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Posted:4/2/2015
Updated:7/18/2018

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce

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Let’s make something awesome, shall we? Better yet, let’s take something awesome already, and make it peerless!

Butter is a beautiful thing. I don’t say it enough and it doesn’t always get the credit its due, but butter makes a lot of things… better (imagine butter on fresh toast). And brown butter is… well, that’s just even better. That nutty, caramelized, toasty flavour is pretty darn hard to beat. If you brown butter often enough you will know how it can transform a dish of steamed vegetables into something amazing. And Plain Pasta into something you can eat on its own!

So when I take brown butter and make it star in something that’s wonderful in its own right like butterscotch fudge sauce, it’s time to break out my happy dance! And it’s so easy, you will wonder why we haven’t been doing this all our lives! I even threw some bitter sweet chocolate into the mix for good measure. Trust me, you won’t ever regret making this Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce.

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge sauce. Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch sauce ever again.

I actually came up with the idea for this sauce when I was bouncing around ideas for pancake syrup flavours, in my head. I’m fairly conventional in that I love maple syrup and it’s always my first choice for pancake syrup. But I do love to experiment with homemade pancake syrup too. I also like chocolate fudge sauce and my hubs loves butterscotch sauce. So naturally, I combined the two.

My next question was, if brown butter makes a lot of things so much better… shouldn’t it, couldn’t it, wouldn’t it.. make butterscotch better? I needed to find out. And I did. And you know the answer by now.

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge sauce. Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch sauce ever again.

Browning butter is simple. But if you don’t keep an eye on it, it can quickly burn and become useless. So make sure you stick around after the butter bubbles up, stops foaming and then starts to caramelize. It’s hard to give you the exact time that it takes to achieve the proper “brownness”, but here is a visual guide for you to be able to tell when the butter will be done. If you’re using a dark saucepan, use a light coloured spoon or plate to keep track of the caramelization process as shown in the picture below. It happens very quickly (much like making caramel).

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce
The stages of Browning Butter

You can use brown butter that is at stage 2 or 3, but personally I prefer when some of the butter solids are almost burnt. In terms of taste, there isn’t a huge difference between the last two stages, but there is definitely a difference between stage 2 and 4/5. The nutty flavour is far more pronounced at stage 4/5 and the solids are also slightly bitter, but perfect for this sauce.

You will start to smell the hazelnutty, toasty flavour around stage 2, which gets stronger as you go. And that will manifest in the actual taste as well.

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge sauce. Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch sauce ever again.

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Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce

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Ingredients:

  • 1 stick of unsalted butter 115g / 4oz
  • ½ cup packed light brown sugar
  • 3 tbsp corn syrup
  • ½ cup whipping cream
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 oz bittersweet chocolate

Instructions:

  • Melt the butter in a saucepan, over medium heat. Once the butter has melted, continue to keep it on medium heat to make brown butter, but stir frequently and keep an eye on it.
  • Check the colour of the butter solids frequently until the solids turn dark brown with a few black flecks (that's almost burnt butter).
  • At this stage, immediately add the sugar, corn syrup, salt and stir to combine. Add the cream soon afterwards, and reduce the heat to medium low. Let the sugar dissolve and the sauce come to a boil. Let it bubble (boil) gently for about 5 minutes, while stirring frequently.
  • Add the chocolate and vanilla and stir until the chocolate has completely melted.
  • Store in a glass bottle/jar with an air-tight lid. Let it cool slightly and pour over whatever you like.
  • Once the sauce cools, it does thicken. To make it pourable again, just microwave the jar (without the lid) for about 10-15 seconds, place the lid back on and give it a shake.
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Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge sauce. Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch fudge sauce ever again.

So what did I do with this sauce? Or more accurately, what didn’t I do with it?

This was drizzled on
Pancakes,
Waffles,
Toast,
Ice cream,
Strawberries,
and Mr K even had it with his oatmeal for breakfast.

Aaaand, we also did this!

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce - Butterscotch Fudge sauce but BETTER! Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge sauce. Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch sauce ever again.

