The Best Homemade Caramel
Base caramel recipe for all your caramel confections!
Servings: 12 people
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) Salted Butter
- 4 cups Sugar
- 2 cups Corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt *for a salted caramel increase the salt to 1 teaspoon or more to taste
- 2 cups Heavy whipping cream
Instructions
- In a heavy bottomed pan, add the butter, sugar, corn syrup, salt and stir over medium high heat. Once the butter has melted completely and the sugar has dissolved, slowly pour the heavy cream into the mixture while stirring. You don't want to add it too fast or it can make your caramel crystallize or grainy. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until it hits the appropriate temperature stage you are going for. For traditional caramel you want to cook until 238 F. or the hard ball stage when doing the ice water test.