Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce is the most indulgent sweet and salty sauce you have ever tasted. Made easily at home in just 15 minutes!
Just like Hot Fudge and Whipped Cream, this homemade Sauce is the perfect topping for desserts. Try it on your favorites today!
Sabrina’s Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce Recipe
This caramel sauce is just one of those things that you see someone pour over a dessert and you immediately want some too. You will be shocked at just how easy this recipe is to make!
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn syrup , (I use a homemade variety from this recipe)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 tablespoon whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt , (plus more for sprinkling)
Instructions
- Combine the sugar and corn syrup in a saucepan.
- Cook on medium high heat, stirring constantly,
- It will be a white color at first.
- Then it will turn a light caramel.
- Once it is caramel colored add the butter and whisk.
- It will violently boil, it is okay!
- Add the milk and vanilla and stir until smooth and combined.
- Add sea salt.
- Let cool, serve on favorite desserts and garnish with a bit more sea salt!
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Sabrina Tips
Make sure that your dairy ingredients (butter and heavy cream) are at room temperature before making this recipe. If you add them when they are cold they can cause the smooth mixture to clump up or splatter causing you to get burned.
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About this Recipe
Homemade caramel sauce sounds daunting to most but it is actually a really quick fifteen minute recipe that results in the most indulgent, delicious, buttery and salty caramel sauce you have ever tasted. Once you have poured it over your favorite dessert, don’t forget to sprinkle extra sea salt on top.
What to Pair With
There are many ways to use homemade Caramel Sauce. You can pour caramel over desserts like Apple Crisps, New York Style Cheesecake, Double Chocolate Brownies, and so many other treats.
How to Store
- Serve: Let the dessert topping cool for a few minutes before using it since it will be VERY hot. It’s delicious to serve while still warm.
- Store: Let it cool to room temperature. Then pour the caramel into a mason jar or another airtight container. It can stay good in the fridge for up to 3 weeks. Reheat the mixture for 30 seconds in the microwave before serving.
- Freeze: Pour the sauce to an airtight container to freeze it. The frozen caramel can stay good for 2-3 months. Transfer the container to the fridge to let it thaw before serving.
Ideas to Serve
Ice Cream Sundaes are a summer time favorite! Make more dessert sauces like Pineapple Topping, Strawberry Topping and Chocolate Gravy. If your feeling very adventurous, trying making and serving with your own Vanilla Ice Cream!
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I have no idea how to make my own caramel sauce but now I DO! It looks like a beautiful and sweet treat to try.
Looks so amazing and so easy! I’m going to have to make this at home!
Yes!
As always, this looks delicious! I love making caramel sauce and I will have to try making yours!
Awesome! I hope you love it!
I think a salted caramel sauce sounds really amazing. I’d try this in a heartbeat.
This looks fantastic! I have always wanted to make salted caramel. Thank you so much for sharing your recipe.
No problem!
I have never tried to make my own Caramel Sauce before. I will have to try this recipe. It looks so delicious and fairly easy to make.
Looks like a fun recipe with many uses. I live caramel and salt. Thanks for sharing.
Where do I start! I don’t want to make it – I just want to EAT EAT EAT it. I just don’t think I will have the patience to finish this deliciousness
This looks beyond delicious. My husband loved salted caramel everything. I am going to have to try this recipe thank you so much.
My pleasure! I love it too! I put it on almost anything.
Diffidently trying this…
I bet that tastes amazing! I didn’t know so many ingredients went into homemade salted caramel sauce!
I didn’t realize it was so easy to make this! Now I’m going to be putting Salted Caramel Sauce on everything.
Yup!
I want to skip breakfast and go straight to this. It looks so delicious.
I know you are probably supposed to put the sauce on top of something, but I just want to drink it straight. It sounds so good!
I’m totally guilty of eating it the same way I eat Nutella. Spoon to mouth!
OOh wow. Salted caramel sauce. That looks really good.
Thank you!
This looks amazing!! I never would have thought that caramel sauce was this easy to make.
I know right?!
This looks amazing! I love carmel, and would love to try this recipe.
This sounds so easy to make that it has to be done soon in this house. YUM!
YUM! This sounds amazing and would be delicious on so many sweet treats.
