A quick and easy recipe for 4-ingredient date caramel sauce made from Medjool dates. Perfect as a dip or topping for healthy treats.
We all know I love Medjool dates. You can eat them plain or stuffed with nut butter as a snack but I also love to use them in both sweet and savory recipes.
The Perfect Healthy Dip for Apples
This date caramel is sweet and delicious. It definitely still has sugar, but I love that the dates are able to provide the rich sweet caramel flavor along with fiber and a host of other vitamins and minerals. Medjool dates are a great source of potassium, copper, magnesium, vitamin B6, niacin, calcium, iron and vitamin K.
4 Ingredient Real Food Caramel
It’s too good to resist. And I love that it’s made with real food, simple ingredients. Added bonus, there’s no heavy cream or butter involved so this caramel is dairy-free and vegan. Boom!
medjool dates – make sure you get Medjool dates, which are a fresh fruit, not dried! You’ll find them in the produce section of your grocery store. Your dates should be soft, not hard. If they are dry or hard, you can soak them in water for about 30 minutes, drain and then use them in the recipe.
sea salt – just a touch, to bring the flavors together!
vanilla extract – a flavor enhancer.
unsweetened almond milk – you can use store-bought or make your own almond milk.
Add all ingredients (starting with ¾ cup almond milk) into a high powered blender or food processor and blend until mixture is smooth and there are no date chunks detectable.
Add more almond milk, 1-2 Tablespoons at a time, if needed to help the blending process or to thin the caramel.
Use immediately or store in the fridge for later.
Notes
Recipe works best fresh, soft medjool dates. If dates are dry or hard, you can soak them in water for about 30 minutes, drain and then use them in the recipe.
If you’re using the smaller deglet noor dates, you’ll need to use more! This is something you can play around with to get the caramel sauce thickness you’re looking for.
Very yummy! I’ll see if my non DF GF guests like it tonight. Will serve on Guittard dark chocolate sorbetto. Recipe notes: I found an immersion blender to be easiest and most successful blending option (no high speed blender here). Also do not tolerate nuts, so subbed 1/2 cup oat milk and 1/2 cup coconut milk for almond milk.
Yay!! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed this caramel sauce, Jaimee. Thanks so much for trying it out and coming back to leave a review. I really appreciate it!
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Very yummy! I’ll see if my non DF GF guests like it tonight. Will serve on Guittard dark chocolate sorbetto. Recipe notes: I found an immersion blender to be easiest and most successful blending option (no high speed blender here). Also do not tolerate nuts, so subbed 1/2 cup oat milk and 1/2 cup coconut milk for almond milk.
So glad you loved this recipe, Frances. Thanks for making it and for coming back to share your notes. I so appreciate it!!
This is amazing! I made oatmeal with spiced roasted apples, pepitas and walnuts, and oh my gosh…. It was a next level bowl of oats!
Yay!! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed this caramel sauce, Jaimee. Thanks so much for trying it out and coming back to leave a review. I really appreciate it!
I would love to try this but don’t have almond milk. Would regular cow milk work?
Hey Kelly- yes, regular milk will work.
It was absolutely amazing. I wold defintly make this again. Thank you!
Yay!! So glad you enjoyed this caramel sauce. Thanks for the review, Mark!
How long will this last in the refrigerator? Thank you
It should last about a week in the fridge!