Best Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

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Drizzle or drench the Best Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce onto your favorite blondies, brownies, ice cream sundaes, apple desserts and cheesecakes.  Should I go on?  The possibilities to use this easy salted caramel sauce recipe are endless.

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What We Love About This Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce!

• This Best Home-made Salted Caramel Sauce is not that hard to make and you don’t even need to use a thermometer!
• It ONLY takes 5 ingredients to make this homemade salted caramel sauce and less than 10 minutes to make!
• To make, first, you have to cook the sugar until it liquifies and cooks to a deep amber color for about 5-7 minutes over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Then you whisk in the butter. (The mixture will bubble up.) Then carefully whisk in the  heavy cream and cook an extra minute.  Remove from heat and add your sea salt and vanilla extract.
• Once made, you will get the most amazing Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce you ever tasted!  You’ll think you died and gone to heaven!
• Gifting!  Fill some really cute jars  with your delicious salted caramel sauce!  These would make the most adorable gifts for anytime of the year!

5 Main Ingredients You Need 

• granulated sugar
• butter 
• heavy cream
• vanilla extract
• sea salt

How to Make the Best Salted Homemade Caramel Sauce Recipe

1. Heat sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly with a high heat resistant whisk, spatula or wooden spoon.
2. Sugar will form clumps and eventually melt into a thick deep, amber colored sauce as you continue to stir. Be careful not to burn or scorch.
3. Whisk while you add in the butter, be careful because the caramel will quickly bubble. Whisk until the butter is totally melted and combined about 2 minutes.
4. Remove from heat and slowly stream the cream into the caramel. (It may seize up and foam a bit!) Whisk it rapidly until smooth. Stir in the vanilla and sea salt.
5. Pour caramel in a glass jar or measuring cup and allow to cool.

Best Home-made Salted Caramel Sauce

Kim Lange

It ONLY takes 5 ingredients to make this home-made salted caramel sauce less than 10 minutes to make!

4 from 9 votes

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Prep Time 2 minutes mins

Cook Time 8 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Calories

Ingredients

  

• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter cut into cubes
• ½ cup heavy cream room temperature or microwave a few seconds
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

Instructions

 

• Heat sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly with a high heat resistant whisk, spatula or wooden spoon.
• Sugar will form clumps and eventually melt into a thick deep, amber colored sauce as you continue to stir. Be careful not to burn or scorch.
• Whisk while you add in the butter, be careful because the caramel will quickly bubble. Whisk until the butter is totally melted and combined about 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and slowly stream the cream into the caramel. (It may seize up and foam a bit!) Whisk it rapidly until smooth. Stir in the vanilla and sea salt.
• Pour caramel in a glass jar or measuring cup and allow to cool.

Notes

Only make single batches of caramel, because of the sugar melting unevenly.
Store caramel for up to a month in the refrigerator.
Warm the caramel up for a few seconds before using in a recipe.
Caramel can be at room temperature for a day if you're gifting.

Keyword caramel, salted caramel, sauce

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