Caramel Sauce – A Beautiful Mess

This caramel sauce recipe is straightforward with simply 5 components and it solely takes about 20 minutes to make! If you’d like salted caramel sauce, you merely add slightly sea salt on the finish. Yum!

I really like this selfmade caramel sauce on all types of issues, like drizzled over ice cream or on prime of a caramel macchiato. Regardless of in case you use this for desserts, drinks or in your subsequent baking mission, you’ll love this straightforward caramel sauce recipe.

Associated: Verify our caramel apples publish for the best way to make the perfect caramel coating for issues like apples. This recipe is extra of a pourable sauce.

Elements

• Granulated white sugar
• Brown sugar
• Water
• Unsalted butter
• Heavy whipping cream

And flaky sea salt if you need salted caramel sauce.

Instructions

In a medium pot or sauce pan, mix the sugar, brown sugar and water. Cook dinner over medium warmth till the sugar dissolves, begins to bubble then turns an amber brown. This may increasingly take 5-7 minutes relying on how scorching you could have your temperature turned to. It’s finest simply to keep watch over it so it doesn’t get too darkish or burnt. 

Throughout this course of don’t stir the combination. If wanted, you possibly can swirl the pan, however keep away from stirring as splashing the combination up the edges of the (cool) pan may cause the sugar to crystalize.

As soon as it turns that deep amber brown, add within the remaining components. Watch out as you do as a result of the combination will bubble.

Proceed to prepare dinner over medium warmth for a further 3-4 minutes.

Enable the combination to chill for 10-Quarter-hour earlier than storing.

Do I want a sweet thermometer?

No, however in case you have one, it does assist! You may make caramel sauce by visible cues (the deepening amber coloration) and scent (it’s going to begin to scent bitter and burnt when it’s cooked too lengthy).

That being stated, in case you do already personal a sweet thermometer, use it! The caramel sauce ought to attain round 220°F to 230°F (round 110°C). Some sweet thermometers have this marked as “delicate ball” stage and also you need to keep away from heating the sugar to “onerous ball” stage as this can make a chewy, onerous sweet versus a pourable sauce.

Why did my caramel sauce prove grainy?

In case your caramel sauce is grainy, your sugar has doubtless crystalized. This occurs in case you stir and even swirl the pan an excessive amount of throughout cooking, inflicting the sugar to coat the edges of the pot the place it then cools.

To repair this, add a pair tablespoons of water to the sauce and warmth to dissolve the crystals.

The right way to retailer caramel sauce

This sauce recipe does have to be saved within the fridge after it’s made (it incorporates dairy). You may retailer it in an hermetic container within the fridge for at the least 2 weeks or for much longer in case you select to freeze it.

Caramel sauce will harden when refrigerated, so it’s finest to retailer in a microwave-safe container so you possibly can simply soften/reheat it. You may as well do that on the stovetop in case you don’t need to use a microwave.

Why did my caramel sauce harden?

Seemingly your sugar received too scorching, and reached previous 240°F or “onerous ball” stage. Once more, when you don’t completely have to make use of a sweet thermometer for this recipe, it might probably assist to keep away from heating the sugar an excessive amount of.

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