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Salted Caramel Tart

By:Nagi
Published:18 Aug '17Updated:13 Nov '20
230 Comments
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If you love salted caramel and chocolate, this Salted Caramel Tart is your dream come true! The creamy caramel filling is made with condensed milk, a secret trick for making perfect soft-set caramel without using a candy thermometer. With a biscuit crust and luxurious chocolate ganache topping, it’s hard to believe you only need 6 ingredients to make this!

A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! www.recipetineats.com

“OMG, that caramel tart!”, my friend exclaimed. “You’ve probably given my whole family diabetes, but OMG!!!!”

I grinned, gleefully. “I know, it’s INSANE, isn’t it?”

This is probably the most indulgent dessert I know how to make. It’s sinfully decadent. The caramel filling is truly incredible – it’s smooth, creamy, thick and so soft.

It’s made using a caramel base of butter plus sugar (for the caramel flavour) which is then combined with condensed milk. Once baked, it sets, almost like a soft custard. It’s different to the traditional method of making caramel fillings which require the caramel to come to a specific temperature at which point it will set to be a soft creamy caramel, rather than runny or hard. i.e. Candy thermometer required.

I have it in my head that this is the Australian way of making a creamy caramel. I’d love to know if anyone knows otherwise. I feel like it’s an undiscovered secret because I never seem to see caramel tarts/pies/bars/slices etc made using condensed milk.

A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! www.recipetineats.com

This tart is made with a simple biscuit crust. That caramel was made for using as a glue to suction up all the loose crumbs when you inhale your slice!

This is how I press the crumbs into the tart tin – using something flat and round with straight walls. I’m using a measuring cup here. Use it to press the crumbs into the wall and a knife or your finger to level out the top of the crust, and to level out the base of the tart.

A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! www.recipetineats.com

As for the topping – what else could it be other than a chocolate ganache? 🙂 This ganache has a slightly different chocolate to cream ratio than traditional ganache recipes (which are usually 1:1) so the chocolate is soft but cuttable without smearing so you get nice neat tart slices.

A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! www.recipetineats.com

Many readers have jokingly noted how my very recognisable hands have been absent in videos recently. Shooting videos by yourself is seriously hard work when you have a simple home set up like I do. I’ve been thinking about getting a studio, setting things up “properly”. A permanent video shoot area with studio lights, a kitchen, getting a permanent support team and making my life a little – ALOT – easier.

But for me, one of the things I love about my blog is how personal it is. Everything that you see is made in my pokey kitchen, the recipes are my own, created by me, tested by me, taste tested by family and friends. The larger a team gets, the less personal this website will become. Does anyone here seriously think that Martha Stewart creates every recipe that ends up on her website, her magazines, cookbooks and TV shows?

I enjoy making my own videos, shooting them, editing them. In a bid to make my life slightly easier, I get my mother or a helper to come in once a week to help with food prep, double/triple/quadruple test recipes, and most importantly in my world, help with the washing up.

And because everybody has nicer hands than me, I can never resist calling on my help to be my video hand model. 😂 Plus the incredible convenience of not having to wipe my hands and dash around to check the camera with every single micro step in every video! For a recipe like this, if I shot it myself, I would have to do that about 40 times – at least.

I feel like this post is a little all over the place and a bit stilted.

I’ll be honest. I’m a bit tarted out. I’m really trying to drum up the enthusiasm for what is possibly the most raved about dessert ever by my taste testers – and that includes the homeless man at the dog park.

But I’ve made this seven times in a week and half!! Testing + a couple of video fails.

As I said, I’m tarted out!!

My friends are not. I definitely did not run out of willing taste testers to even take the ones I wasn’t 100% happy with. 🙂

To be clear, Dozer was not one of those taste testers. No chocolate for dogs!! – Nagi xx


For Caramel Monsters

  • Caramel Slice (aka Millionaire’s Shortbread!) – the great Aussie favourite!

  • Salted Caramel Stuffed Brownies

  • Peanut Butter Caramel Tart – dangerously easy

  • Sweetened Condensed Milk Caramel – just place a can of condensed milk in the slow cooker!

More slices and bars

  • Brownies!!

  • Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars

  • Strawberry Bars – made with tons of fresh strawberries!

