1,265 carmel recipes

Homemade Cracker Jacks with popped popcorn, peanuts, and a chewy molasses-sugar coating. Just four ingredients and no corn syrup for a nostalgic caramel corn snack from scratch.

Roasted Long Island duck with a gastrique sauce made from caramelized sugar, red wine vinegar, and duck stock, garnished with fresh grapefruit sections. A refined, restaurant-level dish.

Penuche topped cake with a brown sugar, butter, and nut streusel baked right on a vanilla sheet cake. Served warm with whipped cream for a caramelized, crunchy finish.

Upside-down apple pie with a caramelized pecan and brown sugar base that becomes a sticky, nutty topping when flipped. Cinnamon-nutmeg spiced apples in a double crust.

Classic French onion soup with deeply caramelized onions, brown stock, white wine, and Cognac, topped with toasted bread rounds and melted Swiss cheese. A true bistro-style recipe.

Maple-basted broiled bluefish: oily Atlantic fish brushed with pure maple syrup, allspice, salt, and pepper, broiled or grilled until lightly caramelized. New England seafood in 20 minutes.

Easy nut fudge made entirely in the microwave with brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk, and powdered sugar. Caramel-toned penuche-style fudge with crunchy nuts, no thermometer needed.

Nut refrigerator cookies (icebox cookies) with brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and chopped nuts. Slice-and-bake dough that chills overnight and yields crisp, buttery cookies with caramel notes.

Stir-fried tofu or beef with onions tosses pressed tofu (or sliced flank steak) in a sherry-soy-ginger marinade, then wok-cooks with caramelized onions and garlic.

Buttermilk pound cake with brown sugar, plumped currants, anise extract, and orange marmalade glaze. A dense, deeply flavored tube-pan cake with caramel undertones and old-fashioned charm.

Minted pears with honey walnuts poaches whole baby pears in honey-sweetened mint tea, then crowns them with caramelized walnuts. Elegant fruit dessert that works hot or chilled.

Spiced cranberry relish caramelizes sugar, then cooks fresh cranberries with diced orange, lime, raisins, ginger, cinnamon, and vanilla bean for a complex holiday relish that improves with time.

Microwave coffee cake bakes a cinnamon-sugar topped tender crumb cake in just 6 minutes, then finishes under the broiler for a caramelized crackly top. Coffee break ready.

Red lentil soup with caramelized onions, dried mint, and paprika simmered in beef stock. A pantry-friendly soup that purees silky or stays brothy with tender lentils throughout.

Roasted tomato soup purees caramelized roasted tomatoes with potato, onion, and vegetable stock for a creamy bowl with no cream needed. Vegetarian comfort soup ready in 45 minutes.

Molasses rye bread with half a cup of dark molasses for deep color and caramel sweetness. Two round loaves, rye and bread flour, milk-based dough. German-style.