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    Home » Favorite Flavors & Ingredients » Caramel

    Best Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

    Published: Jul 24, 2016 · by Kim Lange · This post may contain affiliate links ·

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    Best Home-made Salted Caramel Sauce

    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. (I really like those odds, don't you?) 

    Best Home-made Salted Caramel Sauce

    'Caramel' is such a lovely word in our vocabulary, wouldn't you agree?

    Boy, does it ever taste amazing when you make a buttery, rich, sweet sauce that you can pour over No Churn Vanilla Bean Ice Cream, White Chocolate Brownies or these Salted Caramel Chip Apple Blondies.  Just indulge and make the world go away for a few minutes!

    Check out these Salted Caramel White Chocolate Cookies for another version of salted caramel yumminess!

    What We Love About This Home-Made 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 home-made 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 Home-made 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!

    Best Home-made Salted Caramel Sauce

    5 Main Ingredients You Need 

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

    How to Make the Best Salted 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
    I don't know what it is about sea salt in caramel but it's so addicting!
    Now...make this gooey decadent salted caramel sauce recipe and you'll see what I mean!!  Best Home-made Salted Caramel Sauce!

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    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!
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    Prep Time 2 mins
    Cook Time 8 mins
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • 6 tablespoons butter cut into cubes
    • ½ cup heavy cream
    • 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.
    Tried This Recipe?Let us know how it was by commenting below!
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    Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

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    1. Christine says

      December 11, 2019 at 1:20 pm

      How many jars will this fill?

    2. Kim Lange says

      December 04, 2018 at 8:25 am

      Hi Mikayla! Up to a month.

    3. Nan says

      December 03, 2018 at 10:58 pm

      In the actual recipe it says it keeps up to a months in the refrigerator but the author says 2 weeks. I wonder which it is?

    4. Kelly @ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats says

      July 03, 2017 at 2:51 pm

      Mmmm. I would drizzle this on EVERYTHING!! Xoxo

    5. ChocolaTess says

      May 19, 2017 at 11:33 pm

      OMGoodness that sounds so delicious Betty!! Yum! Have a wonderful weekend!! <3

    6. betty b says

      May 19, 2017 at 10:45 pm

      Ok, thank you so much for the clarification. I just made it and it is delicious!!! I poured some in my iced coffee ice cream float!

    7. ChocolaTess says

      May 19, 2017 at 5:24 pm

      Hi Betty, it's the way the recipe is written that is right. I got ahead of myself in my description on post and I thank you for catching that. Hope you enjoy! It's really yummy!!

    8. betty b says

      May 19, 2017 at 4:08 pm

      hi there! on the blog page you say to add the cream and THEN you add the butter. but then on the actual recipe, you say to add the butter and then remove from heat and add the cream. Just wanted to get clarification so I do it right. Thank you!

    9. ChocolaTess says

      October 09, 2016 at 9:25 am

      Hi Mikayla, about 2 weeks in the fridge, The sauce can also be frozen in freezer proof containers for up to 3 months. Thaw the sauce overnight in the fridge before using. 🙂

    10. Mikayla says

      October 09, 2016 at 4:15 am

      How long will this keep for?

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