Caramel Week Recipes - Baking with Granny®

Caramel Week recipes are all about sticky layers, glossy sauces and getting that unmistakable cooked-sugar flavour just right. From Caramel Slice and Treacle Tart to Sticky Toffee Pudding, caramel cheesecake and salted caramel brownies, these 10 recipes have plenty for anyone with a sweet tooth.

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Which Caramel Week Recipe Should I Make?

Best for beginners: Mars Bar Slice
Classic British bake: Treacle Tart
Classic Scottish bake: Caramel Slice
Something really caramel-packed: Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes
Something impressive: Caramel Cheesecake

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Caramel Recipes for Bake Off Caramel Week

If Caramel Week on The Great British Bake Off – or The Great British Baking Show, as it’s known in the US – has left you craving something sticky and sweet, you’re in the right place.

Caramel can be surprisingly technical. Depending on what you’re making, it might need to stay soft and gooey, set into a neat layer or be cooked to just the right point before it catches and turns bitter. Then there are all the closely related toffee, fudge and cooked-sugar bakes that bring those same rich, caramel flavours.

For this collection, I’ve picked seven Baking with Granny favourites, including Caramel Slice, Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes, Treacle Tart and Scottish Tablet. And because there were a few caramel-shaped gaps in my own recipe collection, I’ve also included three delicious recipes from my fellow food blogger friends.

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10 Caramel Week Recipes to Bake at Home

4.8 from 6 votes

Caramel Slice (Millionaires Shortbread)

Possibly the most obvious Caramel Week bake of the lot! Also known as Millionaire's Shortbread, Caramel Slice has a crisp shortbread-style base, a thick layer of homemade caramel and a chocolate topping – three very good things all stacked on top of one another.

As seen in Bake Off: Millionaire's Shortbread is the Technical Challenge for Series 17 Caramel Week.

Caramel Slice Recipe

Stacked slices of Millionaires Shortbread with defined layers of shortbread base, thick caramel centre, and chocolate topping.

Chocolate Caramel Cupcakes

For the baker who firmly believes chocolate and caramel belong together. These chocolate cupcakes have a hidden dulce de leche centre, with more caramel mixed through the buttercream and drizzled over the top.

Caramel Chocolate Cupcakes Recipe

4.9 from 10 votes

Sticky Toffee Pudding

The one to choose when you want proper comfort food. A soft date sponge has a deep caramel flavour before being served warm with plenty of rich homemade toffee sauce – especially good with custard, cream or ice cream.

As seen in Bake Off: Individual Sticky Toffee Puddings have previously appeared as a Technical Challenge during Dessert Week.

Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe

Warm sticky toffee pudding sponge with toffee sauce being poured over the top, dripping down the edges onto the plate.

5 from 2 votes

Caramac Cupcakes

For anyone who loves that distinctive sweet, creamy caramel flavour. These soft cupcakes are made with golden caster sugar and melted Caramac, then topped with Caramac buttercream and an extra piece of chocolate to finish.

Caramac Cupcakes Recipe

Caramac Cupcakes. Caramel white chooclate cupcakes, topped with a caramac buttercream and square of chocolate.

5 from 8 votes

Treacle Tart

A proper British classic and an especially appropriate choice for Caramel Week. Sweet shortcrust pastry is filled with a sticky mixture of golden syrup, fresh breadcrumbs and lemon for an old-fashioned pudding that's particularly good served warm with custard or ice cream.

As seen in Bake Off: Treacle Tart is the Signature Challenge for Series 17 Caramel Week.

Treacle Tart Recipe

Close-up of sliced treacle tart with a crunchy golden top and syrupy centre. A traditional British bake, perfect for pudding.

5 from 12 votes

Mars Bar Slice

The easiest recipe in the collection, and you don't even need to turn the oven on. Mars Bars are melted with margarine/butter and mixed with Rice Krispies before being topped with chocolate, giving you plenty of chewy caramel flavour with very little effort.

Mars Bar Slice Recipe

Homemade Mars Bar Slice with a chocolate rice crispy base, topped with smooth milk chocolate and pieces of Mars Bar.

5 from 63 votes

Scottish Tablet

Not technically caramel, but absolutely at home in a week that's all about mastering cooked sugar. Traditional Scottish Tablet is boiled to the soft-ball stage before being beaten and left to set, giving it that distinctive crumbly, melt-in-the-mouth texture that's quite different from fudge.

Scottish Tablet Recipe

Caramel Pecan Banana Bread

Guest recipe by Therese Buchanan at Tessie's Table!

A great one if you fancy giving a familiar banana loaf a Caramel Week twist. This soft banana bread has chopped pecans and ribbons of caramel baked through it, then is finished with even more caramel and pecans on top.

Caramel Pecan Banana Bread Recipe

Caramel pecan banana bread topped with caramel drizzle and toasted pecans.

Caramel Cheesecake

Guest recipe by Jules Grasekamp at Bonni Bakery!

The one I'd choose if I wanted something a little more showstopper-worthy. This creamy baked cheesecake has homemade caramel folded through the filling and drizzled over the top, all sitting on a buttery biscuit base.

Caramel Cheesecake Recipe

Slice of creamy caramel cheesecake with biscuit base and caramel sauce.

Fudgy Salted Caramel Brownies

Guest recipe by Emily Leary at A Mummy Too!

A great shortcut when you want maximum chocolate-and-caramel payoff without spending all day in the kitchen. A chocolate brownie mix is upgraded with swirls of dulce de leche and a sprinkling of sea salt for gooey salted caramel brownies that are especially easy to make.

Fudgy Salted Caramel Brownies Recipe

Fudgy chocolate brownies swirled with caramel and sprinkled with sea salt.

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Amy Beth Reid

Amy Beth Reid is an award-winning food blogger, mother, wife and cookbook author. Inspired by her childhood in the kitchen with her Mum – a professional baker and her children’s Granny – Amy now shares her tried-and-tested traditional home baking recipes with bakers of all abilities around the world. She lives in Scotland with her husband, two sons and her small pack of Siberian huskies.

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