Food & Cooking Recipes Dessert & Treats Recipes Caramel Sauce 3.6 (282) Close Yield: 1 cake Caramel is sugar that has been taken just to the edge of burning. Caramel's color reveals the extent to which it is cooked. The palest form is just concentrated sugar syrup. The next stage is golden, followed by amber and dark. This caramel sauce makes for the perfect dessert topping. Directions Combine ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until thickened to desired consistency.