I’m good at making this Salted Caramel Sauce, but I’m really bad at styling my daughter’s hair for Homecoming. 😂 Lucky for us both, I was able to pay one of her friends in salted caramel sauce to style her and another friend’s hair for the dance.
I love this sauce drizzled over a slice of apple pie, cut fruit, or ice cream. But truthfully speaking, I love it by the spoonful any time of the day! It’s also a great sauce to keep in mind when you’re trying to think of holiday gifts to take to neighbors. Everyone loves it!
2 cups granulated sugar
12 tablespoons salted butter, at room temperature, cut in to 1 tablespoon pieces
1 cup heavy cream, at room temperature
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1. Get all ingredients prepped on the counter next to the stove.
2. Put the sugar in a medium saucepan and heat over medium to medium high heat, whisking constantly while the sugar melts. (I have a gas stove that runs pretty hot, so I use medium heat.)
3. Stir constantly until the sugar is melted and the color is an amber brown (the color of caramel). Turn down the heat if necessary, you don’t want the sugar getting too brown before it is completely melted. This is the critical part because you don’t want to burn your sugar….
4. Turn the heat down to low and add the butter pieces, whisking constantly until they are incorporated into the sugar. The mixture will splatter a little when you add the butter, and you might worry you’ve ruined the caramel at this point, but just keep whisking as the mixture comes together.
5. Immediately remove from the heat and add the cream. Whisk until the mixture comes together. Add the salt and whisk again. Transfer to another container and let cool at room temperature. Store covered in the refrigerator for 2 weeks.
**Note: When using kosher salt, it won’t get totally dissolved into the caramel and there will be a few granules left in pan after cooking. Nothing to worry about 👍
Process Photos! (Updated 10/20)
Start by melting the granulated sugar over a medium, to medium-high heat (depending on how hot your stove runs).
When the sugar looks like this, keep whisking until it looks like this!
To the melted sugar, add the butter pieces.
The mixture will foam and bubble and you might think you’ve ruined the caramel, but keep whisking (sometimes I move the mixture off the heat for this step if the mixture is browning faster than I’d like).
Keep wishking and eventually the sauce will look like this….
And then it is time to pour in the cream. Again, you might think you’ve ruined it, but keep whisking. Keep the faith, friends!
After the mixture has come together, add the kosher salt and whisk together.
And voila, the perfect Salted Caramel Sauce!
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