Each bite will give you a little sweet and a little Salted Caramel Shortbread Bars are the Best Christmas Treat! I have had success with placing in the fridge to cool to speed up the I adapted this recipe from the recipe for Salted Caramel Butter Bars from the Domestic Rebel blog. I love baking during the holiday season – I don’t worry about calories throughout the month of December, I have January for all that yucky stuff. Easy peasey. Perfectly indulgent caramel butter bar dessert! It will not ruin the shortbread, I promise. Now that it is officially December, I think it’s appropriate to have my mixing stand ready to use at all times, don’t you!? Salted Caramel Butter Bars are the perfect easy to make bar with a buttery and crumbly shortbread crust and topping combined with a smooth layer of caramel throughout. If you adore caramel like I do, you’ll love these bars but you’ll also love these Carmelitas, Salted Caramel Brownie Bites or Homemade Caramels too. Another Easter recipe. I felt that the recipe needed more salt. Pour caramel onto cooled shortbread, sprinkle immediately with coarse sea salt. I love to experiment with different recipes and combine classic and new flavors. I've been making this shortbread for over 20 years and finally have found the perfect pairing! Millionaire Shortbread Recipe You’ll love biting through the soft and chewy top layers of this slice, then into that crisp, buttery base. Shortbread should be slightly cooled- mine usually goes from the oven to the freezer and sits for about ten minutes before I pour on the caramel. However, this could be because the Smuckers Salted Caramel sauce is not very salty. These Salted Caramel Butter Bars look complicated but they are actually super easy because the bottom crust and the top crumble are the same shortbread dough. They came together in just under an hour, but 50 minutes of that time was spent impatiently waiting for the bars to cook! I love salted caramel, and of course I love dark chocolate, so I layered these two flavors with my favorite shortbread crust. Easy peasey. Salted Caramel Bar recipe made with a sweet shortbread crust & topped with smooth caramel and sea salt. I use dark chocolate instead Allow to sit at room temperature 1-2 hours or until caramel has cooled and set.