Salted Caramel
The most delicious and easiest recipe for homemade salted caramel.
Ingredients
For the Caramel
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 8 tablespoons (120 g) water
- 2 teaspoons (14 g) light corn syrup or honey
- 3/4 cup (180 g) heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon (4.2 g) vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon (6 g) salt
Instructions
- Heat the cream in the microwave for about a minute. Set aside.
- Combine the sugar, water, and corn syrup in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved and then stop stirring.
- You want the mixture to cook on its own. Stirring creates crystallization. If you notice sugar crystallizing on the sides of the pan, soak a pastry brush in warm water and run the brush along the sides of the pan where the sugar is building up.
- Once the mixture turns amber in color, remove the pan from the heat and slowly add the cream, while stirring the caramel.
- Add the vanilla and salt, and stir to combine.
- Cool to room temperature before using. The caramel will thicken as it cools.
- Caramel can be refrigerated for up to two weeks in an airtight container.