Most of pastry recipes call for caramel. It is quite delightful and generally makes everything taste better.
Making caramel is very easy, it just makes sense to make your homemade caramel for your pastry.
Caramel is a bit high in sugar but since it's almost always used to taste up a cake or pastry in a small amounts, it's not so bad.
But for those who want to know, caramel contains little less than 50 percent sugar. If it is to consumed raw, It is still better than sugar cube.
Caramel does not have a significant nutrition value other than it's great taste and energy.
3.5 oz (100g) of caramel has 372 calories that 170 calories of which comes from fat.
Caramel can be refrigerated and come in form of candy.