The BEST Caramel Sauce
This delicious Caramel Sauce is so easy to make and tastes about a million times better than anything you can buy at the store! It's such a versatile ingredient, you'll find yourself making it year round because caramel sauce makes everything better!
Servings 32
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 tablespoons water
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt or sea salt optional if you want salted caramel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract optional
Instructions
- Add sugar and water to a medium, heavy duty sauce pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the sugar dissolves (3 to 5 minutes).
- Turn the heat to high and bring to a boil.
- Don't stir the caramel sauce at this point. Just gently swirl the mixture around the pan occasionally and brush down the sides of the pan with a wet silicone brush as needed to keep sugar crystals from forming.
- Continue swirling and cooking until the mixture turns deep amber in color (6 to 9 minutes).
- Remove from heat. Stir in the cream, butter, and salt until the butter has melted and the caramel is smooth. Be careful because the mixture will bubble up.
- Let caramel sauce cool for 15 minutes in the sauce pan before pouring into a large glass jar for storage.
- Keep refrigerated for up to 1 month.
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Notes
Recipe can be doubled.
OPTIONAL Add one tablespoon of corn syrup in with the sugar and water to help prevent crystals from forming while cooking the sugar.