Easy Toffee Sauce (2024)

With just 5 ingredients, this easy Toffee Sauce is irresistible with a deep caramelised flavour and a smooth, velvety consistency. In under 15 minutes, you can have a jar of this luxurious sauce to drizzle over everything!

Simple-to-make, everyday dessert sauces are the key to elevating your dessert game. Whether it be a Hot Fudge Sauce, Salted Caramel Sauce or this Toffee Sauce, having a jar in the fridge on hand will be a total game changer.

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 spoon...I won't tell!

❓ What's the Difference Between Toffee Sauce and Caramel Sauce?

So, toffee sauce and caramel sauce actually contain the same core ingredients - sugar, butter and cream. 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.

With toffee sauce, all the ingredients are added together into a saucepan and heated until the sugar and butter have melted, the ingredients have emulsified together and thickened to form a toffee sauce. Whereas, with caramel sauce, the sugar is melted until amber in colour before adding the butter and then cream. It's a long process that has a couple of extra pinch points.

🧾 Ingredients Needed

With literally 3 core ingredients and 2 extra I like to add to boost flavour, this recipe could not be more basic. I've made a couple of notes regarding these staple ingredients below.

• Cream - Use heavy cream or double cream for the high-fat content. Just make sure it's at room temperature and not cold as it could cause the toffee sauce to sieze if it's cold when added.
• Butter - I recommend unsalted butter. I prefer to add salt to taste. Chop the butter into small cubes and have it at room temperature so that it melts in the saucepan quickly.
• Sugar - Brown sugar is specified in the recipe for the additional flavour imparted from the molasses. Alternatively, you can use light brown sugar too.
• Vanilla - Vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract can be used interchangeably in the recipe. The extra vanilla layers well with the sweetness of the brown sugar.
• Salt - A half teaspoon of flaked salt is just enough to balance the sweetness of the sauce. I'm a lover of the sweet/salty combo, but if you'd prefer to leave out the salt then please do.

👩🏻‍🍳 How to Make

I can't wait for you to see how simple the process of making this luxurious toffee sauce is.

*Be sure to see the recipe card below for the full ingredients list & instructions!*

STEP 1. Add all the core ingredients to the pan. Add the brown sugar, butter and cream to a medium saucepan set over medium-low heat (Image 1).

Melt the sugar and butter. Whilst stirring continuously, let the butter gradually melt, the sugar dissolves and the cream warms up until the mixture is emulsified well (Images 2 & 3).

STEP 2. Increase the heat for the sauce to thicken. Once the butter, sugar and cream have fully emulsified then increase the heat to medium and bring the sauce to a bubble for 2-3 minutes until the sauce has thickened (Image 4).

You'll know that the toffee sauce is thick enough when it coats the back of a spoon (Image 5).

STEP 3. Add the vanilla and salt. Remove the toffee sauce from the heat and stir in the vanilla bean paste and flaked salt. Mix in well (Images 6 & 7).

Pour the sauce into a bowl or glass jar (Image 8 below).

🥣 How To Serve

The smell in itself is so enticing. But one lick of a spoon and you'll be totally taken by how delicious this toffee sauce is. Be careful though- wait until it's cooled a bit before being tempted with a lick as any type of toffee or caramel sauce will burn when piping hot.

Drizzle over any type of dessert. Here are some examples:

• Mascarpone Ice Cream
• San Sebastian Cheesecake
• Chocolate Brownies
• Banana Bread
• Apple Pear Pie
• French Apple Tart
• Traditional Crêpes

📋Recipe FAQs

❄️ Storage and Freezer Instructions

To store: Cool the toffee sauce fully to room temperature before refrigerating in an airtight jar or sealable container for up to 2 weeks.

To freeze: Once cooled to room temperature, spoon sauce into individual portions into sealable containers and freeze for up to two months. Thaw at room temperature.

🍮 More Caramel Flavoured Recipes

Easy Toffee Sauce

Made with just five ingredients in under ten minutes, this easy to make English Toffee Sauce should be a staple in your household.

Servings: 16 servings

Calories: 134kcal

All recipes are developed and tested in Metric grams. I strongly recommend that you bake using digital scales for a more accurate result. I have provided a conversion to US customary in the recipe but please note that I haven’t tested using this method.

Nutrition

Calories: 134kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 0.5g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 32mg | Sodium: 81mg | Potassium: 27mg | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 394IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 19mg | Iron: 0.1mg