An easy and favorite old-fashioned holiday candy. This simple homemade caramels recipe uses only 5 ingredients and creates chewy, buttery, melt-in-your-mouth caramels!
Melt the butter in a heavy bottomed saucepan. Once the butter has melted add the brown sugar and light corn syrup and cook over medium-low heat until the sugar is dissolved.
Be sure to use caution pouring the extremely hot caramels into your prepared baking pan.Allow the caramels to cool at room temperature for 3-4 hours (or overnight) until cool and set.
Wrap the caramels, either using wax paper cut into 4x5 inch rectangles, or use candy wrappers. Place a caramel in the center, wrap the long sides of the paper over the caramel and twist both ends of the paper to seal in the caramel.