Calling All Caramel Lovers - 14 Sweet (and a Few Savory) Recipes You’ll Love!

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on October 11, 2025

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Celebrate fall with these irresistible caramel recipes! From rich sauces, chewy candies and decadent cakes, there's something for everyone.

Anything caramel-flavored is a huge hit in our family! Caramel is wonderful during the fall season. It pairs well with all the other fall flavors like pumpkin and apple. And while it's delicious in all kinds of desserts and sweet treats, we also love it in savory dishes. Check out the recipes below and enjoy them all season long!

Squares of sea salted pumpkin caramels arranged on a white cake stand with a small pumpkin in the center, showcasing their rich color and glossy finish.

Some of these recipes have free printable labels that we are happy to email you. Just leave a comment on each post you are interested in, and we will send them your way.

Ridiculously Easy Cream Cheese Brownie Tart

This fabulously delicious dessert is ridiculously easy to make, comes together in minutes and looks like a work of art from a fancy bake shop!!

Salted caramels wrapped in plastic in a blue and white bowl.

8 Minute Microwave Salted Caramels

Crazy delicious homemade caramels in less than 15 minutes (hands-on time)! Everyone who tries them will be begging for more!

Caramel apple shortbread tarts on a white cake stand with apples and red and white napkins.

Ridiculously Easy Caramel Apple Shortbread Tarts

If you enjoy caramel apples and shortbread cookies, you will love these Caramel Apple Shortbread Tarts. They're crisp, buttery, apple-filled little bites of heaven!

Chocolate caramel turtle bark cut into pieces on a white plate.

Ridiculously Easy Chocolate Caramel Turtle Bark

This 20-minute Turtle Bark, a delicious modern twist on the classic chocolate shop favorite, is sweet, salty and irresistibly delicious! It's pretty as a picture and the free printable labels make it perfect for gifting!

Salted Caramel Shortbread Bites with jars of milk and pink flowers

Ridiculously Easy Salted Caramel Shortbread Bites

These crazy delicious Salted Caramel Shortbread Bites look fancy but come together quickly with a one-bowl shortbread dough and the easiest caramel ever!

Pumpkin caramels on a white cake stand with a small orange pumpkin.

Ridiculously Easy Sea-Salted Pumpkin Microwave Caramels

Make these buttery, chewy Sea-Salted Pumpkin Microwave Caramels (with real pumpkin!) in way less than an hour. Then wait for the rave reviews to come rolling in! The free printable labels make them perfect for gifting!

Vietnamese caramel shrimp with pineapple basil salsa in a cast iron skillet with a bowl of white rice, gold forks and blue napkins.

Vietnamese Caramel Shrimp with Pineapple Basil Salsa

This Vietnamese Caramel Shrimp is sweet, salty and super delicious. It comes together quickly and the Pineapple Basil Salsa is a fresh, vibrant garnish!

Caramel pecan buttermilk cake on a wooden cake stand with flowers.

Ridiculously Easy Caramel Pecan Buttermilk Cake

This Caramel Pecan Buttermilk Cake might just be one of the easiest and most delicious cakes you'll ever make! The cake mixes up in less than 10 minutes and the fabulous pecan caramel topping won't even take that long!

Apple Cider Caramel Sauce in a glass jar on a wooden cutting board with apples and spoons.

Salted Apple Cider Caramel Sauce

This silky smooth Apple Cider Caramel Sauce is buttery and bursting with delicious, fresh apple flavor. It's wonderful on ice cream and is also a fabulous way to pizzaz up any fall dessert!

Vietnamese caramelized pork bowls with rice and toppings on a wooden table.

Vietnamese Caramelized Pork Bowls

This tender, flavorful Vietnamese Caramelized Pork, made with lean pork tenderloin, is much healthier than the classic Asian take-out favorite.

Caramel buttermilk sheet cake with a slice cut on a plate and pink and orange napkins and flowers.

Ridiculously Easy Caramel Buttermilk Sheet Cake

With just one bowl and a whisk, you can put together this FABULOUS Caramel Buttermilk Sheet Cake. The melt-in-your-mouth caramel icing is as easy as the cake!

Caramel sauce in a glass jar with spoons and bowls in the background.

Easy Microwave Caramel Sauce

Although it tastes like the decadently delicious, old-fashioned kind, this microwave caramel sauce is amazingly easy and involves less than 5 minutes of hands-on time!

Caramel almond shortbread bars on a white platter.

Honey Caramel Almond Shortbread Bars

With a buttery shortbread base and a chewy caramel topping loaded with crisp almonds, these Honey Caramel Almond Shortbread Bars are always a HUGE hit!

Caramel apple cake on a white cake stand with a white vase with red flowers and forks.

French Caramel Apple Cake

This delicious Caramel Apple Cake couldn't be easier with a simple microwave caramel sauce, a one-bowl, no-mixer cake recipe and no need to even peel the apples!

Caramel Apples with wooden sticks on a white cake stand.

Easy Homemade Caramel Apples

These Easy Homemade Caramel Apples taste a hundred times better than anything you can buy. Make a dozen apples in less than an hour!

Thought for the day:

Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.
Revelation 4:11

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6 Comments

    1. Hi Joanna, I have added that recipe to the post. That was a slip up on my part! If you refresh the post, it will be at the top.

  1. Your site and recipes are fabulous. My latest creations have been your ridiculously easy pumpkin scones. So delicious! But where is the actual recipe for the tart that is the focal point of this post? Did I miss it in the list of 14?

  2. The caramel recipes look amazing... but what is the recipe for the photo that was used for this blog????
    It looks like possibly a Tahini Swirl Brownie done in a tart pan....
    Please let us know!