Recipes · inspired by Salt Caramel in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 10
Five-Minute Salted Caramel Sauce
Easy brown-sugar salted caramel for dipping apples or pouring over ice cream. No candy thermometer needed.
- Ready in
- 8 min
- Ingredients
- 6
- Makes
- about 3/4 cup
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
Classic caramel means melting white sugar until it turns amber, which can burn in seconds. Starting with brown sugar is much more forgiving. Hot sugar can burn badly, so this one is a grown-up job until it has cooled.
Make it a learning moment: a little salt makes sweet things taste sweeter and richer. Taste a drop before and after adding the salt.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Grown-up Melt the butter and brown sugar in a small pot over medium heat, stirring.
- Grown-up Pour in the cream (it will bubble up) and let it simmer 4 minutes, stirring often, until a little thicker.
- Grown-up Take it off the heat and stir in the salt and vanilla.
- Kids Let it cool for 10 minutes. It is extremely hot until then. Dip or drizzle.
