Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream

It was a revolution when one of the main commercial ice-cream brands in France brought out a salted butter caramel ice cream. At my house this completely transformed apple pies and compotes, and served as inspiration for creating dozens of sauces to pour over it: butterscotch, chocolate fudge, and so on. But most of the time, I serve it on its own, with maybe just a few cookies. It used to be that only the top-end-of-the-market ice-cream brands had such fashionable flavors, but commercial s