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ELI5: What's the difference between caramel, butterscotch, & molasses?
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Caramel: Cook the WHITE sugar until it thickens and browns (caramelizes).

Butterscotch: Cook the BROWN sugar until it thickens and browns even more.

Molasses: The stuff that you remove from raw sugar to make white sugar. Brown sugar is essentially either raw sugar or white sugar that has had some molasses put back in.