Paleo Caramel Sauce

This Paleo Caramel Sauce is made with coconut milk and coconut sugar for a delicious, silky smooth sauce that’s refined sugar-free and vegan! It’s perfect as a Paleo substitute for caramel sauce in any recipe.

Today I have something delicious to talk about: caramel sauce. Normally a sugar-filled event, right? But this one has NO refined sugar. Instead, I subbed one of my new favorite ingredients: coconut sugar.

The more I bake with coconut sugar, the more I like it. It seriously performs so similarly to granulated sugar, but it tastes more like a strong brown sugar. I’ve found that I can usually substitute it in recipes as a substitution for both the granulated sugar and the brown sugar and it works out pretty darn wonderfully.

It has a caramelized flavor naturally, and it just so happens that that flavor works absolutely perfectly when you’re making caramel. This recipe is a little different than a traditional caramel sauce recipe where you first melt and caramelize the sugar and then add the heavy cream. That process usually takes less than 10 minutes.

Instead, for this recipe, you combine the coconut milk and coconut sugar and cook them down into a thick caramel sauce. This version of making caramel takes a little bit longer, about 30-35 minutes. But, it’s more hands-off and way less stressful.

I added a scraped vanilla bean to the caramel for a hint of delicious vanilla flavor to my caramel sauce. A similar flavor could be achieved with vanilla extract, but you won’t get the gorgeous vanilla bean specks in your caramel! If you don’t want to splurge on a vanilla bean to use in this recipe, vanilla bean paste works great. One jar will last you a while.

Whip up a batch of this caramel and eat it with some ice cream, or with some ice cream. Be sure to save some though – I have a delicious recipe using this caramel coming at you on Wednesday! I can’t wait to share it. It’s to die for! For now, enjoy the paleo caramel sauce!

Drizzle your vegan caramel sauce on…

• Gluten-Free Vegan Brownies
• Paleo Apple Crumble Pie
• Paleo Vegan Pumpkin Pie
• Gluten-Free Vegan Apple Crisp

Rachel Conners

Paleo Caramel Sauce

4.78 from 9 reviews

This Paleo Caramel Sauce is made with coconut milk and coconut sugar for a delicious, silky smooth sauce that’s refined sugar-free and vegan! It’s perfect as a Paleo substitute for caramel sauce in any recipe.

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Prep Time: 3 minutes mins

Cook Time: 30 minutes mins

Total Time: 33 minutes mins

Servings: 1 1/4 cups

Ingredients

 

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• ▢ 1 14 oz. can full-fat coconut milk
• ▢ ½ cup coconut sugar
• ▢ ½ vanilla bean, split and scraped, or 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 tablespoon coconut oil
• ▢ ½ teaspoon flaky sea salt or ¼ teaspoon sea salt

Instructions

 

• In a heavy bottomed saucepan, combine the coconut milk and coconut sugar. Scrape the insides of the vanilla bean and add the seeds and pod to the mixture, if using.
• Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Once boiling, turn the heat to low and let the mixture boil slowly. Stir frequently, scraping the bottom to make sure it doesn’t burn. Continue boiling until caramel has reduced and thickened to thick, syrupy texture, about 30-35 minutes. Remember that the caramel will continue to thicken as it cools.
• Remove from heat and stir in oil, salt, and vanilla extract if using. If you used the vanilla bean, remove the pod and discard.
• Let cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally to keep the fat incorporated. Pour into a glass container.
• Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

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