croque en Bouche or Croquembouche
Croque en Bouche or Croquembouche
I have always loved Croque en Bouche, also known as Croquembouche, the famous French dessert that always makes quite an impression wherever it is served and seems so intimidating to prepare. It’s an impressive dessert that is perfect for Christmas or New Year’s Eve though it is also served at weddings or other special occasions during the year.
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creme caramel slice
Crème Caramel
Easy recipe for Creme Caramel, one of the most elegant and delicious desserts. What's not to love about its soft caramel top, yummy vanilla taste, and creamy texture? This dessert is elegant and delicious. 
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Caramel and Fruit Recipes

From the comforting embrace of caramel apple desserts to the seasonal delight of caramel pumpkin cake roll, and the irresistible banoffee pie, experience the delightful blend of caramel and fruits in every bite.

Apple Pecan Caramel Mousse Cake
Apple Pecan Caramel Mousse Cake
This Apple Pecan Caramel Mousse Cake is a delightful treat bursting with autumn flavors. At the base, there's a soft and fragrant apple cinnamon cake. The cake is topped with, a rich salted caramel layer, generously mixed with tender apple bits and toasted pecans.
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Banana Caramel Chocolate Mousse Cake photo square
Banana Caramel Chocolate Mousse Cake
This amazing Banana Caramel Chocolate Mousse Cake is made of a chocolate banana sponge cake at the bottom topped with a delightful salted caramel, banana and toasted pecans layer and followed by a smooth caramelized chocolate mousse. The cake is decorated with an amazing edible flower.
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Caramel Apple Crisp Cheesecake
Caramel Apple Crisp Cheesecake
This Caramel Apple Crisp Cheesecake is one of the most decadent fall desserts you can ever prepare. A cookie crust followed by a creamy caramel cheesecake layer, topped with spiced apples and crispy crumble on top, all drizzled with more salted caramel sauce. It is absolutely heavenly, an amazing symphony of flavors and textures.
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Apple Walnut Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Drips
Apple Walnut Caramel Cake
This Apple Walnut Caramel Cake is a mouthwatering rich dessert, full of flavor and texture, perfect for any time of the year. Soft and moist apple cake layers are topped with crunchy caramelized walnuts, filled with dulce de leche buttercream and topped with salted caramel sauce.
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Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars
Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars – buttery crust, creamy cheese, tender apples, streusel topping, everything drizzled with caramel sauce – the best fall dessert.
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Banoffee Pie
Banoffee Pie
Banoffee Pie – delicious biscuit crust, caramel and flavored ripe bananas for filling, topped with coffee flavored whipped cream and crispy chocolate curls.
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Caramel Pecan Pumpkin Roll
Caramel Pecan Pumpkin Roll
Pumpkin Roll is one of the most classic desserts for the Thanksgiving table that everybody loves. Make this cake the star of the evening by adding caramel, toasted pecans, which bring an amazing flavor and texture that will surely delight and impress all your guests and family.
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Caramel and Chocolate Recipes

Explore the perfect harmony of rich chocolate and velvety caramel with our decadent chocolate and caramel dessert collection. From luscious cakes to cheesecakes and chewy cookie and tarts, discover irresistible recipes that will satisfy your sweetest cravings.

