I made another failed batch of caramel sauce. My daughter makes beautiful caramel sauce. Mine, not so much.
But I keep trying. Wasn't that a car rental slogan -- We Try Harder? I try harder each fall to make a good caramel sauce. What I will say is, I'm persistent.
Each fall I get this idea that homemade caramel sauce for dipping apple slices would be wonderful. We have all of these crisp apples from our own trees. A nice caramel dip would turn a fresh apple into dessert. Surely this year my batch will turn out. Each year it fails miserably. But I do try to fix it. This year's batch is not quite caramel sauce. It's something like a cross between brown sugar syrup (I added molasses at one point in the "fixing") and milk-less butterscotch pudding (after trying to reduce the graininess, I added more water then finally gave up and thickened it with corn starch).
See, it looks like caramel sauce. But it's really not, at all.
My family is grateful that there's any sort of sweet sauce to add to tea or for apple slices. So there's that. It also might be good as a topping for vanilla ice cream.
I'll try again in October, maybe under the tutelage of my daughter.
This is the recipe I always use: https://www.budgetbytes.com/easy-caramel-sauce/
ReplyDeleteVery good for apple slices!
Thank you, Christa. I'll check that recipe out.
DeleteDefinitely get your daughter to either watch you make it or she makes it. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteHi Cheryl,
DeleteThat sounds like a good plan.
Hey, Lili, it does sound like a good ice cream topping (or a mix-in for plain yogurt?) Don't feel badly. My mother made the best pie crust, but the gene skipped my generation, and was passed down to one of our DSs. Who could have predicted it, especially since she taught me directly how to do it. (Mine's fine, just not great like hers.) Sara
ReplyDeleteHi Sara,
DeleteI think there are just some things that some of us won't be able to master. It could be that I'm too impatient and just need to take my time. And you're right, I think this would make a good topping for ice cream or a mix-in. Thanks for the encouragement.
I also have problems making caramel sauce. We rarely eat it, so on the occasion that we do have it, I buy it. It's maybe a once every other year thing around here.
ReplyDeleteHi Kris,
DeleteA few years ago I tried to make caramel apples. At first they looked pretty good. But within hours, the caramel began pooling around the base of each apple and didn't stay on the apples themselves. Buying it does sound like a simpler idea.
Lili, that sounds like our experiences making caramel apples, too. LOL Sara
DeleteHi Sara,
Deleteit's good to know I have company in the failed caramel apples department!
I think that sounds like an excellent ice cream topping. I was at a dinner recently where someone brought apples and a caramel sauce from the grocery store. There was a lot left and they didn't want it, so I brought it home. Now, every once in a while, I have it with apple slices. It's not as good as what I made many years ago, but I don't think I could do recreate that these days.
ReplyDeleteHi Live and Learn,
DeleteYour apple slices and caramel sauce sounds like such a delicious treat! Enjoy!