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.
YUM! Loving the idea to add this to your coffee, sounds delicious. I am glad that you are loving this recipe. Thank you so much for your review + star rating, I so appreciate it!
Everything is perfect about the colour, how did you get such a dark caramel colour ???
I added normal milk and it is very light caramel colour not like yours.. and definetly not so glossy.
This turned out amazing. I used halawy dates instead of medjool. They have a caramel-esque flavor already and they’re super soft. Since they are smaller I had to use 30 of them. I switched out the almond milk (I’m allergic) for walnut milk. Put it in the Nutri Bullet which worked great. We dipped apples in it and my mom just started smearing it on graham crackers. We’re going to try it in coffee tomorrow.
WOO! This sounds delicious, I am so happy you are loving this recipe, Becky. Thank you so much for sharing your review + star rating, I really appreciate it!
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Hi! I am making your 4-ingredient date caramel sauce for Christmas as a gift. How long is it good for in the fridge? Does it freeze well also?
Thanks!
Hi Olivia – This will last about a week in the fridge. I have never tried freezing this recipe, but I imagine it would freeze just fine. Enjoy!
This is so delicious. Where has this been been my whole life. I can’t wait to put this in my coffee tomorrow!
YUM! Loving the idea to add this to your coffee, sounds delicious. I am glad that you are loving this recipe. Thank you so much for your review + star rating, I so appreciate it!
Everything is perfect about the colour, how did you get such a dark caramel colour ???
I added normal milk and it is very light caramel colour not like yours.. and definetly not so glossy.
Hi Daniel – Did you change anything about the recipe other than the milk?
This turned out amazing. I used halawy dates instead of medjool. They have a caramel-esque flavor already and they’re super soft. Since they are smaller I had to use 30 of them. I switched out the almond milk (I’m allergic) for walnut milk. Put it in the Nutri Bullet which worked great. We dipped apples in it and my mom just started smearing it on graham crackers. We’re going to try it in coffee tomorrow.
WOO! This sounds delicious, I am so happy you are loving this recipe, Becky. Thank you so much for sharing your review + star rating, I really appreciate it!
Perfection! Used as a raw vegan cheesecake topping.
YUM! That sounds delicious, Sarah! Thank you so much for sharing your review & star rating, I really appreciate it.