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Sweet and Salty Desserts

By Food & Wine
Updated January 11, 2017
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Hit all your tastebuds with these incredible sweet and salty desserts, from chocolate chip cookies with red miso buttercream to salted caramel pie to bacon-bourbon brownies.
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Milk-Chocolate Tart with Pretzel Crust

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This dessert from pastry chef Colleen Grapes, a tribute to the chocolate-covered pretzel, hits just the right salty-sweet note. Grapes mixes crushed pretzels with flour, butter, sugar and egg to make a crunchy crust, pours in a luxurious milk-chocolate filling, then sprinkles on more crushed pretzels as a garnish.

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Salted-Caramel Squares

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Here, tender caramel tops a dense, buttery crust in Zoe Nathan's delicious salty-sweet treats.

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Chocolate-Chip Cookies with Red Miso Buttercream

Chef Erik Bruner-Yang adds umami to the classic sugar-salt combination by spreading these crisp-chewy chocolate-chip cookies with a rich, sweet-savory miso buttercream that’s flecked with minced lemon verbena.

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Ice Cream Bonbons

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Kendra Baker uses caramel ice cream in her bonbons, which have a silky chocolate shell and flaky sea salt on top.

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Salted Caramel Pie

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This supereasy pie is a caramel lovers' dream. The filling is sweetened condensed milk sprinkled lightly with sea salt and baked until thick and gooey, then chilled in a simple graham cracker crust.

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Salted Fudge Brownies

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Kate Krader has been making these fudgy, sweet-salty brownies since she was 10 years old. As a kid she used regular table salt; now she recommends a flaky sea salt like Maldon, because the flavor is less harsh and it melts so nicely into the batter, accentuating the chocolaty sweetness.

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Vanilla Bean Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce

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"I tried making this as an upside-down cake, which was a disaster, but then I realized I could just pour the caramel on top," Valerie Gordon says.

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Salted Shortbread Cookies

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Bacon-Bourbon Brownies with Pecans

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Kat Kinsman tops her rich brownies with bacon and pecans. To enhance the smoky flavor, she mixes some of the bacon fat into the batter.

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Chocolate Pots de Crème with Maple Caramel and Salt

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Pastry chef Michael Laiskonis serves this milk-chocolaty dessert in an eggshell with caramel foam; it's known as "the egg." It's just as good in ramekins, topped with a simple caramel sauce blended with maple syrup.

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Chocolate Wafers with Ginger, Fennel and Sea Salt

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Dark chocolate with a high cacao content is lower in sugar and higher in antioxidants than milk chocolate. For this ingenious snack, Grace Parisi coats wafer-thin crispbreads in dark chocolate so that they seem like candy bars studded with flaky Maldon sea salt, chewy crystallized ginger and candied fennel seeds.

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Cranberry-Pecan Bread Pudding with Bacon

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A good loaf of cranberry-nut bread from a bakery has so much flavor that there's no need to trick it up with lots of ingredients. As the pudding bakes, the bread becomes almost custardlike, with a crispy brown top.

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Dulce de Leche, Coconut and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars

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This is Grace Parisi's sophisticated version of magic bars, that chocolate-coconut bake-sale favorite. Browning the butter gives the crust a nutty flavor; cooking it in a metal baking dish makes it extra crisp. In a touch inspired by pastry chefs' favorite new ingredient, Grace adds bacon to the filling.

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Butterscotch Pots de Crème with Caramel Sauce

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"I have a lot of guys from Oaxaca in my kitchen, and they put salt on everything," says Travis Lett. "When I saw one of them add salt to this dessert, I thought, Hey, that's a great idea."

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Molten Chocolate Cake with Caramel Filling

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More decadent than molten chocolate cake: one filled with warm caramel, reveals F&W's Grace Parisi.

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Chocolate-Cayenne Cocktail Cookies

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Dorie Greenspan loves using Valrhona cocoa to make these spicy, unexpectedly tender cookies, flecked with flaky Maldon salt. "It's so rich and dark," she says.

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Chocolate-Almond Saltine Toffee

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Pastry chef Nicole Plue was intrigued by a recipe she discovered for matzo covered in toffee and chocolate. But she knew she could improve it by using crackers instead of matzo for a hit of salt. Now the saltines, slathered with buttery toffee and bittersweet chocolate, are a favorite on her petit four tray.

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1 of 17 Milk-Chocolate Tart with Pretzel Crust
2 of 17 Salted-Caramel Squares
3 of 17 Chocolate-Chip Cookies with Red Miso Buttercream
4 of 17 Ice Cream Bonbons
5 of 17 Salted Caramel Pie
6 of 17 Salted Fudge Brownies
7 of 17 Vanilla Bean Cake with Salted Caramel Sauce
8 of 17 Salted Shortbread Cookies
9 of 17 Bacon-Bourbon Brownies with Pecans
10 of 17 Chocolate Pots de Crème with Maple Caramel and Salt
11 of 17 Chocolate Wafers with Ginger, Fennel and Sea Salt
12 of 17 Cranberry-Pecan Bread Pudding with Bacon
13 of 17 Dulce de Leche, Coconut and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars
14 of 17 Butterscotch Pots de Crème with Caramel Sauce
15 of 17 Molten Chocolate Cake with Caramel Filling
16 of 17 Chocolate-Cayenne Cocktail Cookies
17 of 17 Chocolate-Almond Saltine Toffee

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