Name: Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ¼ cup (50 mL) salted butter; 2 Tbsp (30 mL) water; ½ cup less 1 Tbsp (100 mL) granulated sugar, for the caramel; 2 cups (500 mL) whipping cream; 2 Tbsp (30 mL) superfine sugar, for the ice cream; 5 egg yolks

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
55 min

Appears in

Caramel

By Trish Deseine

Published 2006

About

It was a revolution when one of the main commercial ice-cream brands in France brought out a salted butter caramel ice cream. At my house this completely transformed apple pies and compotes, and served as inspiration for creating dozens of sauces to pour over it: butterscotch, chocolate fudge, and so on. But most of the time, I serve it on its own, with maybe just a few cookies. It used to be that only the top-end-of-the-market ice-cream brands had such fashionable flavors, but commercial s