Sauces

Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce

Name: Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 7 oz sugar; ½ cup cream; 3 oz salted butter; 1 tsp coarse salt; 1 tsp vanilla extract

A rich, glossy homemade salted caramel sauce. Perfect on ice cream, pancakes, cake or just as it is, with a spoon.

⏱ 20 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Israeli👩‍🍳 Afoona

🧀 Dairy 🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-free

Versions:Original 🌱 Vegan ⚖ Pareve

👨‍🍳 Method

1
Melt the sugar on its own in a pot over medium heat, swirling the pot without stirring, until the caramel is smooth and amber.
StoveSmall saucepan
2
Heat the cream and pour it slowly into the caramel, stirring.
Small saucepan
💡Pour the cream in slowly: it bubbles up hard when it meets the caramel, and all at once it boils over.
3
Add the butter, salt and vanilla extract and stir until the sauce is smooth and glossy.
4
Transfer the sauce to a jar and let cool for 10 minutes before using. Keep in a closed jar in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Jar

455calories

1 gprotein

51 gcarbs

28 gfat

● protein 1%● carbs 45%● fat 55%

Per serving (105 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

Sugar: 1 cup = 200 g · 387 kcal per 100 g · More about Sugar →
Cream: measured in cup in this recipe: 1 cup = 240 g · 324 kcal per 100 g · More about Cream →
Salted butter: 717 kcal per 100 g · More about Salted butter →
Coarse salt: measured in tsp in this recipe: 1 tsp = 4.8 g · 0 kcal per 100 g · More about Coarse salt →
Vanilla extract: measured in tsp in this recipe: 1 tsp = 4.2 g · 288 kcal per 100 g · More about Vanilla extract →

🔧 Tools needed (3) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Small saucepan · Also works: Pot (None) · Frying pan (A deep pan for sauces)
Jar · Also works: Storage container (None)

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Caramel Sauce

Caramel Sauce · Cake Frosting
Alternatives for this part: Cream cheese frosting · Powdered Sugar Glaze · Buttercream · Fruit Topping · Cooked Cocoa Glaze · Chocolate Cream Glaze
Possible additions: Heavy cream · butter · salt · Cooking the sauce at the end (minutes) · Vanilla · Cooling before use (minutes) · Poured hot over the pastry and served · Keeping in the fridge (up to) · The rest of the cake's sugar and butter (no lines of their own)

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