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Caramel Sauce
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Caramel Sauce

Sugar melted on its own until amber, hot heavy cream poured in slowly, then butter and salt: a smooth, glossy caramel sauce that thickens as it cools and is poured over a cooled cake.

⏱ 15 min
🧀 Dairy🥬 Vegetarian🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 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. 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. 3
    Add the butter and salt and stir until the sauce is smooth and glossy.
  4. 4
    Let the sauce cool and pour it over the cooled cake.
429calories
1 gprotein
51 gcarbs
25 gfat
● protein 1%● carbs 47%● fat 52%

Per serving (101 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 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)

By the steps, as the recipe is built now: another version or addition can change the list.

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Heavy cream · butter · salt · Cooking the sauce at the end (minutes) (3) · Vanilla · Cooling before use (minutes) (10) · Poured hot over the pastry and served (the pastry) · Keeping in the fridge (up to) (2 weeks) · The rest of the cake's sugar and butter (no lines of their own) (the rest of the sugar and butter)

⇄ Alternative recipes

Cream cheese frosting · Powdered Sugar Glaze · Buttercream · Fruit Topping · Cooked Cocoa Glaze · Chocolate Cream Glaze

🔗 Used in

Chocolate Tart · Moist Chocolate Cake · No-Bake Cheesecake · One-bowl oil cake · Baked Cheesecake · Butter Cookies · Melted chocolate cake · Muffins · Yeast Swirls · Creamed butter cake · Biscuit Cake · Layered Honey Cake (Medovik) and 2

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