IN WINTER, there’s something about caramel sauce that ... the old-school method. At Hot Cakes, a skilled artisan makes 30-pound batches by hand in a copper pot over a flame, carefully stirring ...

For either method, choose a pot with a heavy base to help prevent hot spots and one whose ... stop the temperature climb by adding liquid. Enriching. Most caramel sauces and confections use ...

Copper Pot Caramels, which makes caramel candies and sauces, is among the roughly 500 entries nationwide chosen as finalists for the Martha Stewart American Made competition, which honors small ...