Hey, y’all. 🙂
Let’s just get right to it today. 🙂
If you like caramel. Or snickers. Or chocolate. You’re going to want to get your grocery list ready as you read today. 🙂
First of all though Thank You. 🙂 Thank you for embracing my tiny little corner of the internet. Even though I’m pretty much only posting once a week and sometimes it’s like 10 days between posts right now…y’all keep reading and it means so much to me. Thank you. 🙂
Ok so have y’all ever tried to make homemade caramel sauce? Has it been a complete disaster?
With the burning sugar and trying to get it to correct temp?
Yeah, me too. Until now.
So I was going to make a special father’s day treat for Papa B and it has a bunch of steps and ingredients. I thought I’d put everything I needed on my grocery list but then got home and of course was missing an important ingredient. Caramel sauce.
SO…I tried this 5 minute microwave caramel sauce and it was to die for.
1 stick melted butter. 2 cups brown sugar. 1 cup cream.
All whisked up and into the microwave for 2 minute bursts.
Cook for 2 minutes at a time testing at the end of each 2 minute burst. Just drop a little on a piece of wax paper. You’re going for the color next to the spoon. This took 6 minutes in my microwave. Don’t actually stir it between the 2 minute bursts. Just kind of swirl the bowl around real good a few times (I used an 8 cup glass Pyrex measuring cup). Then just dip your spoon into the caramel to get a little out to test. Go by color not thickness. Trust me on this. It thickens up A LOT as it sits and cools down. When it gets to the color by the spoon up there it will definitely still be more runny than you think it should be. DON’T cook it more or you’ll end up making caramel chew instead of sauce.
After 6 minutes.
Even if the next recipe hadn’t turned out…all of the work would have been worth it just for this liquid ‘gold’. It’s that good. And easy. And no burnt sugar ruining pans and smelling up the place. 🙂
So then it was time to make the actual treat.
Snickers cake. 🙂
I followed Brown Eyed Baker’s recipe just subbing gfjules for the flour.
Look at my pics and captions but follow that link and go to her site for the actual recipe. 🙂
Chocolate cake cooling down while I get started on the other steps.
This cake recipe is unreal. Even if you don’t like Snickers or any of these other toppings the cake recipe alone is worth making and toping with a toping you do like. The only thing I changed from her recipe is I didn’t use coffee as we’re not coffee people. I just used an equal amount of hot water.
😉
Up next nougat…
Sugar. Evaporated milk. Butter. Vanilla.
Marshmallow cream. Peanut butter.
Stirred up and cooling down while moving on to the next step.
Me too, Hill. Me too. 🙂
Like this crazy but oh so worth it step-y cake recipe. 😉
On to the next step…
Cream cheese. Butter. Powdered sugar. Caramel sauce. Vanilla.
Caramel buttercream icing. Yum. 🙂
Let’s put this cake together now shall we?
Topping station. I forgot to take pics of the last bowl on the right. It’s chocolate ganache. Just Hershey’s bars and heavy cream.
Completely cooled cake.
Covered in nougat.
Covered in caramel sauce.
Covered in caramel buttercream.
Topped with salted peanuts and drizzled with chocolate ganache.
Devine. 🙂
And proving yet again there is very little you can’t make gluten – free. But you should definitely use gfjules to get you there. It just works. Perfectly. Every time. 🙂 And no…since someone did ask…I do not have any affiliation with gfjules at all. In fact depending on their political leanings they might wish I’d never post their site here at all. But I paid for the products and this is my space. I’ll post about them whenever I want. The main reason I keep making sure the link is posted is because until you try it and compare it to whatever you’re using now you can’t imagine how much easier this flour will make your gluten – free baking life. It’s never hit and miss and the taste is second to none. Gluten – free is hard in this gluten – filled world. I want to do my little part to help make it a little easier for those of us who have no choice.
Anyway…
Do y’all have big father’s day plans?
Happy father’s day to the best dad 2 girls could ever ask for. Papa B, you’re the best and as I always say…we hit to the super duper parental lottery with you and Mama B. 🙂
Y’all have a great weekend and I’ll see y’all soon. 🙂