  • Easiest Ever Raspberries Jam Bars

  • Easy Lemon Bars

A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! www.recipetineats.com

A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! www.recipetineats.com

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A sinfully decadent Salted Caramel Tart with a creamy soft salted caramel filling topped with luxurious chocolate ganache. Just SIX ingredients! recipetineats.com

Salted Caramel Tart

Author: Nagi
Prep: 15 mins
Cook: 25 mins
Total: 40 mins
Sweet Baking
4.92 from 50 votes
Servings12
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This is made using the Australian way of making creamy caramel using condensed milk. While most recipes use golden syrup to get the caramel flavour, I find it works better to use a simple caramel – better flavour and the caramel is creamier. You don’t need a candy thermometer, and the caramel sets perfectly so it is beautifully soft and doesn’t run everywhere when you cut it. The topping is a chocolate ganache that is soft and melds into the caramel with every bite. This is decadent and luxurious, yet straight forward to make. Great show off dessert!!! Recipe VIDEO below.

Ingredients

Base:

  • 225 g / 8 oz plain sweet biscuits, about 2 cups (packed) crushed (Arnott’s Marie Crackers, Graham Crackers, Note 1 for Digestives)
  • 150 g / 5 oz unsalted butter , melted (Note 1 for Digestives)

Caramel:

  • 100 g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 cup / 200g (packed) brown sugar
  • 2 cans sweetened condensed milk (395g / 14oz each)
  • 1 3/4 tsp salt (2 ½ - 3 tsp salt flakes)

Chocolate Ganache Topping:

  • 1/3 cup heavy/thickened cream
  • 150 g / 5 oz dark chocolate melts / chips
  • Sea salt flakes, for topping

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 160C/320F. Grease and line the base only of a 23cm / 9" tart tin with a loose base. (Or a springform pan of a similar size)
  • Roughly break up biscuits and place in a food processor, then whizz until fine crumbs form. Or do this step with a ziplock bag and rolling pin.
  • Pour crumbs into a bowl, add melted butter, mix until it looks like wet sand and no dry crumbs remain. Pour into tin, then press firmly into base and sides – use something flat like a cup to assist (refer to video).
  • Transfer to tray (safe handling), place in oven and bake for 10 minutes, then remove and cool slightly (5 minutes in fridge).

Caramel:

  • Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add sugar and whisk to combine – butter may not incorporate fully. 
  • Once it starts bubbling and the sugar is completely melted, pour in the condensed milk, whisking as you go. Whisk constantly until you see steam coming off the caramel (~ 4 minutes), then remove from heat.
  • Add salt (adjust to taste), then pour the caramel into the tart base.
  • Bake for 15 minutes or until the edges of the caramel surface is golden and the surface has a “skin” on it, but the caramel is still soft and the centre jiggles slightly (see video for demo.)
  • Cool on counter while you make the chocolate.

Chocolate Ganache:

  • Place cream and chocolate in a heat proof bowl. Microwave in 2 x 30 second bursts, stirring in between, until smooth.
  • Set aside for 10 minutes to thicken slightly, then pour over the base. Smooth top or make swirls like I did (just wait until the chocolate thickens slightly). Sprinkle with sea salt flakes.
  • Refrigerate for 1 ½ hours to allow chocolate to set. Then remove and bring to room temperature before slicing to serve. Handle carefully when sliding the tart off the base - or just leave it on to be safe and just remove the sides.

Recipe Notes:

1. It's best to go by weight. Using Arnott's Marie crackers and Arrowroot (popular plain sweet biscuits in Australia), it will be about 2 cups (packed). If using Graham Crackers, it will be closer to 2.5 cups. 
Another biscuit that is terrific to use for a biscuit crust is Digestives which is very popular in the UK/Europe and also quite popular here in Australia. If you use Digestives, reduce the butter to 75g because they are more buttery than Marie Crackers and Graham Crackers. 
Other biscuits: Basically any plain biscuit works great like Arnott's Arrowroot works great, and even flavoured ones like Gingernut. You need about 2 cups (packed) once crushed, so if you use a different type of biscuit than those listed above, just check the quantity by measuring the crumbs in a cup measure. 
2. STORAGE - This tart keeps SO WELL! It will keep in an airtight container for a week and still taste like it was made yesterday albeit the crust on the edge does soften a bit, but most people wouldn't even notice (I don't think). If it's super hot where you are i.e. the chocolate becomes melty, keep it in the fridge but always bring to room temperature before serving otherwise the caramel won't be creamy. It also freezes great - again, bring to room temp before serving. I've only frozen it for a couple of weeks but see no reason why it wouldn't keep for several months.
3. This is a VERY rich tart. I find that when cut into 12 (so quarters, then each quarter into 3), a slice is too much for me. So I have said that this serves 14 to 16. The nutrition is for 14 servings.

