Salted Cashew Caramel Bars

Name: Salted Cashew Caramel Bars
Prep time: 3 h 40 min
Cook time: 3 h 40 min
Total time: 3 h 40 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoons baking powder; 1 large egg; 283 grams cups (about all-purpose flour; 237 milliliters heavy cream; 1 teaspoons kosher salt; 1 teaspoons salt; 473 milliliters salted roasted cashews; 298 grams 1/2 cups (about sugar; 6 Tbsps unsalted butter, roughly cut into pieces; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1 teaspoons vanilla extract

You can never have too many hor d'oeuvre recipes, so give Salted Cashew Caramel Bars a try. One portion of this dish contains about 2g of protein, 8g of fat, and a total of 146 calories. This recipe serves 36. This recipe covers 3% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up heavy cream, vanillan extract, flour, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 3 hours and 40 minutes.

Instructions

Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Line a 13- by 9-inch baking pan with foil. Grease foil with butter. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.

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Baking Powder

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Baking Pan

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Aluminum Foil

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In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat together butter and sugar until fluffy and light in color, about 4-5 minutes. Beat in egg, then vanilla. Beat in the flour mixture in two additions, scraping down the sides of the bowl each time.

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Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

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Stand Mixer

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Place dough in prepared pan. Using either floured hands or a piece of plastic wrap, press dough evenly into the bottom of the greased baking pan.

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Wrap

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Let chill in refrigerator for 20 minutes.

Bake crust until golden brown, about 30 minutes.

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Crust

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Oven

Remove crust, but keep oven on.

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Crust

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Let crust cool completely. While crust is cooling, make filling.

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Crust

Place sugar in a nonstick saucepan over medium high heat.

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Sugar

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Let stand until bottom layer of sugar begins to melt, then start stirring, continuing to stir until sugar has turned light brown in color and smooth in texture.

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Sugar

Pour in heavy cream, being careful of it splattering. Stir constantly until mixture is smooth again, about 5 minutes. Turn down heat and stir in butter, vanilla, and salt. Take mixture off heat and stir in cashews.

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Heavy Cream