Caramel Sauce is a rich and sweet sauce used in cooking. It only requires a limited number of ingredients and is ready in a jiffy. This sauce is easy-to-make and is highly flexible to use. Have it with pudding, ice cream, fruits, cakes, or plain bread. It is going to rock on your cooking.
There are only three ingredients required for making this sauce. All the ingredients are readily available as well. This factor makes the sauce even more appealing.
We are using regular white sugar. It is the ideal one for the sauce base. However, it may form lumps while melting, but nothing to worry about. Some people like to use brown sugar for the same. It will provide a different taste overall. Honey is also a great option and healthier too for sweetening. Replace these with white sugar.
Heavy cream is being used here to make the sauce richer and smoother in texture. If you do not want to use heavy cream, you can substitute it with heavy milk instead. However, it will affect the consistency of the sauce. So make sure the milk contains enough fat contents.
Butter will not only make the texture silkier but will also prevent the sauce from burning. We recommend Unsalted butter to use here as it will let you adjust the salt content in the recipe if you add it.
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This sauce is not thick enough to coat the apples for the caramel apple recipe. It is much better as a dip for the apple slices.
If the sauce crystallizes, you need not make the whole sauce again. Instead, add the required amount of water and heat the sauce for the crystallized sugar to melt completely.
This caramel sauce comes with multiple uses. You can use it as a dip for fruits, drizzle it over brownies or pour ice-creams, glaze it over a cake, layer a cake with this. Or you can even gift it to someone else.
You can substitute brown sugar with white sugar. It also adds nice flavours. However, you may need to melt the butter before adding suh=gar to the pan. Or even boil the water first if you are using it.
It is easy to do if you want to thicken this sauce for dipping apples. Just add one cup of corn syrup to the sauce along with the sugar, and you will get the required consistency.