Sea Salted Caramels

There is one word to describe this treat - DELICIOUS!!!

I cannot stop eating them - which rarely happens. Normally I like to just give all my baking away but not this time. These are so simple and yet so decadent and impressive. Here is the recipe so you too can impress your friends:


1/2 cup condensed milk
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp honey
1 cup dark chocolate chips
1.5 tsp sea salt


Melt the condensed milk, butter, brown sugar and honey together in a heavy bottomed skillet. Bring to a boil and stir constantly for 5 minutes (the texture and colour of the caramel will change). After boiling for 5 min remove from heat and stir constantly for another minute or so. Then pour into a greased 9x5 cake pan - let caramel cool and harden.

To finish, melt the 50% cocoa dark chocolate and pour over the caramel (once cool) then sprinkle with the sea salt.

To die for!

Peach Cake

As I sat in my apartment last night watching the food network I realized I bought WAY too many peaches on the weekend. Like I bought one of those containers with 3lbs of peaches in them. I like peaches - but I can only eat like 1 a day. Needless to say I had a lot of peaches to use up before they got attacked by fruit flies. I wasn't in the mood to make a pie - so I decided to make a cake. I have never eaten a peach cake. I am sure such a thing exists but it is not something I have experienced or baked before. It turned out pretty well I must say - I did a variation on about 3 fruit cake recipes I have seen...

1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 peaches - peeled and mashed
splash of milk
1 cup flour
1.5 tsp baking powder
0.5 tsp salt
3 peeled peaches cut into slices (for on-top of cake)

Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add in the egg and beat until blended. Add in the mashed peaches. Pour in half of the flour mixture, add a splash of milk, add the remaining flour mixture - mix until blended. Pour into a greased 9" pan. Arrange the peach slices on top of the batter and bake in the oven for 25 min @ 350.

Meanwhile, cut together with a fork:
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 0.5 tsp cinnamon
-0.25 tsp nutmeg

After 25 minutes open the oven and crumble the sugar/butter mixture over your cake. Let bake for another 8 minutes until cake is firm to the touch and topping has distributed over the cake.

I think this would taste really good served warm - it was late at night so I let it cool and brought it into work. It's yummy!