Friends, you’re only ten minutes from peanut butter and caramel euphoria. Ten minutes is all it takes to make this Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce!
I am pretty much obsessed with peanut butter and have been since childhood. Our family to-go-to breakfast was peanut butter and jelly toast with bananas. I craved this most of my pregnancies and shocking that all of my kids except one are huge peanut butter fan. So you can imagine that this Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce is a massive hit in our home.
Jersey claims to hate peanut butter, yet her favorite cookies, No Bake Cookies are made with peanut butter and she loves my Chocolate Peanut Butter Fondue. So I think she just hates PB&J’s.
My husband loves peanut butter as well, in fact, his late-night indulgence includes peanut butter, maple syrup and pecans heated up in a bowl and devoured with a spoon. I will have to admit it is a pretty amazing combination.
I wanted a peanut butter caramel sauce for this tart Chocolate Peanut Butter Caramel Tart I was making, as I knew it would be the perfect finishing touch! After two failed attempts trying others recipes, I decided to just adapted one of my caramel sauce recipes and see if I could make it happen and guess what? I did.
I used my White Chocolate Caramel Sauce recipe, one of my favorite sauces EVER! I just substituted the white chocolate with peanut butter and I got the perfect caramel sauce. What I love about this Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce the most is that it only takes 10 minutes total to make. Serve it over ice cream, with pretzels, cookies or even as a fondue your family, friends and even your acquaintances will love this sauce, devouring every last drop.
Before I move onto the recipe I feel like you should be fairly warned that this Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce is addicting. The first time I made this I immediately had to make a second batch well because I basically ate the entire first batch by myself. Hard to admit but you know what, oh well, there it is I love this caramel sauce. It is a good thing that at the time I didn’t have any ice cream in the freezer and that they only thing I could eat this caramel sauce up with were pretzels. I am afraid had I had some ice cream, I would have had to make a third batch.
While most people rave about peanut butter and chocolate being the best food combo out there, I think that caramel and peanut butter come in a close second. It’s like they were meant to be together. Honestly, friends after this making this Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce I am not sure my Peanut Butter Fudge Sauce stands a chance and that is saying a lot.
If you have 10 minutes and love peanut butter or caramel, this recipe is a must-try. Just remember what I said and make sure to have enough ingredients to make another batch just in case you eat the whole first batch. Enjoy! XOXO San
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Peanut Butter Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
- ¼ cup butter ½ stick
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons white granulated sugar
- ½ cup heavy cream
- Pinch of sea salt
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients, except for the peanut butter in a medium sauce pan, heat over medium-low heat. Let it cook, while constantly whisking for about 4 minutes. Stir in peanut butter and cook while constantly whisking for another 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat, stir and serve. This caramel sauce you can serve immediately, my preference or let it cool, and refrigerate for later.
Notes
Recipe updated from original posting date of January 2016.
Yum – thank you.
Love this recipe! Thanks for sharing!
This is pretty much the best caramel sauce EVER!!!
This sauce looks absolutely divine!
This sauce looks amazing! I can’t wait to enjoy this with my favorite desserts!
I LOVE the sound of the salty peanut butter + sweet caramel!! I must try this!
Did I miss something? How do you make ‘caramel ‘ sauce without any caramels?
This recipe is for making the caramel, but with the addition of peanut butter. I hope you enjoy!
What an amazing recipe! Thank you for sharing!
I made this into peanut butter caramel popcorn. I doubled the batch of PB Caramel, popped 2 bags of microwave popcorn, poured half the PB Caramel (so, 1 batch) over the popcorn, baked at 260F for 15 min, then let it dry. It is delicious!
This recipe is great for popcorn as it doesn’t require corn syrup, which some people aren’t a fan of.
Thank you so much! I have some PB Caramel sitting in the fridge to pour over ice cream, and some yummy PB Caramel Popcorn.
Thank you for the review, Shannon. Putting it on popcorn sounds so amazingly addictive! That is such a great idea. I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Can I substitute heavy cream with milk?
Hi Samna! I am not sure if using milk would work quite as well as heavy cream in this recipe. The fat content of cream is much higher than milk, meaning that the sauce may be a lot runnier and it may not combine as well, meaning it may turn out gritty. We have onlly tested the recipe with cream so we can not be sure if it would or would not work though. If you do give it a go, please let us know how it turns out!
Used 2% milk and use vegan butter…. Boiled it 4 minutes then reduced the heat to med low….added the peanut butter stirred till it was fully combined and then simmered for 5 minutes allowed it to cool…. It was perfect!!!!!!
This recipe looks Devine…can I substitute or omit the white sugar altogether?
I am so excited to try this recipe since being in high school. The cooks made a peanut caramel sauce which they served over chocolate cake. I’ve tried seaverall times and different ways but did not get the taste I wanted. One of my main issues was adding the peanut butter after removing the saucee from heat. Thank you so much and I’m baking my cake and sauce today. Have you tried doubling the recipe?
Do you use light or dark brown sugar in this recipe?
I use light brown sugar in most recipes unless stated otherwise!
What peanut butter you use? Do you use natural 100% peanut butter or a peanut butter spread such as Reese’s creamy peanut butter? Thank you in advance.
I use Skippy creamy peanut butter.
I would like to try….poking holes in my cake, then pouring on the caramel sauce then icing with the cooked chocolate icing. Do you think that would work?
Yes, that would taste amazing!
This sounds just wonderful but I’m just a bit confused on the directions. Is the mixture suppose to get thick? Is it supposed to boil at all? If you could please clarify. Thanks so much.
This really doesn’t boil, like you boil water for noodles, more a slow rolling boil. While you are cooking over medium heat, you will be constantly stirring so that it doesn’t burn to the bottom. The mixture will thicken as it cooks. Does this help?