This easy, healthy-ish vegan caramel sauce is perfect as a dessert sauce or as an apple dip - made with five ingredients in just five minutes!
Vegan, dairy-free, paleo-friendly and delicious?
This five-minute vegan caramel sauce is rich and flavorful and can be made in just 5 minutes dairy-free and paleo-friendly, it is good enough to eat with a spoon straight from the jar! Use it as a caramel apple dip or drizzle it over almost anything - from breakfast items like oatmeal, yogurt and waffles - to your favorite desserts or baked goods. Better yet this plant-based caramel sauce is healthy and delicious - and comes together in a snap. It can be made with either tahini or for the Paleo-friendly route cashew butter - both work really well. Cashew butter imparts a more traditional flavor and viscosity, while tahini gives your sauce a delicious little twist and a more pourable consistency.
Enjoy vegan caramel sauce over nice cream, and so much more...
It is incredibly easy to use this sauce to add some indulgence to everything, including some of our favorite gluten free recipes and desserts like my friend Jerry James Stone's Chocolate Nice Cream recipe - a dairy-free alternatives to ice cream - or my Grain-Free Paleo Apple Crisp. Better yet, use it to make these Vegan Gluten Free Caramel Apple Cupcakes. No, seriously...this just may be your new favorite topping on everything!
Dairy-Free Nice Cream
Vanilla, Strawberry or Double Chocolate dairy-free Nice Cream uses bananas as the base. While there may be tons of recipes for Nice Cream in the universe, these are my go-to favorites. You can easily include add-ins to these base flavors or make easy substitutions by swapping frozen raspberries or blueberries for the strawberries.
Coconut Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
If you’d like a non-dairy ice cream recipe without banana as the base, check out this creamy Coconut Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. It's made with coconut milk, so it’s dairy-free and Paleo-friendly too. Be sure to look for full-fat, plain canned coconut milk to ensure a rich and creamy texture.
Fabulous Grain Free Paleo Apple Crisp Recipe
This Grain-Free Paleo Apple Crisp recipe is so easy to put together and so delicious, no one will miss the grains! It’s sweet and delicious, loaded with sugary-tart apple flavor, Paleo-friendly. Try mixing it up by using fresh mixed berries, peaches or apricots and you will find it equally delicious. Swap coconut oil for butter for a completely dairy-free alternative.
Vegan Gluten Free Caramel Apple Cupcakes
Fall flavors are all the rage these days. While pumpkin may be number one, these Caramel Apple Cupcakes are full of crisp and juicy apples, cinnamon, and the rich and satisfying taste of caramel. They are apple, spice, and always nice!
Vegan caramel sauce -5 minutes and five simple ingredients:
- pure maple syrup
- creamy cashew butter or tahini
- coconut oil
- vanilla bean paste or extract
- tsp sea salt
Storing your easy vegan caramel sauce
You can store your unused caramel sauce in a sealed container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. While the sauce may be good longer than 1 week, it frequently begins to lose texture and flavor the longer it is stored.
Five-Minute Vegan Caramel Sauce
Ingredients
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- ½ cup creamy cashew butter or tahini
- ⅓ cup coconut oil
- 2 ½ teaspoon vanilla bean paste or extract
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Whisk all ingredients together in a small saucepan over medium heat. Once the mixture begins to bubble, reduce heat to medium low and cook for 5 minutes, whisking often.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool fully, stirring occasionally. Serve and enjoy!
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Want more caramel goodness? Try this recipe from Alison at A Girl Defloured
Gluten-Free Mini Caramel Apple Cakes - A Girl Defloured
These would be perfect to make for your fall bake sale, or a fantastic dessert for adults on Halloween night. Don’t forget about Thanksgiving…and Christmas…and Tuesday (because really, they are easy enough to make on a weeknight).
Photos: Meg van der Kruik - edited by Diana Losey
Barbara Cohen says
SO yummy, thanks so very much!!
K.C. Cornwell says
So happy you love the recipe!