Butterscotch Sauce
Butterscotch sauce, with its sweet, buttery, rich flavor, is a delicious old-fashioned dessert sauce that makes all of your favorite treats irresistible!
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted sweet cream butter
- 1 cup dark brown sugar packed
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Instructions
- Using a 2 to 3-quart heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat, add the butter and stir until melted.
- Whisk in the brown sugar and heavy cream. Continue to whisk just until the sugar dissolves. Stop whisking and allow the mixture to boil for 4 minutes. Do not stir.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Allow the butterscotch sauce to sit for 10 to 15 minutes. Pour into a ½ pint mason jar. The longer the sauce sits, the thicker it will get.
Notes
This sauce will freeze well. Consider making a big batch of butterscotch sauce and keep it for later.
Keep a close eye on your mixture and follow the boiling time closely, as you don’t want it to burn to the bottom of your pan.
The butterscotch sauce will thicken as it cools. Once it is completely cool, if it is too thick to pour smoothly, it can be reheated for 10 to 15 seconds at a time in the microwave to make it more pourable.