Ways to use Salted Caramel Sauce

So you bought that beautiful jar of salted caramel sauce in order to help my friend Shawna and her sister Jenny support their awesome cause.  Now, what do you do with it?  Well first of all it will keep in the fridge for 2 weeks and it will also reheat nicely in the microwave for about 30 seconds (just make sure you take the lids off first!) 

One of my favorite recipes from college is Oatmeal Carmelita, mainly because our room won a baking contest with them.  We had used one of my roommate's grandma’s recipes and it wasn’t until recently that I finally found a recipe like it again!  Hope you enjoy!

Oatmeal Carmelitas

Ingredients

• 2 cups flour
• 1 3/4 cups quick-cooking oats
• 1 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cups (2 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
• 1 1/2 cups Salted Caramel Sauce
• 2 1/2 tablespoons flour

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Grease a 9 by 13-inch pan.

Combine the flour, oats, brown sugar, baking soda, salt, and softened butter in the bowl of a mixer. Mix on low until crumbly. Divide the mixture into 2 equal portions.

Press half the crumb mixture in the prepared pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove and cool slightly.

Sprinkle the chocolate chips, and chopped pecans over the cooled crust. Mix the salted caramel sauce, and flour together, and drizzle over the chocolate chips, and nuts. Top with the remaining crumb mixture.

Return to the oven and bake for an additional 15 to 20 minutes or until the crust starts to brown. Allow the pan to cool, and refrigerate it until the caramel filling is set.

Cut into bars and serve.

 

Other suggestions:

SALTED CARAMEL MILKSHAKE:

• 1 pint vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 cup milk

• 1/4 cup salted caramel sauce

Combine the ice cream, milk, and caramel sauce in a blender and blend until smooth.

 

And for that matter you could just poor it over your ice cream!

 

other uses:

Dip apples into salted caramel sauce, this definitely is a treat, especially with all those fall apples ripening soon!

Use as a sauce for your cinnamon rolls, whether it be the frozen kind or my favorite homemade cinnamon rolls, just poor it into the pan and throw your cinnamon rolls on top!

top your favorite cupcakes, cakes and brownies with a little of this sauce, it will give them that extra special touch to make them fabulous!

And of course my favorite, eat it straight from the jar!

Stay tuned, this fall during apple season, I will get you the recipe that is so easy you will be making the salted caramel sauce all the time!  Don’t forget, subscribe to our blog here so that you will automatically get those recipes sent right to your email inbox!