Salted Caramel Sauce that is rich, thick and utterly delicious? Yes! This is the easiest and quickest salted caramel sauce you could ever make! Forget making caramel by cooking down sugar, all you need to do is put everything together in a pot and let it simmer. This produces the most wonderful salted caramel sauce, perfect to top ice cream, to use in milkshakes or cakes - or to eat by the spoonful!
I love making salted caramel sauce when I have half or a quarter of a cup leftover and it is getting close to its expiry date and I have no plans for it. This salted caramel sauce only has 5 ingredients (cream, brown sugar, butter, salt and vanilla). There's absolutely no need to buy caramel sauce when this is just 5 minutes away!
Some caramel sauces require you to cook down white sugar to create a caramel and that's all fine but it can be tricky to do. Sugar can seize or it can burn but not this one. So not only is it quicker but it is much easier.
Tips for Making Salted Caramel Sauce
1 - You can use light or dark brown sugar. Dark brown sugar will produce (obviously) a darker caramel sauce but it also has more of a molasse-y flavour to it.
2 - I use salted butter, I never use unsalted butter in recipes because salt is flavour.
3 - I would recommend using full fat pure or thickened cream. Low fat cream will produce a thinner sauce.
4 - Always add the vanilla in at the end so that you get that pure vanilla flavour.
5 - This sauce thickens up upon cooling. To use it I scoop some out of the jar and then just heat it quickly in the microwave to make it liquid again.
6 - This sauce lasts for 2-3 months in the fridge as long as you use a clean spoon every time.
Another idea if you have leftover cream is to make your own butter!
I hate having things go to waste and this is really one of my favourite things to make and I've even made a half batch with a 1/4 cup of cream. Speaking of things going to waste, the other night I went to a travel event at a hotel for a Japanese destination. We were asked to wear orange because the destination Ehime was known for growing oranges. I had my friends Tatyana and Jacqui there and we all sat together. There were 5 speakers that spoke for 10 minutes each extolling the virtues of the destination and they did a great job.
One of my favourite Japanese words is "Genki". To ask if someone is Genki means to ask if they are well or in good health. But genki as an adjective means that they are energetic and lively. It's one of those words that has ended up part of my every day vocabulary because it's shorter to say than energetic or enthusiastic. And the male host of this event was Genki AF. He approached the role with such enthusiasm that it was contagious.
At the end of the night there was a business card lucky dip where some prizes were given out. I won a towel, someone else won a bottle of limoncello and someone else won a ceramic bell. Then the host grabbed a flower arrangement from the lectern and gave that away too. Tatyana giggled and said that they should give away the floral arrangements on the table too. But that was also his plan. "The person at the table wearing the most orange wins the floral arrangement!" It was so cute and it was great that the floral arrangements (which would have been at least $150 each) didn't go to waste!
So tell me Dear Reader, what foreign words have made it into your everyday vocabulary? And do you try and use up every little bit or does it get too overwhelming?
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