It’s National Caramel Day! I love caramel as a flavor. I love it in coffee, ice cream, and candies. It’s a classic flavor, but usually filled with no-no’s for vegans usually containing butter and cream. Now with the number of artisan vegan butters on the market and cream substitutes available, I figured it was time to revisit and make my own caramel sauce! It’s incredible and incredibly easy to make.
I used Florida Crystals which are vegan and a vegan butter and Silk’s vegan heavy cream. You can use any vegan butter you’d like though and any cream substitute including full fat coconut milk. You could even use vegan half and half, but I would then reduce the amount to a third of a cup so the end result is thicker. The only other ingredient you’ll need is salt!
The only thing you really need to be careful of in this recipe is to not burn the sugar when melting it. If you do, you’ll have to start over as your caramel will just taste burnt. As soon as I see the last clump of sugar melt, I turn off the heat and add the butter.
This is great on ice cream, drizzled on a cake or in my fantastic chocolate peanut butter caramel cups with cookies (sort of like a vegan Twix!). You can find that recipe here. I hope you enjoy it!
Easy Vegan Salted Caramel Sauce
An easy and delicious vegan salted caramel sauce. You can make this, I have faith in you (or maybe I don’t, I don’t really know you).
Ingredients
1 cup vegan sugar
6 tablespoons vegan butter
1/2 cup vegan cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
Directions
- In a heavy saucepan, place the sugar and heat on medium to low heat until the sugar begins to melt. Stir every 15 seconds or so just until you can no longer see any lumps left and then turn off the heat. DO NOT OVERCOOK OR IT WILL BURN! if you burn the sugar, you’ll need to start over.
- Add the butter. The mixture will foam up immediately. That’s normal. Keep stirring until the butter completely melts.
- Add the cream and salt and keep stirring until completely mixed together.
- Cool completely before serving.
Notes
- You can add some vanilla extract or add cinnamon, or any other flavor you like!
- You can use any vegan butter you’d like it a more solid one is best. I used Silk vegan heavy whipping cream but you can use full fat coconut milk or any other vegan cream.
- If you desire a thicker caramel, reduce the amount of cream to only 1/3 cup.
- This stores well in the fridge for weeks or you can even freeze it.
- This is great on ice cream, cakes or use in candies.
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