Bourbon Caramel Sauce - Family Favorite Recipe - Dishes Delish (2024)

This bourbon caramel sauce recipe is just a little boozy but so delicious, especially poured over ice cream.

I’m almost always in the mood for ice cream. My usual choice is something with chocolate in it, but lately I’ve been wanting vanilla based ice cream but I always have to have some delicious sauce poured on it.

That’s where this bourbon caramel sauce comes in.

I love caramel sauce but sometimes I think it needs something added to it to make it extra delicious and bourbon is the perfect addition.

Try it and see.

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How to make bourbon caramel sauce

Pre-step

Get a medium saucepan and a small saucepan.

Step one

Gather the ingredients –sugar, honey, butter, vanilla and heavy cream.

I’m not going to show photos of the process because I show them here. So, if you like to see what it should look like, go to that post.

Step two

Add sugar and honeyto a saucepan and heat on medium low. Once the sugar melts in the honey, lower the heat to a simmer and place a candy thermometer in the pan.

Step three

In a second saucepan, add cream and heat it on medium.

Step four

Once the cream has heated but before it comes to a boil, add butter, vanilla, salt and bourbon.

Step five

When the butter has melted, add it to the sugar mixture. This is the only time I stir the mixture with a utensil.

Now, I don’t feel like myfoolish candy thermometer isworking properly today, so, one of the things I do with this recipe, is eyeball it. No measurement with a thermometer.

Step six

Let the mixture come to a bubble and watch the color. It takes about 10 minutes to thicken up and turn a nice golden color.I swirl the contents of the pan by shaking the pan which is my version of stirring without a utensil.

Step seven

Take the sauce off the heat, pour it into a jar and set it on the counter to let it thicken up.It takes about 2 hours to get to the right consistency.

Look at that delicious caramel sauce.

Time to spoon some over ice cream.

I need more.

Perfect.

I hope you enjoyed this bourbon caramel sauce recipe as much as I enjoyed it on my ice cream.

Other delicious sauces

• Strawberry
• Cherry
• Rhubarb

And as always, may all your dishes be delish!

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