3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Caramel
The easiest, dreamiest peanut butter caramel. It is thick, sweet and takes just a few minutes to prepare. Use it on pancakes, ice cream, brownies or whatever your heart wants! I'm sure you will think of something!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (160g) pure maple syrup OR agave if you don't want a maple flavor
- 1/4 cup (64g) creamy natural peanut butter (mine only has salt added, almond butter works too)
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon of salt if your peanut butter has none
- water to thin if desired
Instructions
- In a small sauce pan, add all of the ingredients and turn the heat to medium. Whisk well as it warms up and the ingredients become smooth. Once it comes to a boil, whisk continuously for about a minute or so until it starts to thicken up. That's it! It happens quickly. You won't really notice how thick it is getting right away, but rather as it's cooling. It thickens really quickly with peanut butter. If using almond butter, I cook it for about 3 minutes, as it takes a tad longer to thicken up. Remove from the heat and cool for about 10 minutes. You will notice how thick it gets as it cools. After 30 minutes it is the perfect, thick caramel texture.
- Keep in mind, the longer you cook it, the thicker it will get.
- Note: this caramel will thicken even more as it sits, so just gently reheat it or add some water to thin it out some, if desired. I added a little water to mine the next day.
- To make Caramel Popcorn: Just stir the hot caramel all over popped popcorn and stir around and let cool a couple of minutes.