Surprise, a touch of bottled smoke is the easy route to burnt sugar flavor in caramel sauce. This melt-and-stir cheater sauce eliminates the intimidating and time-consuming step of caramelizing sugar—cooking white sugar slowly in a skillet until it turns toasty brown.
Recipe information
Yield
makes about 2 cups
Ingredients
Preparation
Step 1
COMBINE all the ingredients in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until smooth and creamy.
Variations
Step 2
Toasted pound cake with ice cream and caramel sauce. Add sliced fresh peaches, bananas, or pecans, if you like.
Step 3
Banana caramel sundaes with vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce, sliced bananas, and toasted nuts.
Step 4
Turtle brownie sundaes with ice cream and caramel sauce.
Step 5
Vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce topped with bits of crystallized ginger.
Step 6
Stir a couple tablespoons of spiced rum, bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, or Scotch whisky into the sauce and serve over ice cream.
