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Homemade caramel sauce stirred with a spoon in a glass jar.

Homemade Caramel Sauce Recipe

Bree Hester
4.80 from 5 votes
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Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course sauce
Cuisine American
Servings 2 cups
Calories 1086 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 1 1/4 cups heavy cream warmed
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Put the sugar into a sauce pan.
    Putting sugar into a saucepan for homemade caramel sauce.
  • Cover the pan with the water.. Cook the sugar and water over medium heat.
    Boiling sugar and water in a saucepan for homemade caramel sauce.
  • Bring the sugar to a boil. Have your cream and everything ready to go.
    Bringing the sugar and water to a boil in a saucepan for homemade caramel sauce.
  • When it starts to get to this stage, keep a close eye on it. This takes about 10 minutes.
    Boiling and caramelizing sugar in a saucepan for homemade caramel sauce.
  • When it turns a dark golden amber color (350 on a candy thermometer, but who needs one of those?) you are ready to pour in the cream.
    Pouring heavy cream into the bubbling, golden caramel mixture for homemade caramel sauce.
  • It is going to bubble like crazy. Just keep whisking and it will all come together.
    Whisking the bubbling homemade caramel sauce in a saucepan.
  • See, I told you so. Just like magic. Add the vanilla off of the heat.
    Whisking amber-colored homemade caramel sauce in a stainless steel saucepan.
  • Allow the caramel to come to room temperature. It will thicken up as it sits. Keep it in the fridge.
    Homemade caramel sauce in a glass jar with a spoon, cooling to room temperature.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 1086kcalCarbohydrates: 154gProtein: 4gFat: 54gSaturated Fat: 34gSodium: 44mg
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