This Vegan Caramel Sauce is made with only 3 ingredients! Healthier, all natural ingredients, and goes perfectly with everything you pour it over!!
The Christmas season means many things. Several viewings of Elf. Lots of eggnog and hot chocolate drinking beside the Christmas tree. Most prevalent it seems, is the lots of sweets – and I mean lots. ‘Tis the season for overindulging in sweet things! So when you feel like you’re in need of a sweet craving this holiday (you will), make this Vegan Caramel Sauce.
Easy, creamy, thick and dreamy. Also? All natural ingredients, way healthier than store-bought caramel, and so incredibly easy to make, you’ll definitely make it more than once.
So, what exactly is this Vegan Caramel Sauce made up of? All-natural sugar of your choice. That can be coconut sugar, cane sugar, organic brown sugar, sucanat, date sugar.
Honestly, the possibility are endless. This recipe is so customisable that it’ll fit your every needs.
Next on this list is the coconut milk. Yes, I said coconut milk friends. It helps to get the caramel thick and creamy, while keeping it vegan. There are a million amazing things to say about coconut milk but I’ll stick to one for right now: perfect heavy cream substitute.
Lastly, sea salt. It’s that pinch that helps to elevate all of the previous ingredients. I added only a ¼ teaspoon, but feel free to add up to ¾ teaspoon of sea salt if you desire a salted caramel.
Salted caramel really is the best. I wanted to keep mine neutral so that you could alter it to your liking.
You could add vanilla extract, or scrape a vanilla bean for a heightened flavour. You could also add ground lavender, or even use fleur de sel instead of sea salt. That last one sounds divine!
You can use it as fruit dip. You can drizzle it over pancakes. You can stir it into your coffee or oatmeal. Even your batter for muffins or cupcakes at the top for a sweet swirl or banana bread. You can use it in this Salted Pretzel Caramel Bark. The possibilities are endless!
Enjoy friends! If you make this 3 Ingredient Vegan Caramel Sauce, please snap a photo and tag #jessicainthekitchen on Instagram! We’d also love it if you would leave a comment below, and give the recipe a rating! Thanks so much!
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Hi, I’m trying to switch to vegan. I thought it would be best to start with my favorites such as Carmel macchiatos. Instead of sea salt would regular salt work?
It would Millie but use less of iodized or kosher salt. I hope this helps!
Hi! This sauce looks delicious. Do you think it could be thinned with some more coconut milk/other non-dairy milk to make a glaze for sticky buns? Thanks!
Hi Melissa, thanks for reading after it’s made you can definitely thin it out with some more coconut milk. I hope this helps!
I just made this. This recipe is superb! The caramel is delicious and not nearly as coconutty as I worried it might be. Oddly, it actually kind of tastes buttery?!?! Amazing. 5 stars!
I used white sugar in my recipe because I was out of my usual golden cane sugar, and the flavour was not ruined or anything, but it did NOT look very tasty! Haha. It’s kind of a weird almost grey colour instead of the beautiful golden caramel colour that I’m used to. 100% my bad and I’ll make sure to use a golden or brown sugar in future, but I wanted to mention it in case anyone else was considering this particular foolishness. 😉
Thank you for sharing this excellent recipe!
Oh wow, thank you so much for this amazing and kind review, Lia! We’re so happy that you enjoyed the recipe!