Name: Homemade Caramels
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 cup + 1 tbsp Butter; 1 1/4 cups Sugar; 1 1/4 cups Brown Sugar; 1 cup Corn Syrup; 1 cup + 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream; 1 tsp Vanilla

Homemade Caramels

Homemade Caramels, a tried and true, easy to make family recipe for Homemade Caramels that everyone looks forward to at Christmas time!

Prep30 minutes

Total30 minutes

Published 22 Dec 2025

A tried and true, easy to make family recipe for Homemade Caramels that everyone looks forward to at Christmas time!

Homemade Caramels with Heavy Cream

I am so thrilled with the new schedule I’ve made for myself. I’ve changed it more times than minutes in a day, but I think I’ve finally arrived to sustainable!

I have found that doing as much as I possibly can on Monday helps make room for interruptions and unexpected things the rest of the week. In other words, when I think I’ve planned ahead… I need to plan ahead farther. You know as well as I do that time flies. I blink and another day has passed! As soon as I started taking advantage of what I thought was extra time at the beginning of the week, it really aligned things nicely so I am not rushed and stressed at the end of the week.

What You’ll Need

1 cup + 1 tbsp Butter

1 1/4 cups Sugar

1 1/4 cups Brown Sugar

1 cup Corn Syrup

1 cup + 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream

1 tsp Vanilla

How to Make Homemade Caramels

Line a 9 x 13 pan with aluminum foil. Use entire 1 tbsp butter to grease the foil.

In a large, deep sauce pan over medium heat combine 1 cup butter, 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1 1/4 cups brown sugar, 1 cup corn syrup, and 1 cup heavy cream.

Stir constantly until sugar is dissolved and butter is melted. Bring to a boil, but not a rolling boil. Slowly stir in additional 1 cup heavy cream.

Cook without stirring until candy thermometer reads 240 degrees.

Remove from heat and stir in 1 tsp vanilla.

Pour into prepared pan. Do not scrape sides of the sauce pan where crystals have formed. Scraping bottom and partial sides to get remaining liquid is okay.

Let stand until firm.

Lift out of the pan and peel foil off. Cut into oblong pieces, wrap individually in waxed paper or candy foils, and twist ends to close.

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