In the wintertime, we long for warm summer days when we sit out on the porch in the
sunshine with a bowl of creamy vanilla ice-cream smothered in chocolate and caramel sauce. But you can make your own warm caramel sauce. It is wonderful on baked apples and bread pudding and... ice-cream! Here is how you do it:
Gather all your ingredients together, as this process happens fast and requires you to stir constantly:
1/3 Cup butter
1 Cup brown sugar
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup heavy cream
In a large, deep pan, melt the butter, syrup and sugar. Cooking at medium heat, bring this to a boil, add the salt.
Keep stirring until it begins to thicken (about 5 minutes). The sauce will begin to pull away from the pan a bit as you stir and you will know that this is thick enough.
Remove from the heat.
It won't take but a few seconds, after you remove the sauce from the heat, for it to stop boiling. Slowly add the cream with one hand and stir with the other. You do not want to add the cream to the boiling sugar, as it will curdle!
If you want caramel sauce for ice cream, set this aside to cool and put into a glass jar--very yummy! Refrigerate what you do not use immediately, once it has cooled. It will get thick in the refrigerator, but all you have to do is stick it into the microwave for 15 seconds, and it will be soft again.
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