My easy recipe for Sticky Toffee Sauce will take you less than 15 minutes to prepare and uses just 5 ingredients. You will find many ways to use this easily made sauce that is smooth, sweet, creamy and so delicious.
In a medium saucepan, combine butter, heavy cream, light-brown sugar, and salt. Heat over low, stirring, until sugar has dissolved, about 2 minutes. Simmer mixture over medium heat until reduced to about 2 1/2 cups, 8 to 12 minutes. If desired, reheat sauce over low before serving.
Tips for success and FAQs:
This Sticky Toffee Sauce is so delicious that it is worth making a batch and storing some in individual containers in the freezer. That way, you have a sauce that you can bring out at short notice to pour over a cake, pancakes or ice cream. If frozen in individual portions, you can use just as much as you want.
Store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 4 days. Stir it well as you reheat it.
Be sure that the sauce is cold before storing. Store it in airtight, freezer-safe containers for up to 3 months. Leave a small gap at the top of the containers as the sauce will expand as it freezes. Be sure to label and date it as it can be difficult to identify frozen items. To use it, defrost it ideally in the fridge, but if you don’t have the time, on the kitchen bench.
Reheat in a saucepan on the stove over low heat. Alternatively, use a microwave in 20 second increments, stirring in between, until it is warm, being careful to not burn it.
Ingredients in this recipe:
Please see the recipe card further along in the post for exact quantities of ingredients and the full method.
Light brown sugar – adds sweetness, colour and caramel flavour.
Thickened cream – also known as whipping cream or heavy cream, it has a milk fat percentage of at least 35%.
Vanilla extract – use good quality, naturally extracted from the vanilla bean, not a synthetically flavoured essence.
Butter – to add richness and silkiness. I use unsalted as I like to add some salt to the sauce.
Sea salt flakes – optional, but works so well with the delicious Toffee Sauce.
Easy Homemade Toffee Sauce Recipe
FAQ
What’s the difference between caramel and toffee sauce?
What is toffee syrup made of?
What is toffee made of?
What’s the difference between toffee and butterscotch?
How do you make a toffee sauce?
Place the heavy cream, brown sugar, salt and butter in a medium sauce pan over medium heat and let the brown sugar dissolve completely, stirring as little as possible to avoid the sugar granules from splashing up the sides of the pan (this will result in a grainy toffee sauce). Once it’s dissolved increase the temperature to medium high.
What makes a toffee sauce different?
However, it’s the type of sugar and how the ingredients come together that make a toffee sauce different. In caramel, we use white sugar, whereas toffee sauce uses light brown or dark brown sugar. The high molasses content in this sugar imparts a deeper, more rounded flavour profile to toffee sauce, whilst also deepening the colour.
What is my toffee sauce?
My Toffee Sauce recipe is the perfect sauce to add to your scrapbook of well-loved recipes. It has an intense buttery caramel flavour that’s both rich and sweet in flavour. Serve your toffee sauce warm or let it chill in the fridge to a spoonable consistency. If you eat it by the spoonI won’t tell!
How do you make Golden toffee sauce?
Few things are as irresistible as a gloriously golden toffee sauce. Ludicrously moreish and rich with a deep caramel flavour, this simple yet versatile sauce is a real crowd-pleasing treat. Place the cream, sugar and butter in a saucepan over a medium heat and let the sugar dissolve completely. CAUTION: boiling sugar is extremely hot.