This isn’t our healthiest recipe, it falls in our “sinfully delicious” category. But sometimes treating yourself to something rich and sweet is a form of “Living Healthy”! We LOVE caramel, and when it’s candy-making season, here’s our easy homemade caramel sauce for your Vitamix blender. Use caution when opening the blender jar (open it away from you), because the sugar will actually be cooked by your high power blender — causing a thick steam and extremely hot, sticky sugar that will stick to skin! Avoid tasting this with your fingertip (we know, it will be hard!) — wait just a minute and pour it over some cold ice cream for a rich ice cream treat!

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons soft butter
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup hot evaporated milk

Preparation

1. Place the sugar, butter, and salt into blender jar.
2. For Vitamix, start at Variable/Speed 1, ramping up to Speed 10. With the blender still running, slowly add the hot evaporated milk. Blend until smooth and thick, at least several minutes.
3. For HOT caramel sauce, blend for 6 minutes at Variable Speed 10 with Vitamix before pressing stop.
4. All done! Enjoy!!

Makes 1 1/4 cups of delicious, hot caramel sauce.