Chocolate-Covered Caramels

Name: Chocolate-Covered Caramels
Ingredients: 1 , vanilla bean; 1 cup, heavy cream; 5 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ¼-inch pieces; 1 teaspoon, flake sea salt, plus extra for garnishing; 1⅓ cups (9⅓ ounces/265 grams), sugar; ¼ cup, light corn syrup; ¼ cup, water; 1 pound (454 grams), semisweet chocolate (12 ounces [340 grams] chopped, 4 ounces [113 grams] finely grated)

Desserts or Baked Goods
Chocolate
Candy

By Sam Block

In the confection world, no candy is quite as sophisticated as the chocolate-cloaked salted caramel.

SERVES Makes 64 caramels

TIME 55 minutes, plus 1 hour cooling, 1 hour chilling and 1 hour firming

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