Sauce Caramel

How to make caramel sauce.

Sauce caramel. It is slowly melted to breakdown the sugar compounds and cooled to form the taste color and texture we all love. And over medium high heat cook the sugar. Sugar will liquefy and then turn into golden.

Cook while whisking gently for 5 to 7 minutes until it gets thicker. What is caramel sauce made of. I waited and watched the mixture until it turned golden brown.

At first the water will bubble madly and the caramels stick together in a large blob. Tip the sugar into a heavy based frying pan stir in 4 tbsp water then place over a medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Caramel sauce is made by mixing caramelized sugar with cream.

When it starts to turn into amber remove the pan out of heat. Caramel sauce is used in a variety of desserts especially as a topping for ice cream. Depending on the intended application additional ingredients such as butter fruit purees liquors or vanilla can be used.

If you used a block caramel cut it into pieces before putting it into the pot. Add the vanilla and cook another minute. This simple and easy recipe will have you drizzling caramel on anything from breakfast pancakes pound cake to vanilla ice cream.

Cooking the sauce place unwrapped caramel candies into a heavy bottomed pot. This is a rich sweet caramel sauce that can be made at the last minute that is great on bread pudding gingerbread apple pie chopped apples ice cream and anything else you want to put it on. Leave the sauce to cool then tip into a squeezy bottle.