Rich, fudgy brownies laced with a caramel drizzle and sprinkled with sea salt.

Remember that caramel sauce I posted last week? Well that fresh homemade caramel sauce went straight into another recipe! These amazing-drool-inducing-over-the-top-sea-salt-caramel-brownies. YUP.

I used my recipe for The Best Brownies and made them with cocoa powder instead of melting chocolate (because I was too lazy to go to the store to get the chocolate), and loaded them up with homemade caramel sauce! And to take them one step further, I sprinkled them in sea salt.

These were one of those recipes that you have to get rid of FAST. I was afraid I'd eat the whole pan, so I stashed them in the freezer ASAP. Now I have them at the ready for whenever I'm craving one.

Enjoy!

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Sea Salt Caramel Brownies

by Julia Hampton- Sprinkled With Jules September-17-2015

Rich brownies laced with caramel drizzles and sprinkled in sea salt.

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup cocoa powder
2 eggs
1 cup brown sugar
1 tea. vanilla
1/2 tea. salt
1/2 tea. espresso powder
1/2 cup flour
about 1/2 cup caramel sauce
1 tea. sea salt

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325°F. Melt butter, and whisk in cocoa powder. Set aside to cool.2. In a medium bowl, whisk eggs and brown sugar. Mix in vanilla. Once butter mixture has cooled to room temperature, whisk that into the sugar mixture.3. All at once, add the salt, espresso powder, and flour. GENLTY stir JUST until combined, stirring no more. Pour 1/2 of the batter into a prepared 9 inch pan. Drizzle 1/4 a cup of caramel sauce over the top. Then pour the remaining 1/2 of the brownie batter and spread over the caramel layer. Drizzle the remaining 1/4 cup of caramel sauce over the top, and drag a toothpick through it to create a design, if desired. Sprinkle with sea salt.4. Bake at 325 for about 25-35 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with just a few crumbs. Let cool completely before cutting and serving. Serve with additional caramel sauce if desired!

Details

Prep time: Cook time: 30 mins Total time: Yield: 1- 9" pan