Vegan Chocolate Salted Caramel Tarts

Gluten-Free & Homemade 2-Ingredient Caramel

These Vegan Chocolate Salted Caramel Tarts are dairy-free, gluten-free, refined sugar-free and can be made oil-free. They consist of a raw crust, made of nuts and dates, some homemade caramel sauce and a creamy chocolate layer. 

The caramel sauce is a healthier version of regular caramel and is quick and easy to make since it consists of only 2-ingredients.

It's also no-bake recipe which means that no oven is required. Equipment wise you'll only need a (fairly strong) food processor to prepare this recipe. 

 

Fancy More Caramel? Check out the Following Recipes:

• Healthy Vegan Salted Caramel Smoothie
• Vegan Salted Caramel Chia Pudding

How to Make These Vegan Chocolate Salted Caramel Tarts

For making this recipe, you'll need a (fairly strong) food processor. Since this is not a traditional pie but rather includes a lot of wholefood ingredients, a strong food processor is needed to ensure that ingredients like buckwheat groats for instance can be ground. 

To prepare the crust, put your buckwheat grouts into your food processor and blend until most of them are crushed.

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Then add all the other crust ingredients blend until a sticky mass forms. This might take a couple of minutes- don't forget to scrape down the sides every now and then. 

In case your dates are not soft,  soak them in very hot water for about 10 minutes beforehead. Otherwise they will give your food processor a very hard time.

Once the crust is ready, line a cake tin (mine was about 25cm) with parchment paper or grease it with oil. Then press the crust into the tin using your fingers or a spoon/ spatula. Don't forget to also include the sides of tin. 

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Now it's time to prepare your caramel layer. Simply whisk together maple syrup and peanut butter and keep stirring until the mass is well combined and the texture resembles that of caramel. Then spoon about 1,5 tablespoon into each tart. 

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For our third and final chocolate ganache, heat chocolate and coconut cream in a sauce pan, stirring with a whisk until fully melted and combined. Pour chocolate layer onto caramel layer and place it in the fridge to set for 4+ hours or overnight.

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2-Ingredient Caramel Sauce

I created two types of this caramel sauce: A thicker, creamier version (as used in this recipe) and a thinner, runnier version. Find the full recipe of the caramel sauce here.

Ingredient & Substitution Notes

 

• Buckwheat Groats: These add some crunchyness to the crust. Make sure to blend them in your food processor first before adding any other ingredients.

• Medjool Dates: This recipe calls for Medjool dates which are my absolute favourite. However, they are not always easy to find and can also be quite expensive. Alternatively, you could also simply use “normal” small ones. Make sure however, that they are soft enough. If they aren’t, soak them in hot water for about 10 minutes beforehead. Otherwise they might give your food processor a very hard time. Also you might need about double the amount since they are much smaller. 

• Peanut butter: For the caramel to work, use  smooth, unsweetened peanut butter without any additives like oil. If you prefer using sweetened peanut butter you might need less maple syrup. 

• Cacao Powder: I use non-sweetened cacao powder for this recipe. 

• Maple Syrup: If you don't care about this recipe not being vegan you could also use honey instead.

• Coconut cream: Make sure to put your coconut milk in the fridge the evening/day before you want to make this recipe. Coconut milk, when put in the fridge, separates into two layers: a solid cream at the top and liquid water at the bottom. For this recipe to work, it is really important that you only use the white, solid part of the coconut milk. It only remains at the top of the tin if the milk is cool enough. Secondly, it is really important that your coconut milk is a full-fat milk and has a high content of coconut extract, otherwise there won’t be a lot of cream on top. I prefer using a coconut milk that contains 90% coconut extract, whereas I also tried using a 55% version and it didn’t work. It might take some time to find an appropriate brand but it’s absolutely worth it. 

• Chocolate: In order to keep this cake vegan I used vegan dark chocolate. However, you could use any chocolate of your choice.

Other No-Bake Recipes You Might Like

• • Healthy(ish) Vegan Rocky Road Bars
  • No Bake Vegan Chocolate Peanutbutter Pie
  • Macademia Cranberry White Chocolate Tart
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