Yep, a chocolate bundt cake, covered in a luscious layer of this fantastic brown butter butterscotch chocolate fudge sauce! Don’t say I didn’t warn you! 
(Side note: recipe for the bundt cake is not included in this post. This post is all about the sauce. But if you are interested in the cake recipe, do leave a comment below or send me a message and I will put it up).

This sauce is truly incredible. Do you see those beautiful specks of milk solids on the wall of that glass jar in that picture above? That’s the BEST part about this sauce. Those specks are what give this sauce that nutty, toasty flavour that you will absolutely love! This could very well be the perfect and the most indulgent fudge sauce I’ve ever had. The small amount of bitter sweet chocolate dulls the sweetness a little bit and adds another dimension of flavour obviously. But you can easily omit that from the recipe if you so prefer.

This brown butter butterscotch sauce goes with everything! It’s like the little black dress of desserts! 🙂

And can I tell you something else? I made this chocolate bundt cake, just so that I could pour this gorgeous fudge sauce all over it. (No, I’m not kidding. Not even trying to).

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce - Butterscotch fudge sauce but BETTER! Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch sauce ever again.

And then cut a nice big slice like this.

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge Sauce-6561

And then pour some more sauce over it.

Brown Butter Butterscotch Chocolate Fudge sauce. Learn to make your butterscotch sauce even BETTER! Once you try this, you won't want regular butterscotch sauce ever again.

Over the top? You betcha.
And under and around and on the sides too! 🙂 You know what, just take that piece of cake and dunk it in the sauce. I dare you not to! 🙂

And this insanely delicious butterscotch fudge sauce also went over this Buttermilk Pancake Ice Cream with Blackberry Chips!

Buttermilk Pancake Ice Cream with Blackberry chips

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  1. Linda says

    August 20, 2018 at 22:43

    5 stars
    I made this tonight and we had it on ice cream sundaes. it is really really good! I Have made many ice cream sauces in my life and have a few favorites, but this one is unique and is our new favorite!

    Reply
  2. Jennifer A Stewart says

    June 16, 2015 at 10:16

    Beautiful sauce, gorgeous photos, and I love the plate with the progression of the butter browning! Can’t wait to make this and add it to my food!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      June 17, 2015 at 11:04

      Thank you Jennifer! 😀 I make this far too often at home now… hahaha!!

      Reply
  3. Anna | ANNAdventure says

    April 30, 2015 at 06:14

    Well, that just looks decadent and delicious!!!! I cannot wait to try!

    Reply
  4. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

    April 12, 2015 at 18:04

    I think I could eat this sauce by the spoonful! WOW.

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 13, 2015 at 00:18

      Thank you Thalia! 😀 Don’t tell anyone, but that’s what we did too!! (Hahaha!! Had half left over after pouring it on the cake & couldn’t resist)

      Reply
  5. Farida says

    April 9, 2015 at 08:25

    Well explained and great photos, I’m gonna try it! pinned!

    Reply
  6. Jhuls | The Not So Creative Cook says

    April 9, 2015 at 05:34

    Wow! This looks fantastic, Dini.

    Reply
  7. Ashlyn @ Belle of the Kitchen says

    April 6, 2015 at 11:32

    This sauce looks absolutely drinkable, Dini! YUM!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 7, 2015 at 10:17

      Thank you Ashlyn! 😀 I did have to resist the urge to just eat it by the spoonful…

      Reply
  8. andy says

    April 4, 2015 at 23:03

    Ohhhhhh boy !!! Did I die ?? That sauce looks so sinful !!
    Awesome !!

    Reply
  9. Jess@CookingisMySport says

    April 4, 2015 at 21:01

    There are so many naughty, sinful things I could with this sauce.

    And yes, I know how that sounds. But…wow. This is AWESOME. 😀

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 7, 2015 at 10:16

      I completely get what you’re saying. 😀 I felt the same way!!!

      Reply
  10. Kristen @ A Mind Full Mom says

    April 4, 2015 at 14:20

    Thank you for including the stages of caramel–that is so helpful.

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 7, 2015 at 10:07

      Thank you Kristen 🙂

      Reply
  11. Faye Wilkerson says

    April 4, 2015 at 11:56

    a great looking sauce. Would be good on almost anything.

