If butterscotch ice cream topping has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 9 recipes to try it in.
There are 9 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Macadamia fudge torte with devil's food cake mix, pureed pears, chocolate chip filling, and warm butterscotch sauce. A layered springform pan dessert.
Better Than Sex Cake #3, the poke cake version: German chocolate cake riddled with sweetened condensed milk and butterscotch sauce, then topped with crushed Heath bars and whipped cream.
Butterfinger poke cake made with German chocolate cake mix, butterscotch topping soaked into the layers, and crushed candy bars folded into whipped topping with pecans.
German chocolate poke cake drenched in sweetened condensed milk and butterscotch, then scattered with crushed Heath bars and whipped cream. Five ingredients. Zero restraint.
Turtle swirl cheesecake on a chocolate wafer crust with semi-sweet chocolate ribbons, butterscotch drizzle, and toasted pecans. Marbled, dense, and unapologetically rich.
Easy Butterfinger pecan cake: chocolate poke cake soaked in butterscotch sauce, topped with whipped topping folded with crushed Butterfingers and pecans. Five ingredients, all crowd-pleaser.
No-bake angel food cake layered and frosted with butterscotch whipped cream, then covered in crunchy toffee bits. Just 5 ingredients and 20 minutes of hands-on time before it chills.
Robert Redford poke cake: chocolate cake soaked with sweetened condensed milk and butterscotch, topped with whipped cream and crushed toffee bars. Classic make-ahead potluck dessert.
The famous Tom Cruise Cake: a German chocolate poke cake soaked in condensed milk and butterscotch, piled with whipped cream and crushed Heath bars. Outrageously rich, dead simple, and worth every sticky, toffee-laced bite.