How to make best of the best caramel sauce

5 from 5 votes

Make this easy caramel sauce for toffee, desserts and pudding.

Course basics

Cuisine American

Diet Vegetarian

Keyword caramel sauce, perfect caramel sauce

Method stove top

Difficulty Moderate

Recipe Type Vegetarian

Cook Time 15

Total Time 15

Servings cup

Calories 1988kcal

Author Priya

Transfer sugar into a sauce pan. Make sure to use heavy bottom pan here else sugar will burn quickly.
1 cup sugar
Keep the flame medium. Always use medium flame/ temperature to make caramel sauce. Do not use high flame to make sauce as sugar will burn quickly.
Stir sugar constantly and slowly add 3 tablespoon water in batches.
3 tablespoon water
Make sure you are stirring the mixture constantly.
Sugar will eventually melt into a brown, amber color as you continue stirring.
Once sugar is completely melted, add butter and quickly remove the pan from the heat and step behind. mix it well. put the pan again on the flame. Be careful in this step because the caramel will bubble rapidly when the butter is added.
½ cup butter
Once the butter is completely melted and mixed, slowly add cream. Caramel will bubble rapidly again.
½ cup cream
Mix cream and simmer the sauce for 40 seconds on medium flame.
Turn off the flame and remove the pan. Keep stirring the mixture for 1 minute or 2.
Your sauce is ready. once it is cooled completely, transfer in a jar.

I used granulated sugar here. You can use regular white sugar too.
You can use either salted or unsalted butter. Salted butter will give a slight salty taste. I used unsalted butter here.
I made this sauce with 35% cream. You can use amul fresh cream.