Home-made Caramel Sauce

Caramel sauce is sooooo perfect for ice cream, brownies, or any other desserts! Sure, you can buy it from the store, but homemade Caramel Sauce tastes a lot better and is simple to make.

It only takes few ingredients and little time to make a home-made caramel, but making caramel can seem hard and intimidating, right? – I promise you it’s not! Just follow the recipe, and be patient.

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Basic Ingredients You’ll Need to Make a Homemade Caramel Sauce:

1. Sugar
2. Water
3. Heavy cream
4. Butter
5. Salt or Vanilla (optional)

Caramel Tips!

• Don’t use a thin pot! Thin pots heat unevenly. This can cause portions of the sugar to burn before the rest of it has melted.
• Use a light-colored pot so you’ll easily notice the caramel’s precise color changes.
• It is important to use a whisk, a wooden spoon or a heat-resistant silicone spoon to make the sauce.
• Resist the urge to stir! Stirring the mixture can cause crystallization and grittiness. Once the mixture boils, don’t stir or swirl the mixture.
• As the sugar begins to color, and you have a little sugar crystallization on the sides. Don’t worry! you don’t need to start over. Just break the crystallizes sugar with a small spoon and bring it to center, it will melt again. Just don’t stir it.
• After your sugar has reach your desired light amber color, immediately remove the caramel from heat, and add the heavy cream and mix until smooth. The caramel will continue to cook even after you remove it from heat, so make sure there’s no delay in adding the cream.
• Even if you want salted caramel sauce, I recommend using unsalted butter. This gives you better control over the saltiness to your caramel. For salted caramel sauce, I like to add ½ – ¾ teaspoon of salt.

Home-made Caramel Sauce

Caramel sauce is sooooo perfect for ice cream, brownies, or any other desserts! Sure, you can buy it from the store, but homemade Caramel Sauce tastes a lot better and is simple to make.

It only takes few ingredients and little time to make a home-made caramel, but making caramel can seem hard and intimidating, right? - I promise you it’s not! Just follow the recipe, and be patient.

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Ingredients

• 200g (1 cup) sugar60g
• 2 tablespoons water
• 120g (1/2 cup) heavy cream
• 2/3 stick unsalted butter
• 1/2 tsp salt (optional)

Instructions

In a medium saucepan, heat sugar and water over medium-high heat, being careful not to splash sides of pan. Bring the mixture to boil, and don’t stir the mixture at all once it boils, it’ll cause crystallization and grittiness.

Cook the sugar until desired light amber color is reached or a candy thermometer reaches 330°F (166°C).

After your sugar has caramelized, immediately remove the caramel from heat, and add the heavy cream and mix until smooth. The caramel will continue to cook even after you remove it from heat, so make sure there’s no delay in adding the cream.

Add butter, a few pieces at a time, mix until melted and smoothly incorporated. And now you can add salt, vanilla, or whatever mix-ins your caramel calls for. Then let cool completely.

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