How to Create Quick Homemade Butterscotch Dessert Sauce

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The greatest sauces can be the easiest to create. This butterscotch sauce is flexible and can be made in advance for parties or gifts. Decorate a bottle with the sauce and put it into a gift basket. You can serve this as part of a dessert buffet. It can be poured on top of almost anything from pies, cakes and ice cream to apples, nuts or croissants. Breakfast, brunch, lunch or dinner.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

1/4 c butter
1/4 c light brown sugar
2 tbsp light corn syrup
heavy-bottomed sauce pan
pot holders
non-stick spoon or wooden spoon

Step 1

pour

Start with a heavy-bottomed sauce pan so that the pan is sturdy enough for the heat of the sugar. You want to also have pot holders nearby incase the handle warms up. Carefully combine butter, light brown sugar and light corn syrup in a heavy-bottomed saucepan.
Step 2

boil

Heat gently over low heat. In a continous motion, stir the mixture constantly and slowly. You don't want to splash or create bubbles. When the light brown sugar fully dissolves, the sauce will become clear. Then bring to a boil and remove from the heat immediately so it will not burn.
Step 3

vanilla cake

Pour the hot sauce either into a container to cool down or into a dish to serve warm. This can be served hot over bread pudding immediately or cooled down for a few hours and swirled into fresh ice cream. It is great on the side in a gravy boat for guests to drizzle more for each bite!

Tips & Warnings

This is a very flexible sauce!!! Get creative...pumpkin pie filling with butterscotch and brown sugar pecans...chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and this great sauce!!! It all works.
Sugar is VERY hot when boiling.
Make sure the handle of the pot it away from the edge of the stove and be very careful. It can even start fires.

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