caramel sauce

Golden dessert topping

Caramel sauce is a sweet, golden-brown topping made by heating sugar until it melts and darkens, then combining it with butter and cream.

It ranges from pourable to thick and sticky, used on ice cream, desserts, and in coffee drinks.

She drizzled caramel sauce over the apple slices.

Unlike butterscotch, which uses brown sugar, caramel sauce starts with white sugar cooked to the point of caramelization.

Opposites
sauce sweetness/purpose

caramel saucegravy

Thickened meat drippings

meat sauce · hot sauce · soy sauce · tomato sauce · béarnaise

sauce temperature/texture tradition

caramel saucewhipped cream

Aerated dairy topping

Family

sauce, caramel, caramelize, caramelized

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G