This easy 2-Ingredient Date Caramel sauce is the best spread for breakfast or no-bake desserts. Plus, this is a vegan caramel sauce made with no dairy, no butter, and no refined sugar.
I love making quick and easy recipes with just 2 ingredients like my Mga Butas ng Donut na Saging na may 2 Sangkap, 2-Sangkap na Fudge, O Mga Cookie na Peanut Butter na may 2 Sangkap.
Date caramel is a thick sticky caramel sauce made from Medjool dates, a thick variety of dried dates. It’s a versatile staple that can be used in no-bake desserts to replace caramel, but it can also be added to plant-based yogurts or on top of cakes and cookies. It’s an alternative to my Peanut Butter Caramel.
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Date Caramel
Ingredients
- 1 tasa Medjool Dates - pitted
- 3-6 tablespoons Maligamgam na tubig - or lukewarm almond milk
Opsyonal
- 2-3 kutsara Peanut Butter (Walang Asin)
- ¼ kutsarita Sea Salt
- ¼ kutsarita Vanilla Extract - or caramel extract
tagubilin
- In a high-speed blender or food processor, add all the ingredients and blend at medium speed. Use the tamper tool of the blender to push down the dates onto the blade and help the blender turns the date into a sticky caramel paste.
- Add more lukewarm water or lukewarm almond milk to thin out the spread. The more you add, the easier it is to blend. Keep adjusting based on your preferences.
- Serve onto bread, crepes, pancakes, desserts, or for dipping apple slices.
Imbakan
- Store for 3 weeks in a sealed mason jar in the fridge.
Pagkain
Best Date Varieties
The success of a date caramel depends on the variety of dates you use. In fact, there are many date varieties. Some are thicker, sweeter, and better for desserts, while others are better for cooking with their smaller size and dryer texture. Below I listed the names of the most common dates from the grocery store. The top 3 are great to make date caramel recipes because of their soft, rich and sweet flavor.
- medjool – the best choice of dates for dessert with a rich, sweet, soft strong caramel-like flavor and amber color.
- Bahri – rich and soft date with firm flesh and skin. These work well in desserts but take longer to process into a paste, especially in a food processor.
- Dayri – heavy, sweet, and soft with red skin.
- Deglet Noor – semi-dry, strong date flavor, no caramel-like flavor, and mostly used in cooking for meals.
- Halaway or halawi – with a sweet honey flavor, very soft with a lighter orange color.
- Thoory – also called bread date. They are perfectly sweet, nutty, and dry dates for baking.
So to make this recipe, I highly recommend Medjool date or Bahri or Dayri dates. If you don’t have a high-speed blender, Medjool dates are the ones that blend the best in a food processor.
Ingredients at Substitutions
All you need to make date caramel are 2 ingredients that you probably have at home.
- Medjool Dates – this variety of dates is rich and soft, with a chewy flesh that naturally has a caramel-like taste.
- Maligamgam na tubig or almond milk or coconut milk or even coconut cream for a smoother, richer sauce.
How To Make Date Caramel
First, place the dates into a large mixing bowl and cover with hot water for 3 minutes. This softens the flesh of the dates and makes it easier to blend and pulse into a paste. There are two ways to make date caramel in your high-speed blender.
You can make:
- Thick date caramel – to spread on a piece of bread or make Snickers frozen banana bites.
- Thin caramel sauce – to drizzle on sorbetes, dessert, or make caramel apple.
The difference between both is the amount of water or almond milk you add to the blender. The more you add, the thinner the caramel will be.
- Add all the ingredients into the jug of a high-speed blender and blend until it reaches your favorite texture.
- Use the tamper tool of the food processor to push down the dates onto the blade and help the food processor pulse the dates into a creamy paste. Add more liquid.
Mga Pagpipilian sa Pampalasa
There are a few delicious additions you can make to this recipe to flavor your spread.
- lasa ng karamelo – add 1/2 teaspoon of natural caramel extract.
- Vanilla lasa – add 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract vanilla seed.
- Asin ng dagat – to make a sea salt caramel paste.
- Peanut butter – add 1-2 tablespoons of natural peanut butter in the blender to make a peanut butter caramel.
Mga Ideya sa Paghahatid
This caramel date sauce is delicious as a breakfast spread onto:
- a slice of bread – try my gluten-free pumpkin seed bread recipe.
- Mga Crepes
- Pancakes – use my resipe ng pancake na bakwit or fluffy egg-free pancake recipe.
- Vegan brioche
- Mga Waffles
- Mga hiwa ng mansanas
- Sorbetes
More Caramel Recipes
I love to create recipes with natural caramel flavors from dates or maple syrup. Below I listed my favorite vegan caramel desserts for you to try:
We did this with dates, coconut milk, salt and vanilla essence and it was super tasty. Thank you for this recipe
Is a regular blender what you’re calling a “high speed” or do you mean something like a Nutribullet?
High speed blender is a blender like Vitamix or kitchen aid. It has the power to blend harder food like nuts or dates into a creamy smooth texture.
Never thought about puree the dates into a caramel sauce. Thank you!