About us

We're a small family run business based in Broxburn. Tom is a former sous chef in a michelin-starred restaurant, with a penchant for peanuts, and Gemma is a sweet toothed ideas girl who dreams up delicious desserts and sweet treats. Our baby daughter, "Little Peanut", is a future whizz-kid chef and peanut dessert aficionado!

Peanut Caramel is our beloved sweet peanut spread, to be used as an ingredient in countless cakes and desserts.

The story so far

Tom has always been a big fan of millionaire's shortbread. He was experimenting with a peanut flavoured version one day and realised that the peanut-loaded caramel filling was so good that it could be sold as a product in its own right. He made bulk batches of it and packaged it into jars, then his hot-shot graphic designer sister Claire did a design for the labels and Peanut Caramel was born.

He was working as a chef at the time, and it will come as little surprise to any readers who know the typical hours of a chef that he didn't have much spare time to work on a side project such as this. Tom had to shelve the Peanut Caramel project for the time being.

That was over 10 years ago... fast forward to 2024 and Peanut Caramel is back! It has a revamped classy new label design (thanks Claire), an improved recipe and an accompanying website with a growing library of delicious dessert recipes to make with it, including peanut caramel cheesecake, peanut caramel popcorn, peanut caramel and jam crème brûlée and more.

We would love to hear how you make use of Peanut Caramel in your kitchen. It's really versatile as an ingredient in many desserts and sweet things - but absolutely no judgement if you just eat it straight from the jar! We hope you love it as much as we do.

Why Peanut Caramel is so appealing

Peanut butter is hugely popular. It's one of the most loved food products in the world, and it's almost always paired with something sweet. There's a reason why the peanut butter and jam sandwich is such an all-time classic: the sweetness of the jam cuts through the heavy richness of the peanut butter and brings everything into balance, creating an irresistible combination.

Peanut Caramel solves a problem for the sweet-toothed, peanut loving foodie. They love the rich taste of peanut butter, but they want to easily incorporate it into desserts, cakes, and cookies. Peanut caramel makes this very easy. For example, one of the best and easiest things to make with it is an effortless sweet peanut custard: simply bring a saucepan of cream to the boil, then whisk in some peanut caramel until smooth. Simple!

We roast the peanuts until they're golden. This gives the Peanut Caramel a deep, rich flavour.