This is an easy recipe on how to make Homemade Caramel Sauce from scratch, using just 4 simple ingredients: sugar, butter, heavy cream, and salt.
There is no reason to buy a premade caramel sauce in the store when you can make it at home in just 15 minutes! All you need are 4 simple ingredients (granulated sugar, unsalted butter, heavy cream, and salt) and your creamy homemade caramel sauce is ready!
I use this Caramel Sauce as one of the main ingredients in my Cupcakes with Caramel and Twix Thumbprint Cookies.
You also can use it with One Bowl Brownies, Apple Pie, Apple Coffee Cake, and many other desserts.
How to make Homemade Caramel Sauce
There are two things you need to make caramel, a sauce pan with heavy bottom (so the caramel won’t burn) and a heat resistant spatula (so it won’t melt).
Everything else is quite easy.
Put granulated sugar in a sauce pan and heat it over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes, constantly stirring. The sugar will start melting and form clumps, which will turn into amber/brown liquid.
When the sugar is completely melted, add cubed butter and stir. At this point the mixture will start to bubble. Stir for a couple of minutes until the butter is melted. First, it will look like the sugar and butter are separated, there is nothing wrong with that.
Gradually add heavy cream and stir. It will bubble again.
Stir for another minute, then remove from the heat and add salt.
I prefer to add ½ teaspoon salt first, let the caramel to cool off a bit, taste, and add more salt if needed.
First, the caramel will be quite runny but it will get thicker after it cools off.
When the caramel sauce is completely cooled off, transfer it to a mason jar or an air tight container and refrigerate.
MORE DESSERT RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE:
- Cupcakes with Caramel
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- Chocolate Bourbon Truffles
- Chocolate Mousse Pie
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- Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- Mini Cheesecakes with Blueberry Sauce
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- Mini Blueberry Hand Pies
- Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake
- Kahlua Cupcakes
Homemade Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter cut in pieces
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Put 1 cup granulated sugar in a sauce pan and heat it over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes, constantly stirring. The sugar will start melting and form clumps, which will turn into amber/brown liquid.
- When the sugar is completely melted, add 6 tbsp cubed butter and stir. At this point the mixture will start to bubble. Stir for a couple of minutes until the butter is melted. First, it will look like the sugar and butter are separated, there is nothing wrong with that.
- Gradually add ½ cup heavy cream and stir. It will bubble again.
- Stir for another minute, then remove from the heat and add salt.
- I prefer to add ½ teaspoon salt first, let the caramel to cool off a bit, taste, and add more salt if needed.
- First, the caramel will be quite runny but it will get thicker after it cools off.
- When the caramel sauce is completely cooled off, transfer it to a mason jar or an air tight container and refrigerate.
The best caramel sauce ever! Everyone loves it. Great over cheesecake, carrot cake, apple pie, ice cream or apples & nuts. I only use 1/4 tsp salt as I find it’s enough.
I have made this several times and delicious every time! So I thought I would try it with monk fruit (so nourished). It taste good but didn’t thicken up like regular sugar. Any ideas how to change the recipe for sugar free? Oh and the color was yellow as the monk fruit didn’t change to amber.
Has anyone tried making a double batch?
Or do you recommend just making it twice….?
How long does this sauce last after refrigerating
When does it go out of date ??
AFTER stiring in cream very soon it starts to stick to spatcula an some stick to bottom of pan. please tell how to solve this problem as the caramel is very good?
It came out great, I even added 1 tsp of vanilla!
Hello! At what step do I remove the pan from heat?
Hi what can I substitute the heavy cream with
Hi, unfortunately, you can’t substitute heavy cream with anything else in this recipe. It won’t work…
Hello I just wanted to say i used half and half and my Carmel came out amazing thank you for the recipe and easy to follow instructions
I used some coffee creamer and whipped cream instead and it came out amazing !
This caramel sauce is so luscious and incredible! Our go-to from now on!
Homemade is the best! I love caramel sauce, love using in various recipes.
This was perfect to put on top of my bourbon butterscotch budino. I loved it.
This homemade caramel is so simple and so delicious .I will never buy a jar of caramel again now that I can make it myself.
So simple and so delicious. I served this caramel sauce with vanilla ice-cream. heavenly!
Nothing beats a homemade caramel sauce and this one is really tasty and surprisingly easy to make! We’ll definitely make it again when we run out.
This was so simple to make and it was very tasty. I will make it again.