Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

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This heavenly homemade Salted Caramel Sauce is a perfect blend of rich caramel sweetness with a touch of sea salt. It has a perfect balance between sweet and salty, creating a symphony of flavors that will add a fancy touch to your favorite desserts.

I love caramel recipes and I have been using this salted caramel sauce in many of my recipes. This salted caramel sauce is rich, buttery, and enhances the flavor of anything it touches.

 It’s incredibly versatile, you can use it in various desserts and drizzle it over ice cream, pancakes, cakes, cookies, cheesecake, pies or waffles for a quick way to make your food taste fancier.

The recipe is really easy and quick, and you need just a few basic ingredients, sugar, butter, cream salt and vanilla extract. You don’t need a candy thermometer for this sauce and is ready in just a few minutes.

How to make homemade salted caramel sauce

 Begin by placing sugar and water in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Let it cook without stirring until the sugar dissolves and turns a caramel color.

Next, take the pan off the heat and carefully add the cream. It might bubble a bit, so be cautious.

Now, cook for about 1 minute, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture is smooth.

Afterward, remove it from the heat and add the butter and salt. Stir vigorously until everything blends together smoothly. Pour this delightful sauce into a small jar and let it cool.

 As it cools down the sauce hardens slightly. Refrigerate the leftovers. 

After refrigerating, you may need to heat it up again as it hardens in the fridge. I like to warm it over bain-marie until it reaches the desired pouring consistency. 

There you have it! Your very own homemade caramel sauce, ready to add a touch of sweetness to your favorite treats.

Hope you will try this Salted Caramel Sauce and let it transform your everyday treats into extraordinary culinary masterpieces.  If you do, make sure to share the photos with me on Instagram. Enjoy!

Recipes with caramel sauce

This Caramel Apple Crisp Cheesecake combines a buttery cookie crust with a creamy caramel cheesecake layer, generously topped with spiced apples and a tantalizingly crispy crumble topping. As the finishing touch, a drizzle of salted caramel sauce takes this dessert to new heights of deliciousness.

This Apple Walnut Caramel Cake is a mouthwatering rich dessert, full of flavor and texture, perfect for any time of the year. Soft and moist apple cake layers topped with a crunchy caramelized walnuts, filled with dulce de leche buttercream and topped with salted caramel sauce.

This incredible Caramel Carrot Cake with two layers of moist carrot cake and delicious frosting will leave your taste buds in heaven. The caramel cream cheese frosting, made with homemade salted caramel sauce, is the perfect complement to the sweetness of the cake. 

This Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake is a decadent rich cake, full of flavor and texture. It is composed from three layers of moist chocolate cakes, enriched with toasted pecans and filled with salted caramel sauce and a cream cheese caramel frosting, topped with a beautiful and impressing caramel sail. 

salted caramel sauce

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Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

5 from 2 votes
This heavenly homemade Salted Caramel Sauce is a perfect blend of rich caramel sweetness with a touch of sea salt. It has a perfect balance between sweet and salty, creating a symphony of flavors that will add a fancy touch to your favorite desserts.
Servings 1 cup
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
Total Time 14 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup  (200g) sugar
  • 1/4 cup (60ml) water
  • 1/2 cup (120g) whipping cream
  • 2 tbsp (30g) unsalted butter , room temperature
  • 1 tsp (5g) vanilla extract
  • 1 tsp (5g) salt

Instructions
 

  • Place the sugar and water in a medium heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat, and cook without stirring until sugar dissolves and gets a caramel color.
  • Remove the pan from the heat and add the cream. It will bubble a little bit.
  • Cook for about 1 minute stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until smooth.
  • Remove from heat and add butter and salt. Stir well until smooth. Pour into a small jar and set aside to cool.

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Notes

As it cools down the sauce hardens slightly. Refrigerate the leftovers. 
After refrigerating, you may need to heat it again as it hardens in the fridge. I like to warm it over a bain-marie until it reaches the desired pouring consistency.

Nutrition

Serving: 1 cup of salted caramel sauceCalories: 1330kcalCarbohydrates: 204.2gProtein: 2.9gFat: 61.4gSaturated Fat: 38.6gCholesterol: 198mgSodium: 2152mgPotassium: 131mgSugar: 200.8gCalcium: 92mg
Calories: 1330kcal
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: caramel, caramel sauce, homemade caramel sauce, salted caramel sauce

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  1. 5 stars
    This recipe is so easy and so delicious!

    After burning a dry caramel twice, I went back to your recipe. It’s delicious and almost foolproof!

    Thank you for your blog and for sharing those delicious recipes with us!!

    1. Ella - Home Cooking Adventure Author says:

      Thank you so much for your kind words! I’m so glad the recipe worked for you after those caramel mishaps! 😊 It makes me so happy to know you’re enjoying the recipes.

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