This 6-Minute Small Batch Salted Caramel Sauce is so easy and makes just enough!!! Made with just 5 simple ingredients, you’ll want to make this all the time!
Easy Caramel Recipe
It’s that time of year where I want salted caramel EVERYTHING. It’s such a cozy treat! Be it drizzled over your coffee… or straight into your mouth. If you’ve been looking for an easy way to slip into the salted caramel game, this recipe is here for you. No thermometer needed, No fancy ingredients, and No hours of waiting and waiting and waiting. All you need is six minutes and five ingredients!This recipe calls for:
- sugar
- water
- butter
- cream
- and salt.
You can add a splash of vanilla or bourbon at the end, but if you’re watching money and not trying to spend a lot, the sauce will be just as dreamy minus the vanilla. And that’s a promise!
That said, I sometimes add a little splash of Madagascar bourbon vanilla and HOLY SMOKES. It’s so good.
This recipe makes a VERY small batch of caramel because as much as I love salted caramel, it’s one of those things I would rather make fresh and use up all in one shot. Trust me when I say having a giant sticky jar of seductive sweetness lurking in the back of your fridge isn’t as glamorous as it sounds. Have you ever tried getting cold caramel from the depths of a mason jar? Not a fun way to spend the evening. No no no. Lucky for us, I’ve got a solution. Six minute small batch salted caramel sauce.
So now you can have warm, sticky, sweet and salty caramel sauce ready in just SIX minutes! And it makes just enough for two hearty servings! We like to drizzle this over ice cream… or brownies… or lattes… or well, basically anything! So, what will you drizzle your batch over?! Let me know! xo
P.S. This sauce cooks REALLY fast so I don’t recommend leaving it unattended while it’s on the stove. No one wants burnt caramel if their life… I know this from experience 😉
This recipe was updated on 10/22/2018!
I hope you love this quick salted caramel sauce as much as we do!!! If you make it, let me know below!
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6-Minute Small Batch Salted Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 Tablespoon water
- 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon flaky sea salt
- Dash of vanilla or bourbon, optional
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over medium-high heat whisk together sugar and water and bring to a boil. Cook until sugar has dissolved, about 1 minute.
- Reduce heat to a simmer. Add in butter and whisk until combined. Simmer until the mixture turns a deep amber color, about 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and carefully whisk in the cream (it will bubble up ferociously after you add it!). Whisk until well combined. Whisk in salt.
- Pour caramel into a heatproof jar. Allow it to cool a few minutes before using.
Wanda Dawson says
Can you use kosher salt?
Holly says
Am I crazy or did you change this recipe? I’ve made this caramel sauce several times and I swear the directions were totally different
Stephanie says
I came here to ask the same thing!
Lucinda says
I was wondering the same thing because the last two times it didn’t turn out as well as before.
Jenn O'Connor says
Nice simple recipe. Easy to make and quite tasty. I used Celtic Sea Salt instead of kosher. Flavor if perfect for what I am using it for, a mixing for homemade ice cream.cant wait to try it all together.
Melanie Rosen says
Amazing! I used dark brown sugar because I like that intensity. So easy and so good! It counts as breakfast, right?
Inês Nobre says
Hi, i made this caramel yesterday for the first time, and it did have a bit of a gritty texture, i refrigerated it and this mornig when i went to check it out, it was hard as rock. is this normal? can you please help me understand why this happened?
Stephanie says
Are you KIDDING ME?!!!! This is the easiest and yummiest caramel I’ve ever made. Ridiculously delicious. Thank you so much for this awesome recipe! I made some caramel with another recipe the other day and burnt it a little. I feel like this recipe is basically fail-proof.
Anne says
Will this caramel pour over a cheesecake and set? And not become too hard but not drip off?
Liz says
Made it exactly as your recipe said. My husband and I keep making impolite sounds as we dip our spoons in the saucepan. Our taste buds are tossing fall leaves in the air, they are so happy! (Not gritty one bi, but I did whisk it the whole time as you said.)
CToth says
Excellent! Soooo good, made a double recipe and it yielded one cup total. Thank you for this easy simple recipe.
Niki says
This is the best and easiest salted caramel recipe I’ve tried. Thank you for sharing! And just in case anyone else is wondering, I just tried it with a lighter cream(18%) because I didn’t have any whipping cream, and it turned out fine!