This looks AMAZING! I am a huge fan of salted caramel sauce. Can’t wait to add this to my sundae treats!
Umm yumm!!! I’m really hoping I have some gelato in my freezer still. It would be so good with caramel.
Oh that sounds so good!
That is so dreamy. Great treat.
Would you judge me if I told you I was sitting here with a pint of Talenti Sea Salted Caramel Gelato because I have a salted caramel addiction? Therefore your post has me bookmarking faster than you can say “Oh I’m so glad to hear that!”.
Lee 🙂
Haha. I LOVE Talenti gelato! I hide it behind things in the freezer so I can have more than one bite of it before everyone else gets to it!
I love anything that is salted caramel and this topping looks absolutely amazing! We do a huge sundae bar on July 4th while we watch fireworks. I’m thinking I need to make some of this!
I hope you love it!
That looks very good. I love caramel sauce, so I bet I’d really love this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
I am not very big on caramel but my husband and daughter sure are. This is a recipe I need to try.
Oh my goodness I am drooling! I love caramel it is my favorite. This would go great on so many things!
Holy WOW, so much drippy goodness!
The suspense is killing me and I am craving something sweet right now. This really has me wanting some caramel topped desserts.
You have to check back tomorrow. It was SO much fun making tomorrow’s dessert!! Ahhhh the anticipation!
I love homemade caramel and yours just looks amazing. I’m definitely going to make this and bowl it over a nice bowl of ice cream. Yum!
This looks amazing! I love how versatile this sauce can be… but i’m not sure if i made it, it would last to be served on any food! Ha! Love it! 🙂
It is SO SO good eaten off a spoon 😉
I just need a spoon. I LOVE salted caramel. It is so good over a bowl of ice cream. The sweet and the salty is absolutely amazing!
I absolutely love salted caramel sauce, but have never made it at home before, I will have to try this!
That looks so good! Doesn’t seem too difficult to make either, I may not even mess it up! This looks great!
oh yum! I love caramel sauce! This would be oh so perfect on top of a fresh apple pie! With a scoop of ice cream too!
Oh yes! It would rock an apple pie!
Oh yes! My mouth is totally watering over this. I love anything salted-caramel. Thanks so much for sharing… YUMMY!
Just look at that salted caramel syrup! It looks really good. I could just imagine the taste of it right now!
Totally delicious looking/sounding! I am going to have to try to make this!
this looks heavenly! i cannot wait to try it. id say frozen yogurt, caramel sauce, nuts. yuuuum!
Yes! I like your style!
It’s dangerous to make something that good look so easy! I might have to break this out for the upcoming long weekend festivities. Your post tomorrow sounds divine too.
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Katie
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Ahhhhh I hope you come back to see it! I CAN NOT WAIT for it to go live, I love it so much!
OMG that looks fantastic! I love homemade caramel sauce!
Thanks!
Oh man, salted caramel is one of my ultimate weaknesses – and this looks terrific! It would take all of my might not to just sit down and have at it with a spoon…
I may have eaten a couple of spoonfuls while taking these pictures!
That looks great. I tried this in a Berlin restaurant once and I always wanted to make it myself. Thank you for the recipe!
My pleasure!
I’m bumping another dessert recipe off the menu for Girls Week Away to make room for this. We’ll be hiking a lot. We can burn this off. Or not. Who cares. We’re having it!
Haha, that is awesome!
Awesome step-by-step photos! I LOVE making homemade caramel sauce but have never tried adding sea salt. What a delicious ideas!
Thank you! I figure since it is color sensitive to when you add the butter it would be helpful to see 🙂
Wow that looks so awesome! My mom used to make homemade chocolate sauce…tastes so much better than the store bought stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Valerie
The homemade stuff is always better! 🙂
Oh my goodness! That looks fantastic! I love salted caramel everything. I can’t wait to put this on my ice cream. Yum!
Thanks!
Oh yum! LOVE salted caramel and I always forget how easy it is to make.
Before I found a recipe for it, I always thought it would be hard too! I was always scared of working with hot sugar.
Oooh, now that’s a gorgeous caramel sauce! Pass me a spoon!
Thank you!
OMG I am drooling over here. That looks so amazing.