Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream and a Perfect Scoop Giveaway! Recipe

I do believe that I have found the Holy Grail of Ice Cream recipe! I adore caramel. It's my weakness. I love it more than-- gasp-- chocolate. I've made caramel flan sauce before, but I've never made my own buttery caramel sauce. I was inspired to make this recipe when I saw The Brown-Eyed Baker's beautiful photograph of her version. The recipe originally comes from David Lebovitz, who is the author of one of my favorite dessert books:

As I read the posted recipe, several times, I finally got the courage to make my own caramel. There are three important steps in making this-- making a salted caramel praline ...

...(with fleur de sel), making a buttery caramel sauce...

...and making an ice cream base with egg…