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Easy Toffee (Caramel) Sauce
Total time45 min
Prep15 min
Cook30 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyEasy
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Sauces and dips

ChefFatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

Easy Toffee (Caramel) Sauce

An easy homemade toffee/caramel sauce — simple to make and great for topping many desserts.

Toffee sauce — very easy. Learn this method because you'll use it on many desserts.

Ingredients

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  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 tsp butter
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 can clotted cream (qimar)
  • For more sweet sauces see: Ganache chocolate sauce
  • To make a dessert with toffee sauce see: Basbousa with toffee

Method

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  1. In a nonstick pan, put the sugar and butter and stir until they turn blond or light brown.
  2. Slowly and gradually add 1 cup of milk while stirring continuously.
  3. Add a can of ashta (clotted cream) or cream gradually, spoonful by spoonful, while stirring continuously.
  4. Reduce the heat and whisk very quickly until the mixture becomes smooth; remove from the heat after it has boiled twice.
  5. Use the toffee sauce to decorate or fill a wide variety of desserts.
  6. Fatima Zahwi Ghamloush
  7. For more sweet sauces, here is the link: How to Make Ganache Chocolate Sauce.
  8. To make a dessert with toffee sauce, here is the link: Basbousa with Toffee

Recipe tags

Sauces and dipsInternationalVegetarianGluten freeNut freeEgg freeEasyBalanced time

Notes and serving ideas

  • Ganache chocolate sauce
  • Basbousa with toffee

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Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch

If you see a recipe written as poetry, it’s surely Fatima Zahoui Ghamlouch—known as Umm Badr—who posted it. Between mawawil and rhymed prose, her rice dishes arrive effortlessly and win the admiration of everyone in our group.

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