Coconut Caramel Sauce Recipe (Vegan Caramel) - The Yummy Bowl (2024)

FAQs

What is vegan caramel made of? ›

The base for this 5-ingredient caramel is coconut cream, dates, and arrowroot starch, which are blended until creamy and smooth. This makes up the liquid ingredients, which are added to a bit of coconut sugar and cooked until glossy and just bubbly.

Combine brown sugar, butter, and milk in a saucepan and bring ingredients to a boil. Remove thickened mixture from heat before adding (optional) vanilla extract. Let the caramel cool slightly before using. The result is an impossibly rich sauce that is guaranteed to satisfy your sweet tooth.

Add flour to the sauce.

If you want to thicken your caramel sauce with flour, start by filling a measuring cup with ¼ cup (60 mL) of cold water for each cup (240 mL) of caramel sauce that you want to thicken. Mix 2 tbsp (30 mL) into the cold water. Then add the flour mixture into the thin caramel sauce.

Grainy caramel is caused by crystallization, which is easy to avoid (and can also be fixed). Caramel becomes grainy when the sugars crystallize, a process that happens when the melted sugar splashes up onto the cold sides of the pan.

Is caramel vegan? Because caramel is essentially just sugar, in its purest form, it is vegan. However, it is often mixed with dairy cream, butter, or milk, which is why it's important to always check the back of store-bought caramel candy.

1) Milk, cream, and condensed milk to help make a lovely light-coloured caramel sauce to drip over your desserts. 2) Golden syrup, sugar, and molasses will provide the sweet taste caramel is best known for. 3) Oil and butter help give your caramel a smoother, softer texture which makes coating things i.e., nuts easier.

Wet caramel is made by combining sugar and a liquid and cooking them together, while dry caramel is made from just sugar, heated in a dry pan until it liquefies and browns.

It is possible to make caramel sauce without butter, but you'll need something instead, and that's likely to be another fat. For example here's one that uses lots of cream. Vegan recipes of course do without butter. Some use a butter substitute but many seem to use coconut oil, coconut cream, and/or coconut milk.

To thin caramel, just add some cream or water over heat. Melt caramel loaves in the oven. You can also add corn syrup or lemon juice to caramel sauces to prevent them from crystallizing.

The water evaporates, leaving sugar crystals behind. If even one sugar crystal falls back into the pan of cooking caramel, it starts a chain reaction of sugar crystals and the entire pan will harden. The result? Gross, grainy caramel that is unusable in most recipes.

How do you fix caramel that didn't set? ›

If caramels are too soft, that means the temperature didn't get high enough. Again place the caramel back into a sauce pan with a couple of tablespoons of water and heat to 244°F. If you don't have a candy thermometer, you can test with a cold water test.

Clear caramel is definitely a simple syrup you're looking for. If you are looking for something thicker than simple syrup stay on low heat and cook it a little longer and/or add cornstarch to the water BEFORE BOILING. Cornstarch dissolves best it cool liquids.

In a medium saucepan, combine the brown sugar, vegan butter, salt and coconut milk. Bring to a simmer over low heat, whisking constantly. Once the caramel is simmering, cook until slightly thickened, about 8-10 minutes.

The main ingredient in caramel is sugar. However, depending on the recipe you use, you may have to incorporate butter, heavy cream, water, or corn syrup as additional ingredients. High-quality, real caramel is always made with three basic ingredients and those are sugar, heavy cream, and butter.

Caramel Frappuccino

Note: you may notice the Starbucks menu offers a Caramel Frappuccino and a Caramel Ribbon Frappuccino; the latter is not vegan as it includes a dairy-based Dark Caramel Sauce in the mix.

Case in point: the caramel syrup is vegan but the caramel sauce is not. Here is everything you need to know about these flavor-enhancers so you can order with confidence the next time you stroll up to a Starbucks.