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5 Ingredient Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce

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If you love to coat your desserts in gooey sauces, this Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce is just for you. We love to make homemade sauces, and this butterscotch sauce is so versatile.

Drizzle it on this Gluten Free Apple Galette, or even this Creamy Chocolate Custard recipe.

Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce in a bowl with a spoon dipping in.

This sweet gooey, thick and creamy bourbon butterscotch sauce is the only topping you will need for ice cream, brownies, cakes, pies….and anything else you can think to top. I am even brainstorming a fun cocktail recipe with this sauce.

This creamy bourbon butterscotch sauce has only 5 ingredients and is ready in under 10 minutes.

You can top all sorts of things like…

Gluten Free Blond Brownies on a stack of plates with ice cream and caramel sauce on top

Gluten Free Blond Brownies with Peanut Butter Chips  One of my all time favorite recipes!

Caramel Tapioca Pudding in glass mason jars

Tapioca Pudding  the creaminess of the tapioca pudding and the butterscotch work so well together. It is a party in your mouth!

Gluten Free Chocolate Brownie on a plate with ice cream and hot fudge on top

Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies who doesn’t love a crazy moist and chocolaty brownie?

Gluten Free Bread Pudding on a plate with caramel sauce

Gluten Free Bread Pudding This is our favorite way to use up the crusts from gluten free bread!

The possibilities are endless for this delicious bourbon butterscotch sauce. And a bonus, making it with coconut milk makes it dairy free too! Butterscotch sauce is my newest sweet addiction!

What is a butterscotch sauce made of?

Butterscotch sounds like it should be complicated, right? You won’t believe how easy it is to make for yourself. All you need is:

  • butter
  • brown sugar
  • vanilla
  • milk (I used coconut milk so this recipe is dairy free!)
  • bourbon

Where does butterscotch get its flavor?

The butterscotch flavor comes from the scotch or bourbon. As this recipe cooks, the alcohol cooks out so don’t worry about alcohol content, this recipe is considered non-alcoholic.

Butterscotch and caramel have a very similar cooking process. One of the main differences, besides the scotch or bourbon, is the sugar. Caramel is made with white sugar. This easy butterscotch sauce is made with brown sugar, giving it a deep rich taste.

How to make butterscotch sauce:

Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce ingredients simmering in a pot

Combine all ingredients in a saucepan. Yup, just dump them in! Bring to a boil, whisk frequently as it simmers for 5 minutes until the mixture thickens.

That is it…and it is so easy!

Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce in a bowl

Tools You Need To Make This Homemade Butterscotch Sauce Recipe:

  1. You need a good whisk to keep this sauce smooth and lump free!
  2. Thick and creamy canned full fat coconut milk. You don’t want the stuff you see in the refrigerated section!
5 Ingredient Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce

5 Ingredient Bourbon Butterscotch Sauce

Yield: 6
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

Easy creamy bourbon butterscotch sauce

Ingredients

  • 1/2 stick of butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup full fat coconut milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon bourbon

Instructions

  1. Combine all ingredients into a saucepan.
  2. Bring to boil on medium heat.
  3. Reduce heat to low when it starts to boil.
  4. Cook 5 minutes then remove from the heat.
  5. Allow to cool.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 111 Saturated Fat: 3g Sodium: 8mg Carbohydrates: 18g Sugar: 17g
**If your gluten free flour blend doesn't include Xanthan Gum, please add 1/2 to 1 teaspoon! **Please note this nutrition information is calculated by a recipe plugin and is an estimate based on the ingredients used in this recipe.
© Sandi Gaertner
Cuisine: American / Category: Dessert

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  1. Beth

    If you don’t eat it all with a spoon or a straw, ( 😉 ) should it be refrigerated? Thinking of making this for my Dad to top his nightly ice cream treat! Thanks!

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  2. Healthy World Cuisine

    I could do shots of this delicious sauce! So easy and loads of possibilities for use. Just pinned!

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  3. Natalie Ellis

    It fooks yummy! I’ve never tried a sauce made from a kind of alcohol but I guess it must suits for everything sweet xD

    Reply

  6. thewimpyvegetarian

    It’s crazy, I know, but I’ve never made butterscotch. You make it look so easy, I think I need to try it. Especially with bourbon!!

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  7. EA The Spicy RD

    This looks amazing!!! I can’t believe I never thought that scotch would be an ingredient in butterSCOTCH sauce 🙂 It’s so hard to decide which of your recipes to pair it with first~they all look so delicious!

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  9. Michelle @ Giraffes Can Bake

    Wow I can’t believe how easy and delicious this is! Can I just eat it with a spoon please

    Reply

  12. jane @ littlesugarsnaps

    Wow. I too can think of so many good uses for this sauce. And I love the use of coconut milk. I have some coconut milk sitting in my fridge right now… it needs using up and I can think of no better way than to try out your recipe right now! Great to see that little splash of bourbon in there too – it’s such a powerful flavour that you really do only need a little in a sauce like this to make all the difference.

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  22. demeter | beaming baker

    What a gorgeous looking sauce! It looks so delicious poured on top of your blond brownies too. 🙂 Love that you made this recipe out of 5 simple ingredients. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe, Sandi!

    Reply

  26. Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious

    I could see that on so many things! In addition to just drinking it with a straw. That’s OK, right?

    Reply

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