Dark Caramel Sauce
tablespoons (recipe makes 2.5 cups)
Make your own copycat Starbucks Dark Caramel Sauce at home! Rich, easy, and budget-friendly. Coffee lovers can make their own caramel drinks using this 6 ingredient sauce.
tablespoons (recipe makes 2.5 cups)
Ingredients
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons corn syrup
- ⅓ cup water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy cream
- ½ cup unsalted butter cut into pieces
Instructions
- In a heavy saucepan, stir together granulated sugar, corn syrup, and water. Stir until combined.
- Place the saucepan over medium heat and bring the mixture to a simmer. During this time, stir the mixture to ensure that the sugar dissolves evenly and completely as it heats.
- Use a pastry brush dipped in water to wash down the sides of the pan, making sure that no sugar crystals remain stuck to the pan above the line of the mixture.
- Once the mixture comes to a simmer and the pan has been washed down, do not stir any longer.
- Place a candy thermometer in the sugar mixture and monitor it as it heats until the color turns amber and the candy thermometer has reached about 355-360°F.
- Remove the caramelized sugar from the heat and slowly stir in the cream, taking care as the mixture will splatter.
- Stir in the vanilla extract and then the pieces of butter, 2 tablespoons at a time.
- Cool to room temperature.
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Notes
Notes:
For the perfect salted caramel, add a large pinch of sea salt flakes.
If you are using salted butter, it will taste a bit different, but will still be delicious.
Medium amber color occurs when the mixture cooks at 355-360 degrees. Dark caramel is heated to 375-380 degrees. Once the sugar changes colors, the temperature can increase fast and burn.
Washing the sides of the pan ensures the caramel will not be grainy. This is also why we use corn syrup.
By caramelizing granulated sugar we are making a "true" caramel sauce. You can also make easy caramel sauce using butter and brown sugar.
Nutrition
Calories: 82kcal | Carbohydrates: 11g | Protein: 0.2g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 13mg | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 7mg | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 158IU | Vitamin C: 0.04mg | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 0.01mg
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