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 139gCalories: 562cal (28%)
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Salted Caramel Tart recipe video. So you can see how soft that caramel is and don’t miss the Dozer cameo at the end!!


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Checking himself out while I was making the recipe video!! 😂

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230 Comments

  1. Di Unwin says

    February 27, 2020 at 7:49 pm

    Looks yummy
    Maybe for an Easter treat?

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      February 28, 2020 at 12:49 pm

      Sounds like a great idea Di!

      Reply
  2. Lisa says

    December 18, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    Omg this has made me drool can’t wait to make this. Nagi thankyou for your info on Japanese knives I am going to Japan next year and was thinking about bringing some home. I am left handed and your info was great thanks so much. Merry Christmas to you and your family and of course Dozer

    Reply
  3. TAMMY says

    December 17, 2019 at 2:25 am

    5 stars
    I’ve made this tart three times in two weeks! Everyone loves it and it is so easy. I’ve used Biscoff cookies for the crust, with only 4oz of butter. It keeps well so is great for making ahead, and serves a lot because it is so rich! Delish!

    Reply
  4. Lucia says

    December 12, 2019 at 12:38 pm

    Hi!!! Im from México and I have tried this receipe 3 times because I once made it while living in Australia, I dont know what happens but my caramel never sets! (It did in Australia) i dint know if its the ingredients or what, but my caramel gets separated from the butter. So I end up with some greasy liquid on top! What can I do??? Help

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 12, 2019 at 5:21 pm

      Hi Lucia, are the ingredients that you’re using the same? – N x

      Reply
      • Lucia says

        December 12, 2019 at 10:07 pm

        Hi Nagi, yes they are. And the same quantities. But once I put it in the oven it starts bubbling and after almost 30 min the bubbles get smaller but the thin skin never forms. And there is all this melted butter on top , and the caramel is still liquid. O had to take it out Of the oven because the crust was getting burned…The strange things is that I did it once while I was living in Sydney and It was perfect !!!I loved it and so I have tried it three more times in Mexico and it has never worked. Maybe its my oven

        Reply
        • Jeanne says

          December 18, 2019 at 5:59 am

          Lucia: I’m guessing that one of the ingredients you’re using in Mexico has a different ingredient ratio than the one you used in Australia. Possibly the condensed milk. Maybe it has more water content than the brand in Australia. Good luck!

          Reply
  5. Maria says

    December 10, 2019 at 9:51 pm

    Hi Nadi. I used digestive. And the the tart seems to very crumply. Did not kind of set solid. What have I done wrong?

    Thank you 🙂

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 11, 2019 at 4:19 pm

      Hi Maria, Sorry you had issues here – did you follow the notes in the recipe when using digestive biscuits?

      Reply
      • Maria says

        December 16, 2019 at 8:30 pm

        I did 🙂 it set fine actually. Just took a bit longer. Was crumbly to begin with but became solid 🙂

        Reply
  6. Meaghan says

    November 26, 2019 at 3:47 pm

    Hi Nagi, thank you so very much for all of your fabulous amazing recipes, you are the best, your recipes are easy to follow and everything I make tastes incredible,thank you for sharing 🙏🏻

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      November 27, 2019 at 6:30 am

      Thanks so so so much Meaghan ❤️

      Reply
  7. Shaqueela says

    November 25, 2019 at 12:25 pm

    5 stars
    Hi! Thank you for sharing this recipe. It’s ultra sinful but satisfaction in every bite. Loving the caramel most!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      November 25, 2019 at 7:22 pm

      If you close your eyes whilst eating it the calories don’t count… right?! 😂

      Reply
  8. Malena says

    November 22, 2019 at 11:08 pm

    5 stars
    This is to die for! Just de-li-cious.
    I did it last year for Christmas and it was a total hit (Yeehaa!)
    Now we have the nice fav recipes at hand with the new heart options, I wanted to come back to make sure I won’t miss it! 🙂 Love Dozer checking on him on the screen 😉

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      November 23, 2019 at 4:01 pm

      I’m so glad you loved it Malena!

      Reply
  9. Christine says

    July 18, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    5 stars
    Only made the caramel filling as I already had little tartlet shells I wanted to fill. This caramel filling is tops! Easy to make, sets like a dream, and the addition of the salt at the end is so amazing – the granules of salt stayed and as I’m licking the sweet bowl, ;-), I’m crunching on little bits of salt – a most delightful experience!! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      July 19, 2019 at 9:27 am

      Perfect Christine, sounds divine!

