Salted Butterscotch Sauce

Name: Salted Butterscotch Sauce
Yield: Serves 8 to 10 (Makes 1½ cups)
Ingredients: 1 cup packed (7 ounces), light brown sugar; 1/2 cup, heavy cream; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces and chilled, divided; 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2020

Desserts or Baked Goods

Sauces

A little salt brings this rich, sweet sauce into focus.

SERVES8 to 10 (Makes 1½ cups)

TIME10 minutes, plus 30 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a luscious, salty-sweet butterscotch sauce that we could drizzle over ice cream or pour over a slice of peach pie, we started by heating a mixture of brown sugar (for depth of flavor), cream, butter, and salt on the stove until it was r...

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