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Caramel Sauce

A delicious and easy caramel sauce! Pour over ice cream, cake or these ice cream sandwiches. NOTE: Sugar melts at very high temps! Please be careful and have no distractions while making this dessert. Have all ingredients prepped and ready before starting. Please watch video tutorial (link in post)
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword easy dessert recipe, kid-friendly recipes
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 8 minutes
Total Time 13 minutes
Servings 16 servings
Author Linda Spiker

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 1 stick butter
  • ¾ cups cream
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions

  1. Place sugar in a heavy bottomed fairly deep pan on med/high heat.
  2. Use a silicon spatula or wooden spoon to push sugar around every few seconds.
  3. As it melts, it will first start to clump, then crystallize and finally become liquid. This takes about five minutes.
  4. When sugar is completely melted add butter. I like to set the butter on a small dish and use a fork to gently slide it into the melted sugar. Be very careful!
  5. When the butter is added it will bubble up…hence the fairly deep pan.
  6. Stir till butter is melted.
  7. When butter is completely melted, turn off heat.
  8. Add cream in a slow and consistent drizzle while stirring.
  9. When caramel is smooth add salt, let it rest for five minutes, then drizzle over cookies. You can also use over cakes and ice cream. Keeps for two weeks in the fridge and reheats well.