Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

Our homemade salted caramel sauce is divine! Eat it alone, with apples, over your pancakes or waffles, drizzle it on cakes or cupcakes, or fill macarons with this deliciousness. Seriously, it’s that amazing.

Making caramel at home might sound a little intimidating, but we promise it’s the easiest thing and no special tools are required. And once you make this homemade salted caramel sauce you will never want to purchase it again.

Ingredients:

Sugar, water, heavy whipping cream, butter and vanilla extract(not pictured). That’s it! So simple.

How to make homemade salted caramel sauce:

1. Heat granulated sugar and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat.
2. Let the sugar and water come to a simmer. At this time resist the urge to mix the water and sugar while it’s boiling. Instead, you can gently swirl the pan over the heat.
3. After 5-6 minutes, the syrup will start to change color around the edge of the saucepan.
4. Continue to let the syrup boil until it turns a beautiful light brown color. Once the syrup becomes a golden brown color, turn the heat off. Don’t let your syrup get any darker, or your caramel well burned and taste bitter.
5. Carefully pour in the heavy cream and stir with a whisk. The mixture will bubble violently, so please be careful while mixing.
6. Once the caramel stops bubbling, add the butter and whisk until the butter is melted. Now, add the vanilla extract and a pinch of sea salt. Mix all the ingredients one more time.
7. Now, pour the caramel sauce into a glass container to cool completely before using it. If you want the caramel to thicken up, cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for about 1-2 hours.

WARNING! This stuff is AMAZING. I couldn’t keep my children away from it. Now, drizzle this liquid gold on all your favorite treats to make them extra special. Or pack it up and gift it during the holidays to all your family and friends.

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Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

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By Kalu Lor – Serves: Makes about 3 cups

Prep Time: 5 Minutes – Cooking Time: 10 minutes – Total Time: 15 minutes

Rich, buttery, sweet, and salty describes this liquid gold. Our homemade salted caramel sauce is amazingly simple to make and it's a great addition to most desserts.

Ingredients

• 1 cups of granulated sugar
• 1/4 cup of water
• 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream
• 4 TBSP of unsalted butter cut into small cubes
• 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract
• A pinch of sea salt

Instructions

1

Heat granulated sugar and water in a medium saucepan over medium heat.

2

Let the sugar and water come to a simmer. At this time resist the urge to mix the water and sugar while it's boiling. Instead, you can gently swirl the pan over the heat.

3

After 5-6 minutes the syrup will start to change color around the edge of the saucepan.

4

Continue to let the syrup boil until it turns a beautiful light brown color. Once the syrup becomes a golden brown color turn the heat off. Don't let your syrup get any darker, or your caramel well burned and taste bitter.

5

Carefully Pour in the heavy cream and stir with a whisk. The mixture will bubble violently, so please be careful while mixing.

6

Once the caramel stops bubbling add the butter and whisk until the butter has melted.

7

Now add vanilla extract and a pinch of sea salt. Mix that all together and it's done.

8

Now pour the caramel sauce into a glass container to cool completely before eating it. If you want the caramel to thicken up cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for about 1-2 hours. If the sauce is too thick just microwave for about 10-15 seconds.

Notes

This caramel sauce needs to be refrigerated after use and will last up to 2 weeks in the fridge.