Caramel Sauce – A Stunning Mess

This caramel sauce recipe is easy with simply 5 substances 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 like this selfmade caramel sauce on all types of issues, like drizzled over ice cream or on high of a caramel macchiato. Regardless of in the event you use this for desserts, drinks or in your subsequent baking venture, you’ll love this simple caramel sauce recipe.

Associated: Examine our caramel apples put up for the way to make the most effective 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. Prepare 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 sizzling you have got your temperature turned to. It’s greatest simply to control it so it doesn’t get too darkish or burnt. 

Throughout this course of don’t stir the combination. If wanted, you may 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 substances. Watch out as you do as a result of the combination will bubble.

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

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

Do I would like a sweet thermometer?

No, however when you’ve got one, it does assist! You can also make caramel sauce by visible cues (the deepening amber shade) and scent (it can begin to scent bitter and burnt when it’s cooked too lengthy).

That being mentioned, in the event 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 “tender ball” stage and also you need to keep away from heating the sugar to “laborious ball” stage as it will make a chewy, laborious sweet versus a pourable sauce.

Why did my caramel sauce prove grainy?

In case your caramel sauce is grainy, your sugar has probably crystalized. This occurs in the event 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 must be saved within the fridge after it’s made (it comprises dairy). You may retailer it in an hermetic container within the fridge for a minimum of 2 weeks or for much longer in the event you select to freeze it.

Caramel sauce will harden when refrigerated, so it’s greatest to retailer in a microwave-safe container so you may simply soften/reheat it. It’s also possible to do that on the stovetop in the event you don’t need to use a microwave.

Why did my caramel sauce harden?

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

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