Mini Murray River Salted Caramel & Macadamia Sticks

What is it?

The salt is the specific thing here. Murray River salt flakes are harvested from mineral-rich saline groundwater in the Murray Basin and come out pale pink and flat rather than cubic, which means they dissolve faster and land as a sharper burst than table salt would. They go into the caramel sauce, which is then whipped through caramel flavoured ice cream, so the salt sits in the ribbon rather than being sprinkled over the top. Cream is at 20% and macadamias at 5%, set into a milk chocolate shell. Macadamia is the right nut for this. It's native to Australia, high in fat and mild enough not to fight the caramel, where a more assertive nut would. At mini size the chocolate and nut shell dominates rather more than it does on the full-size stick.