How to Cook Yummy Simple Caramel Sauce

Simple Caramel Sauce. This is a rich, sweet caramel sauce that can be made at the last minute that is great on bread pudding, gingerbread, apple pie, chopped apples, ice cream, and anything else you want to put it on. For an easy go-to caramel sauce, try Ree Drummond's recipe, perfect over ice cream or pie, from The Pioneer Woman on Food Network. How to make easy homemade caramel sauce.

Oh-So-Easy Caramel Sauce "This is a rich, sweet caramel sauce that can be made at the last minute." - BARB MAXWELL. I'll drown my disbelief in a jar of this caramel sauce. It's so darn good it eases the pain of time flying by. You can cook Simple Caramel Sauce using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Simple Caramel Sauce

1. It's of salted butter, cut into pieces.
2. Prepare of packed light brown sugar.
3. Prepare of plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream.
4. You need of vanilla extract.
5. You need of Option fr salted caramel sauce.
6. It's of …teaspoon sea salt.
7. Prepare of `.

Last year I shared this Easy Caramel Sauce made with brown sugar with you and this year I'm taking it up a notch! This caramel sauce has a lovely rich flavor to it. Let's say if I wanted to make caramel I got it spot on but as a sauce - no chance! It's so stiff and thick and sticks to your teeth, impossible to use as a pouring sauce.

Simple Caramel Sauce instructions

1. Combine butter, sugar and cream in a saucepan, cook over medium low heat stirring until melted.
2. Cook at a simmer stirring only once or twice until the sauce is smooth, simmer 4 minutes, sauce will be thin, don't be tempted to cook it longer it thickens as it cools and if overcooked will not be pourable when it's cooled..
3. Stir in vanilla. If your making the salted caramel option add the salt now and cool compleatly.
4. Use as a dessert save on ice cream or fruit. Use in Cake, cupcake, brownie, pie or torte recipes. Add to frostings or whipped cream or use as a finishing drizzle.
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Following the recipe precisely resulted in a butterscotch sauce more than a Caramel sauce- likely due to the use of brown sugar and butter. For a more caramely tasting sauce, I'd suggest substituting the brown sugar for white granulated or at least half light brown and half white. This Caramel Sauce is a very easy one to make - and it's my favorite homemade caramel! I love the flavor you get from caramel that's made with brown sugar. And this version doesn't burn as easily!