Homemade Caramel Sauce

Yield: approximately 2 cups

 Quick Homemade Caramel Sauce is thick, gooey, and made with just five ingredients in five minutes, perfect for apples, brownies, ice cream, or as a gift!

Ingredients

1/2 cup (1 stick) salted butter
1 cup brown sugar

2/3 cup heavy cream

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions

In a medium saucepan set over medium-low to medium heat, melt butter. Mix in brown sugar and stir for 2 minutes. Mix in heavy cream and stir for 2 more minutes. Remove pan from heat and stir in vanilla and salt until well incorporated.

Pour hot caramel sauce in a jar and allow to cool completely. Store in the refrigerator for up to a month. 

PS 
Be sure your saucepan is deep enough to account for the bubbling caramel that may rise up the sides of the pot as it cooks. The caramel sauce will be thin when it is done cooking, but it will thicken up nicely at room temperature, and even more so once chilled.