chocolate caramel mousse cake
Chocolate Caramel Mousse Cake
This Chocolate Caramel Mousse Cake is an elegant and delicate dessert perfect for celebrating the fall season. Chocolate with salted caramel is a combination that is very appreciated worldwide. This mousse cake surely puts these two flavors in value in a very delightful way. 
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Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart
Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart
Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart -Chocolaty, buttery almond crust, gooey salted caramel and bittersweet chocolate ganache, all garnished with salted crystals.
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Chocolate Cheesecake Flan
Chocolate Cheesecake Flan
This Chocolate Cheesecake Flan is an elegant dessert that combines chocolate and caramel in a flan form. Yes, it is possible to make a caramel flan with chocolate. It is heavenly, so smooth and creamy, rich in chocolate and caramel flavor. It’s simply irresistible and hard not to love it.
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Chocolate Macarons with Salted Caramel Filling
Chocolate Macarons with Salted Caramel Filling
The idea of making chocolate macarons with salted caramel filling is simply amazing. The salted caramel blends perfectly with the chocolate macaron shells, cutting through the sweetness and making them the best macarons I've made so far.
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Easy Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake
Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake
This Chocolate and Caramel Poke Cake is a delicious, moist, flavorful cake that is quite impressive for the little effort it implies.
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Chocolate Caramel Lava Cake
Chocolate Caramel Lava Cake
There is no doubt that most of the people love Lava Cakes. With their gooey lava center this dessert is one of the most decadent desserts I have ever known. So it should be no surprise why I keep turning back to it and try to recreate it in various ways.
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Chocolate Royal - Trianonn
Chocolate Royal – Trianon
As a chocolate lover I simply fell in love with this elegant French dessert called Chocolate Royal or Trianon. A hazelnut and almond dacquoise topped with a crunchy praline, covered in chocolate mousse and a cocoa mirror glaze. What not to love about this?
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Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake
Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake
This Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake is a decadent rich cake, full of flavor and texture. Three layers of moist chocolate cakes, enriched with toasted pecans and filled with salted caramel sauce and a cream cheese caramel frosting, topped with a beautiful and impressive caramel sail. If you love salted caramel and chocolate, this cake is a dream come true. Serve each slice of cake with more caramel sauce for an unforgettable experience.
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Homemade Twix Bars - Caramel Chocolate Bars
Homemade Twix Bars
You can hardly beat these homade Twix candy bars, they are rich, buttery and chocolaty, a thick buttery crust topped with chewy caramel and a thick chocolate layer on top. Simply amazing and quite addictive.
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Chocolate Caramel Truffles
Chocolate Caramel Truffles
If you like how chocolate and caramel go together you will definitely love these caramel and chocolate truffles. Sweet, a bit salty, chocolaty and chewy, with a great flavor and a crispy texture coming from the cocoa nibs, quite hard not to get in love with them.
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No-Bake Twix Cheesecake
No-Bake Twix Cheesecake
f you like Twix Bars and you like salted caramel you should definitely try this No-Bake Twix Cheesecake. A crispy biscuit crust, a caramel cream cheese filling and chopped twix bars, topped with salted caramel and chocolate ganache. It is one of the most decadent desserts I have ever made. It is simply heavenly and very easy to prepare.
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Caramel and Nuts

Caramel and nuts have always made a great pair which you can discover in our mouthwatering desserts. From chocolate hazelnut spread to decadent caramel and walnut mirror cake or pecan caramel mousse cake you can enjoy a delightful blend of sweet and crunchy flavors.

Walnut Caramel Mirror Cake
Walnut Caramel Mirror Cake
This Walnut Caramel Mirror Cake consists of a walnut cake at the bottom, followed by a semisweet chocolate layer, caramelized toasted nuts and a mascarpone and coffee mousse on top. The cake is coated with a caramel mirror glaze and decorated with a chocolate golden flower for o more elegant look.
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Snickers Mousse Cake - Chocolate Caramel Peanut Mousse Cake
Snickers Mousse Cake – Chocolate Caramel Peanut Mousse Cake
This amazing Snickers Mousse Cake is made of a chocolate peanut sponge cake at the bottom topped with an irresistible gooey salted caramel and peanut layer, covered in a silky flavorful peanut and cream cheese mousse and chocolate glaze. Can it get any better than this?
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pecan caramel mousse cake
Pecan Caramel Mousse Cake
This Pecan Caramel Mousse Cake is an elegant delightful cake that is perfect for fall days and especially for Thanksgiving table. The cake consists of two layers of vanilla sponge cake with caramel pecan topping and with a smooth custard salted caramel mousse filling.
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Homemade Nutella - Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Spread
Homemade Nutella – Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Spread
This amazing Chocolate Hazelnut Praline Spread is a delectable fusion of rich chocolate and nutty hazelnut, perfect for spreading, dipping, or simply savoring by the spoonful.
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Caramel Carrot Cake
Caramel Carrot Cake
This incredible Caramel Carrot Cake recipe, with its two layers of moist carrot cake and delicious frosting, will leave your taste buds in heaven.
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Our 30 best caramel recipes not only taste amazing, but they also look fantastic. Hope you will try each of them and enjoy as much as we did. If you do, make sure to share the photos with me on Instagram. Would love to see how each of them turns out for you.

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  1. Crème brulée is my favorite dessert..my secret passion 🙂 I had it for the first time many years ago in France, and ever since then, I prepare it once a month. Personally, I also enjoy making caramel protein or oat bars frequently because they are convenient to grab and eat quickly.

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