Salted Maple Caramel Sauce

Name: Salted Maple Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: ½ stick Unsalted butter; 1 cup Brown sugar; ½ cup Heavy cream; ¼ cup Maple syrup; ¼ teaspoon Coarse sea salt

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Salted Maple Caramel Sauce is made with just five ingredients and in 20 minutes time! It’s perfect to top on your favorite dessert or even on waffles or pancakes for a sweet surprise.

Two glass jars filled with caramel sauce with an orange spoon dripping caramel.

I love making my own caramel sauce at home. This recipe for Salted Maple Caramel Sauce is one of my fall favorite recipes. I love to drizzle this maple caramel sauce on my pumpkin waffles or even on pumpkin buttermilk pancakes!

Caramel sauce is incredibly easy to make at home. If you have butter, sugar, and cream you can make caramel sauce. Some methods even require no cream! I prefer my caramel sauce with cream because who doesn’t love extra calories (I kid)?!?! I wanted to give my caramel sauce a taste of fall, so I decided to get wild and crazy and add in some maple syrup. I also used brown sugar instead of traditional white sugar to give it deeper flavor and color. I didn’t have any on hand but if you happened to have maple extract on hand you could always give it a few drops to really intensify the flavor.

In this post you will learn the following information.

🥘Ingredients
🔪Directions
⭐FAQs
💭Tips & Tricks
📋Recipes

Ingredients

Butter – You can use salted or unsalted butter as the base of this sauce.
Brown Sugar – I use light brown sugar but dark brown sugar is fine too.
Heavy Cream – There are no substitutes you have to have heavy cream for this recipe.
Maple Syrup – You will want the highest quality for this recipe as the maple tones are throughout this caramel sauce.
Salt – I use just a pinch of kosher salt and it lends the perfect salty to the sweet.

Directions

6 process photos of how to make salted caramel sauce.

In a saucepan, add the half stick of butter. Heat on medium heat until its melted.
Using a wooden spoon, begin to stir in the brown sugar. Continue stirring until well incorporated. Then slowly start to mix the cream into the saucepan. Stirring continuously.
Bring the caramel sauce up to a boil (and continue to mix until it becomes thick and to the consistency of your liking).
Turn the heat off, mix in the maple syrup and coarse salt, mix one last time and remove from heat. Let cool on stove top (mixing periodically). Use right away or store in an airtight container for up to one week.

FAQs

Two glass jars filled with caramel sauce with fall leaves and pumpkins.

What is the best sugar for caramel?

I like to use brown sugar for caramel; however, you can also use granulated sugar.

How can you tell when caramel is done?

When you are making caramel you need to watch it very closely so it does not burn. As soon as it begins to bubble and start to smoke is when you need to pull the caramel off the burner.

What is caramel sauce made of?

Caramel sauce is made of caramelized sugar that is mixed with heavy cream.

Tips & Tricks

Top view of an open glass jar filled with caramel sauce.

Here are a few of my favorite tips and tricks I’ve found helpful when making maple caramel.

Prep – Have all of your ingredients ready since this recipe moves very fast.
Quality – High quality ingredients are a must for this recipe.
Storage – I love to use glass jars as they don’t hold the smells from what was stored in them last.

Caramel & Maple Recipes

Two glass jars filled with caramel on a yellow cloth with fall leaves.

Here are a few recipes that you could use this Salted Maple Caramel Sauce in!

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