This butterscotch has butter AND (real) Scotch. It's creamy and dreamy, evocative of salted caramel, and most unlike the butterscotch candies of your childhood. Try it for yourself, and see.

A butterscotch sauce or candy made with whiskey has an added depth and intensity, a bite beyond the uncomplicated sweetness of brown sugar and butter alone. It doesn't overtake the butterscotch's essential flavor, but it does make it more nuanced—something welcome in all kinds of desserts, but ice cream especially.

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