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This homemade salted caramel sauce is easy to make in just ten minutes with simple ingredients and no special equipment. It’s perfect for topping brownies, ice cream, cookies, or whatever other sweet treats may cross your mind.
Is there anything better than the mixture of salty and sweet? If you answered no, then you’re going to love this easy recipe for salted caramel sauce. It only takes four ingredients, doesn’t require a candy thermometer, and beats anything you will find at the store.
Tips For Making Salted Caramel Sauce
- Stay by the stove. This trick to getting this caramel sauce right is consistent stirring and keeping an eye on it so it doesn’t overcook.
- Get your ingredients ready ahead of time. I am terrible at mise en place, which is a French phrase for “everything in its place,” but I really recommend it for this recipe. Getting everything together before you start will keep you from stepping away from your caramel sauce while it’s cooking.
- Stir in the butter as soon as the sugar is finished melting, which should only take a few minutes.
How To Use Salted Caramel Sauce
- Make these Pumpkin Spice Cakes and use the sauce on top
- Use as a topping on ice cream sundaes
- Drizzle over cookies
- Add it to your favorite cheesecake recipe
- Use as a dip for fresh apples
- Drizzle over Muffins
- Make these Fudgy Dark Chocolate Brownie with Salted Caramel Sauce
- Add some to a slice of fresh zucchini bread
- Drizzle over roasted pears
- Use it as a topping for this carrot and date olive oil cake
- Make salted caramel and chocolate cupcakes
- Spread over a warm piece of sourdough toast or Irish soda bread
Storing
Your salted caramel sauce is good in the fridge for up to two weeks. It fits nicely in an 8oz mason jar, and would even make a cute gift with a homemade tag.
How To Make Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup granulated sugar
6 tbsp salted butter, cut into cubes
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, cook sugar over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula. The sugar will first start to clump together, before it begins to melt into a liquid that is a light-amber color.
- Once the sugar is all melted, stir in the cubes of butter. The caramel will start to bubble up once the butter is added in. Continue to stir consistently until the butter is completely melted.
- Next, slowly pour in the heavy whipping cream, stirring consistently until combined. The caramel will once again bubble up once the cream is added in, so be careful.
- Once the cream is incorporated, let the caramel boil for 1 minute without stirring, then remove it from the heat.
- Let the caramel cool to room temperate before serving. It will thicken as it cools. It will keep for up to two week in the refrigerator.
Recipe from House of Nash Eats
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The Perfect Cranberry Sauce
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\\"Thinking is messy. Writing is thinking turned inside out.\\"
This is something my English professor said in a lecture a couple of weeks ago and I haven\'t been able to get it out of my mind because it\'s basically my life. Things don\'t ever go according to plan. I am always reading more than one book at a time, and can\'t write chronologically to save my life.
I am a messy writer
and thinker
and reader
and lifer
I sometimes get frustrated when I look at my manuscript and I\'ve got chapters 1,2,3,4, and then it skips to 10. Or when the essay I\'m working on is missing its second body paragraph but it has a damn good conclusion. But that\'s just how I function.
I may complain about it, and I will continue to attempt to \\"get organized\\" with the help of my bullet journal, but really, I like the mess. It keeps things interesting, and I\'m learning to accept the madness as part of my process. And when those missing chapters get filled in, it\'s always exciting.
In other news, I\'ve been collecting writing craft books and would love all of your recommendations. What are some of your favorites and must-haves?")
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This is a late post, but we are halfway through September, so I thought I\'d check-in.
To be honest, my brain is feeling extra fickle this week. Kind of like that feeling where you keep opening the fridge because you want something, but you don\'t know what that something is, so you end up eating nothing at all. Now instead of food, apply that to everything. I start classes next week, so I think my head is just heavy with anticipation, and everything feels busy. I keep getting distracted by the silliest things, both externally and internally. Smoke from the west coast fires has taken over the area for a week now, so I have a perpetual headache, and the kids are climbing the walls because they can\'t go outside. I also hoped to be farther along in my WIP than I am at this point, but instead, I\'ve rewritten the same chapter I don\'t know how many times because \\"something is just not right.\\"
If you\'re having a rough week, I just wanted to say that I see you, and I feel you. The optimist in me wants to say that this too will pass, but also, it\'s okay to be frustrated, and it\'s okay to talk about.")
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Our world here is a bit hazy this week. There is smoke in the air from the fires burning through the west coast. My nose and my throat burn, and my heart hurts for the trees and the animals and the people who have all been affected. I\'m hoping for rain and cold air, but it\'s hotter today than it was yesterday, and tomorrow is it\'s only going to get hotter 😭. I\'d very much like it to be October already.
Writing update: I only got 20 minutes in yesterday. I kinda cheated on my tv ban last night 😂 To be fair, it was brother\'s birthday so we watched a movie, which isn\'t technically \\"tv.\\" Anyway, we watched #Alive and it was really good, so if you\'re into zombie movies, I highly recommend it.")
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