      Reply
  10. Nala says

    July 10, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    Hi Nagi, I want to make this for a work potluck and was wondering if I can lessen the brown sugar to make it less sweet (since it sounds like this is very rich) without disrupting the consistency of the final product. I want to make it so it can be eaten without coffee/tea for non-super sweet tooth folks. Thanks!!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      July 11, 2019 at 9:10 am

      Hi Nala, Sorry I haven’t tried to be honest as I think it will effect the caramel – N x

      Reply
  11. Sara says

    May 28, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    Can this recipe be made in a tray?

    Reply
  12. Marilyn Rose says

    April 24, 2019 at 8:28 am

    Hi Nagi, I am making this recipe and wondering if I can substitute the oreo crust from the peanut butter pie for this caramel tart. Thank you.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      April 24, 2019 at 7:17 pm

      Ohh that sounds decadent!

      Reply
  13. Martijn says

    April 8, 2019 at 9:17 pm

    Helo Nagi’ i tride this cake serveral times and it is so good. Only my caremel filling stays soft. What do i wrong????

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      April 9, 2019 at 8:18 pm

      Hi Martijn, sorry you’re having issues with the caramel – Sounds like you need it cook it slightly longer so it sets. N x

      Reply
      • Martijn says

        April 9, 2019 at 8:36 pm

        Oke thank you’ i m gone try it tomorow and i let you know

        Reply
  14. Kristin says

    March 30, 2019 at 10:36 am

    5 stars
    Made this recipe for my son’s 21st. I made it into small tarts with a sweet shortcrust pastry instead so easier to hold. It was an absolute hit!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      April 1, 2019 at 9:14 am

      Great Kristin!!

      Reply
  15. Moira Pollock says

    March 9, 2019 at 9:08 am

    Epic triumph. How do you pronounce your name?

    Reply
  16. Stef says

    February 28, 2019 at 10:57 am

    Can I use a ceramic tart plate ?

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      February 28, 2019 at 8:28 pm

      Hi Stef, you can but you may have difficulty cutting it and getting it out!

      Reply
      • Oorja says

        May 28, 2020 at 9:58 pm

        Can we halve the recipe to make it in a 5.5” tart pan?

        Reply
  17. Nicole says

    February 21, 2019 at 7:35 pm

    Hi Nagi, I am very very new to this😅. May I ask if there is any difference if I use Billington’s golden caster natural unrefined cane sugar or raw sugar or demenrara instead of brown sugar? Hope to have your advice. Tks!

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      February 22, 2019 at 10:50 am

      Hi Nicole, I actually haven’t tried with another sugar for this recipe, I prefer the flavour of brown sugar and how it makes a nicer caramel with more of a toffee flavour – N x

      Reply
  18. Malena says

    December 26, 2018 at 7:57 am

    I made this OMG salted caramel tart for Christmas eve diner… To die for! Absolutelly delicious!!!! And the step by step recipe made made an outstanding home cook (at least for one day). I feel so thankful to your devoted way of explaining every tiny aspect of the recipe, than i just can say Thank you Nagi!

    Reply
  19. Lisa says

    December 15, 2018 at 2:02 pm

    5 stars
    Hi Nagi,
    Just making this for the second time and it is an absolute winner!! Thank you so very much for your attention to detail in all of your recipes. One quick question though. I want to freeze this today for Christmas and I was wondering if you freeze this in the tin?? I’m nervous about wrapping it for the freezer without the ‘support’ of the tin.
    Thank you for all of your amazing recipes.

    Reply
    • Nagi says

      December 17, 2018 at 12:07 pm

      Hi Lisa, I’d freeze in the tin for support! N x

      Reply
  20. Katherine says

    December 11, 2018 at 4:30 am

    5 stars
    Hi Nagi,
    I love salted caramel chocolate and I am so happy to find this recipe! I was wondering if I can make this ahead, and let it sit in the fridge overnight, will the tart be too hard to eat it the next day? I’m gonna share this at work potluck, so I don’t know how I can reheat the entire tart before serving. Or will the tart still taste fine if I just leave it at room temperature overnight? Thanks a lot!

    Reply
    • Shelley says

      November 19, 2021 at 9:57 pm

      Would love to know the answer to this I currently have it sitting in the fridge since lunch and was going to leave overnight. Will it go hard ? I can get it out before we need it but not sure how long before just don’t want it to be hard

      Reply
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