Chocolate Caramel!

Ok, I've decided to start posting things I'm making in school on here because some of the recipes are to DIE for! And I'm tired of keeping all these yummy recipes cooped up! Today (Valentine's Day <3) we made chocolate caramels. I wasn't sure if I was going to like them, but after they were finished, and I had a to-go box fill to the top with them, I couldn't stop eating them! They were really easy to make and something about them makes me think "Oreos.". So here's the recipe and hopefully you like them just as much as I do!

Chef Rob Hudson's Granny's recipe- Chocolate Caramels (Apparently at our school the head chef's grandma is one heck of a candy maker! Haha!)

3 1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 light corn syrup
2 Tbsp cocoa
2 cups cream
1 cup butter
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla

1. Cook sugar, syrup, cream, salt, and cocoa together until it forms a soft ball in cold water (or until soft ball stage-240°F). They are supposed to be pretty chewy in the end so don't over cook them!
2. Remove from heat and add vanilla and butter.
3. Place in a well buttered pan to cool.
4. Once cool, cut into squares. We put our caramels in the freezer to cool faster, but they were impossible to cut after that because they froze ha! So we just broke it into pieces.

TA-DA! Yummy chocolate caramels :) There's just something so irresistible about chewy, buttery, and Oreo like caramels!