The most delicious, easy homemade salted caramel sauce! This caramel is great served over ice cream, cake, pie, cookies, brownies and so much more! All you need to make this recipe is 4 ingredients and 10 minutes in the kitchen. Homemade caramel sauce is quick and simple to make at home, and it’ll taste way better than storebought caramel. Make it with me!
Homemade Caramel Sauce
We all know that things tend to taste better when we make them from scratch. Caramel sauce is no exception.
This homemade salted caramel sauce is buttery, creamy, and delicious! Plus, it only takes about 10 minutes to make at home.
Trust me, it’s worth it to make your own caramel sauce from scratch! Let me tell you how to make it!
What You’ll Need
You only need 4 ingredients to make this caramel sauce at home!
granulated sugar
salted butter
heavy cream
salt
I do recommend using salted butter in this recipe. Since we are making a salted caramel, I like having the salt in the butter and adding additional salt to the sauce.
If you don’t want to make this caramel salted, I would still recommend using salted butter. You can omit the additional teaspoon of salt for a classic caramel sauce.
What Salt Should I Use For Salted Caramel Sauce?
For this recipe, table salt works just fine! The salt is adding flavor to the sauce, and it dissolves when we add it to the hot caramel.
If you want to use flaky sea salt, you definitely can! But, don’t feel like you need to go out and buy sea salt just to make this recipe.
I prefer to save my flaky sea salt as a finishing salt rather than adding it to a recipe where it’ll melt down.
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Salted Caramel Sauce
The most delicious salted caramel sauce! Perfect for topping ice cream, cake, brownies, cookies, pie, and so much more!
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 6 Tablespoons salted butter, room temperature cut up into 6 pieces
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Heat granulated sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly with a rubber spatula or spoon. Sugar will form clumps and eventually melt into a thick brown, amber-colored liquid as you continue to stir. Be careful not to burn.
- Once sugar is completely melted, immediately add the butter. Be careful in this step because the caramel will bubble rapidly when the butter is added.
- Whisk the butter into the caramel until it is completely melted, about 2 minutes.
- Very slowly drizzle in 1/2 cup of heavy cream while stirring. Since the heavy cream is colder than the caramel, the mixture will rapidly bubble when added. Allow the mixture to boil for 1 minute.
- Remove from heat and stir in 1 teaspoon of salt. Allow caramel to cool down before using it. Caramel will thicken as it cools.
- Cover tightly and store for up to 1 month in the refrigerator. Caramel solidifies in the refrigerator. Reheat in the microwave or on the stove to desired consistency.
Notes
Table sauce works great for this recipe, but you can also use flaky sea salt if you have it!
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