Salted Caramel Sauce

Salted Caramel Sauce. You need this sauce in your life just like you need a pumpkin spice candle, and a maple leaf wreath, and decorative gourds.

Yes, you do. And you can have it in just five minutes.

Lookie here for Salted Caramel Sauce featuring Pumpkin Pecan Cream Cheese Bread Pudding or, you know, Pumpkin Pecan Cream Cheese Bread Pudding featuring Caramel Sauce. Either way, your life will never be the same.

Salted Caramel Sauce

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 teaspoons corn syrup

Melt butter over low heat in a medium-large saucepan. Add brown sugar to melted butter, stir, and turn the heat up to about medium. Watch closely and stir only as needed. When the sauce comes to a boil and gets foamy looking, allow it to cook for about three minutes. Carefully add cream, vanilla, salt, & corn syrup. Remove from heat and stir. Set aside to cool.

The corn syrup helps prevent crystallizing. Your sauce will thicken as it cools. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

And now when you tell your friends your Caramel Sauce is homemade and they ask, “Homemade homemade?” and you’re all like, ‘Yeah, like homemade homemade!”  You can be all proud and stuff. Because you are awesome sauce. And that’s not just the caramel talkin’.