Quick Salted Caramel Sauce

By nnlester

Ingredients

• 1 cup cream
• 1/2 cup raw honey, sucanat, or coconut sugar – when made with sucanat or coconut sugar, the recipe will be a deeper caramel color than with honey (where to buy honey, where to buy sucanat, where to buy sustainably produced coconut sugar)
• 1/4 cup butter
• generous pinch of unrefined sea salt (where to buy salt)

Preparation

Step 1

Place cream, honey (or sucanat/coconut sugar) and butter in a small pot. Bring to a boil over medium/high heat, whisking occasionally.
Reduce heat to medium and allow to boil gently for 7-12 minutes. Coconut sugar is more prone to burning so I keep the cooking time around seven minutes and check it often. Honey, on the other hand, takes the longest to develop a caramel flavor – about 12 minutes, sometimes longer.
Stir in the salt and then place in the fridge to cool. Warm to room temperature before serving.