Caramel Sauce - A Hump-Day Science Project!

The reason this is perfect is because it's SO easy to make, and you can pour it on just about anything for a perfect Hump-Wednesday celebration! If you saw my PB&J post this is what I used it for...

To see the method with step-by-step photos JUMP...

Caramel Sauce

This is what you need:

• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons water
• 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/8 cup bourbon - or whiskey 

Take a SUPER clean sauce pan, and a stainless steel whisk.

CAUTION: When working with melted sugar any foreign particulates like tiny pieces of lint that get introduced will cause the sugar molecules to crystallize - NEVER USE A WOODEN SPOON! There's a LOT more science to how sugar melts and changes based on heat temperatures, but for the sake of caramel sauce it's pretty basic.

Add your sugar and water to a sauce pan and begin heating over med to high heat...

Sugar starting to melt

Keep stirring with your whisk as the sugar continues to heat and starts changing color...

Sugar begin to turn golden

The darker you burn your sugar, the stronger your caramel sauce will be... I like mine pretty dark...

Sugar almost dark enough

And at that perfect moment when your sugar is reaching the color you want have your cream ready to pour in...

Adding cream to melted/burned sugar

When you add the cream a major reaction will happen... the whole pan will turn into a cloud of gooey stuff...

The cream taking off with the melted sugar

This is when you continue stirring like crazy as the cream heats and it all starts to melt together into a perfect caramel sauce...

See how bubbly and gooey it is?

Keep stirring with your whisk...

Time to pull it off the flame

Once its all bubbly and starting to all meld together, pull it off the heat, add the booze and keep stirring...

Caramel sauce ready to cool

Because it's so hot it will seem a tad thin, but as it cools it will begin to thicken into a perfect caramel sauce... see how beautifully it drizzles over the PB&J Cake ...

Drizzling Caramel on Cake

It turned out SO perfect and it was SO delicious...

Let's EAT!