how to make caramel sauce
A delicious creamy sweet warm flavored buttery sauce, great to drizzle over desserts, drinks to use as a filling in cakes, cupcakes, poured over scones, cookies and other sweets like donuts.
Servings: 1 1/2 cups
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tbsp salted butter salted or unsalted (use 1/8 tsp salt if using unsalted butter)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a heavy bottom medium saucepan, pour in sugar in an even flat layer.
- Add the water, do not stir the mixture.
- Heat the mixture over medium heat for about 10 minutes, until it's an amber color.
- Remove the pan from the heat site with a wooden spoon and pour in the heavy cream until smooth, it"ll bubble up.
- Next, add the butter. while continually stirring until the caramel is smooth.
- Add in the vanilla and mix well.
- If you want "salted caramel' add an additional teaspoon of salt and stir well to combine.
- Allow the caramel to cool completely.
- Pour into a jar, bottle, or container.
- Use within 12 hours or refrigerate.
- You can slowly heat it to smooth it out so it'll pour nicely or use it cold.