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Katie's Cucina » Recipes » Dessert

Salted Maple Caramel Sauce

Published: Oct 12, 2020 · Modified: Jun 5, 2025 by Katie · This post may contain affiliate links

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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

Ingredients: heavy cream, butter, maple syrup, brown sugar and salt.
  • 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!

  • Pumpkin Spice Caramel Chocolate Chip Pancakes
  • New York Cheesecake
  • Salted Caramel Chocolate Frappuccino
  • Buttermilk Waffles
  • Apple Pie
  • No-Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie
  • Dark Chocolate Cheesecake
  • Apple Cheesecake Bars

If you make this maple syrup caramel recipe, I would be honored and love for you to take the time to leave a star rating and comment! I spend hours developing and testing these recipes, and always love to hear feedback and user experience!

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

Salted Maple Caramel Sauce

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.
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Course: Dessert, Sauce
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 2 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Resting Time: 13 minutes minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 16
Calories: 117kcal
Author: Katie

Equipment

  • Stove Top

Ingredients

  • ½ stick Unsalted butter
  • 1 cup Brown sugar
  • ½ cup Heavy cream
  • ¼ cup Maple syrup
  • ¼ teaspoon Coarse sea salt

Instructions

  • 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 the caramel sauce cool on stove top for 10-15 minutes (mixing periodically). Use right away or store in an airtight container for up to one week.

Notes

  • Yields – This recipe yields 1 cup.
  • 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.

Nutrition

Serving: 1tablespoon | Calories: 117kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 44mg | Potassium: 35mg | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 198IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 1mg
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Katie is a busy mom of 2 children who loves to feed her family delicious meals that don't take hours to cook! She started her blog 15 years ago as a way to help others get cooking in the kitchen.

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Comments

  1. Nutmeg Nanny

    November 11, 2013 at 10:54 pm

    Oh my, I am loving this sauce recipe! It sounds divine 🙂

    Reply
    • Katie

      November 23, 2013 at 7:36 am

      Brandy–I may or may not have been putting the sauce on just about EVERYTHING!

  2. Kari@Loaves n Dishes

    November 05, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    I adore maple I’m dreaming of all kinds of uses for this yummy caramel!

    Reply
  3. Cathy Pollak ~ Noble Pig

    November 05, 2013 at 10:17 am

    This is going to be over ice cream at my house soon!

    Reply
    • Katie

      November 05, 2013 at 4:42 pm

      Mmmm…. I could bathe in it–its so good. Then again I could bathe in anything that has to do with salted caramel (pregnant or not)! lol.

  4. Karly

    November 04, 2013 at 7:17 pm

    Love this, Katie! Would it be weird to drown my pancakes in this sauce?

    Reply
    • Katie

      November 05, 2013 at 4:40 pm

      LOl… Karly I totally drowned my waffles in it yesterday morning… no judgement here! lol if I could I would probably bathe in it! lol

  5. danielle

    November 04, 2013 at 7:15 pm

    yum – this sounds really really good!

    Reply
    • Katie

      November 05, 2013 at 4:40 pm

      Thanks Danielle–the pictures don’t do it justice!

  6. Kayle (The Cooking Actress)

    November 04, 2013 at 6:06 pm

    ooooooooh! awesome idea, adding the maple syrup!

    Reply
    • Katie

      November 05, 2013 at 4:41 pm

      I know–perfect for the fall months and if you had extract it would intensify the flavor.

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