    Reply
  12. Laura says

    April 4, 2015 at 10:24

    Oh my! If I took in a cake covered in this sauce, the office would go nuts for it!

    Reply
  13. Julianna says

    April 4, 2015 at 00:31

    Just gorgeous! 😀

    Reply
  14. Ganu says

    April 3, 2015 at 14:09

    5 stars
    :O I can’t believe how amazing this looks and how easy it is to make!! Thank you dini for once again giving us delicious recipes! Can’t wait to try this with ice cream Hehe xD

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 7, 2015 at 09:48

      Yes! It is insanely easy and tastes amazing on Ice cream 🙂 You can have it on the next Ice cream Sundae 🙂

      Reply
  15. Caroline says

    April 3, 2015 at 09:53

    Yum, that sounds so delicious! I love butterscotch, brown butter and all those flavors so this is right up my street. Must give it a go!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 7, 2015 at 09:47

      Thank you Caroline! I hope you do 🙂

      Reply
  16. Julie @ HostessAtHeart says

    April 3, 2015 at 08:47

    Oh my heavens Dini I think you’ve definitely gone over the top with this one. I can imagine it just disappearing by spoon for some reason? I will definitely be making this sauce. John is going to love it!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:56

      hahaha!!! How did you know Julie?? 😀 We finished the last bit last night, exactly like that. We were scraping the bottle (Embarrassingly!)
      Thank you Julie! Please let me know how it goes and what you and John think of it! 😀

      Reply
  17. Katie @ Recipe for Perfection says

    April 3, 2015 at 08:35

    Mmmm…. butter. I really don’t need to say any more, but I will. This looks absolutely delicious. I’d love to pour it over some homemade ice cream!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:47

      Thank you Katie! We actually did make some ice cream and poured it over it too 🙂 It definitely was a very good call!! 🙂

      Reply
  18. Michelle @ Giraffes Can Bake says

    April 3, 2015 at 08:29

    Brown butter is just the best thing ever! And oh my gosh, this sauce is insane!! I neeeeed it in my life

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:46

      Thank you Michelle! It’s so easy to make too! 🙂 I really hope you give it go, and let me know what you think? 😀 I think you would love it!

      Reply
  19. Amanda says

    April 3, 2015 at 07:41

    Holy mother of YUM! That sauce sounds, and looks, so fantastic 😀 Oh man, browned butter is so delicious, and your step by step picture is awesome. The photos in this post… just WOW!!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:44

      Thank you Amanda! 😀 Seriously you HAVE to try this sauce! My husband and I fought over the last bit just last night. hahaha!!

      Reply
  20. Kaila (GF Life 24/7) says

    April 3, 2015 at 07:16

    I love your step by step guide of browning butter, so cool! The sauce looks amazing as well. Happy FF, and have a fantastic weekend. 🙂

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:42

      Thank you Kaila! 🙂 I loved doing the stages too… Especially the wonderful smell as I get to do it! I hope you have a fabulous weekend too!

      Reply
  21. Carrie Groneman says

    April 2, 2015 at 22:36

    Hello Dini! I LOVE your blog, your recipe and your little bio is amazing! I truly wish I could meet you someday, you must be fascinating with all you have just here! Please come link up next Tues evening at Wonderful Wed. Blog Hop and let me know what link # so I can feature you. Carrie, A Mother’s Shadow http://www.amothersshadow.com

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:40

      Hi Carrie! Thank you so much for your lovely words! 🙂 I would love to meet you one day too. I will definitely stop by and link up on Tuesday and thank you for inviting me 🙂

      Reply
  22. cathy says

    April 2, 2015 at 20:53

    Mmm, yum! I think I hear that cake calling my name! It looks so good! Saying hello from Foodie Fridays!
    Cathy

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:38

      Hey Cathy! Thank you! 🙂

      Reply
  23. Michelle @ A Dish of Daily Life says

    April 2, 2015 at 20:24

    5 stars
    This is some serious yumminess here, Dini!! Can I please come over for dessert?!

    Reply
    • Dini says

      April 3, 2015 at 08:38

      Thank you Michelle! 🙂 You can come over anytime!

      Reply

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