Caramel au Beurre Salé

The French know that if you want your food to taste out of this world, you gotta use real ingredients.

Real butter, mmm….

Yes, its diabolical! Yes, its beyond delicious! And wouldn’t you rather put real, fresh butter in your body that chemical substitutes?

I could go on and on about everything they put butter into here. (And look, the French are so thin!) The list is long and gorgeous. What I came here to talk about today are salted butter caramels. Oh, (sharp inhalation of breath) yummy!

Caramel au beurre sale are a speciality of the Bretagne area of France. Bretagne is located along the Atlantic coast. Cows graze on grass that is covered with salt from the ocean. Their milk is naturally salted, therefore the butter in the region is naturally salted. These caramels are made in Bretagne with local naturally salted butter and sugar. (By the way, sheep in Bretagne also graze on this salted grass and the lamb is natuallry salted—delicious!)

Ya, I know. Pretty tempting, n’est ce pas!

It looks like this when ready to eat.

An evil friend dropped by with a package of caramel au beurre sale three days ago. Since then I have been making myself sick eating them. They are sticky and chewy and sugary and salty. They call to me from the little drawer in my desk where I hide them from the kids. I can’t resist!

Oops, eating one now! Sticky fingers on keyboard is not a good thing! Must go and finish the rest!

A demain.

Love, Charley