Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to make caramel at home. This easy caramel sauce, which is rich and delicious, can be used in a variety of recipes. You can use it to fill a salted caramel cake, drizzle over ice cream, or eat it with a spoonful. This caramel recipe is illustrated with photos to help you make it without any second guessing.
Caramel at Home: How to Make it?
We’re going to share our foolproof recipe today for the best homemade salted caramel you’ll have ever tasted. We’re going to show you how easy it is to make homemade caramel sauce with only three ingredients. You don’t need any special equipment or thermometers.
How to make the best homemade caramel
Use butter of high quality: You are only as good as the ingredients you use, and your caramel sauce can be made or broken by your butter. It’s worth it to spend a few extra dollars on a higher-quality caramel sauce.
Never let your caramel sauce sit unattended. To create caramel sauce, you need to toast the white sugar until it melts, then add butter, cream, and salt. Keep an eye on your sugar, as it can quickly go from toasty to burnt.
Do not forget to add salt! Without it, caramel is too sweet. Salt adds a lot of flavor to caramel and keeps it from being too sweet.
This guide will help you to understand the process so you can enjoy salted caramel at home without shame.
Step one: Heat the sugar in a heavy-bottomed pan on medium heat.
Stir the sugar occasionally, but not constantly.
Step Two: Stir the sugar every few minutes to melt it.
The sugar will first clump and then start melting. It can take as long as 15 minutes. Be patient! When your caramel has dissolved completely, and there are no sugar clumps left, you’ll know it’s done.
Here is how your caramel should appear at the end of the step:
Step 3: Remove from heat. Stir butter into the melted sugar.
The mixture will start to bubble up violently.
This is what homemade caramel should do! Butter is colder than sugar, and they are just getting to know one another. Sparks fly.
After a few minutes, the two will begin to mix. Keep whisking them until they’re completely homogeneous.
Here is how the caramel should appear at the end of the step:
