Make thick and creamy homemade Dulce de Leche in two simple ways! Turn an ordinary can of sweetened condensed milk into a rich and lusciously sweet treat that you can use on bread, cookies, cakes, ice creams, muffins, and cupcakes!
- What is Dulce de Leche?
- Dulce de Leche vs Caramel Sauce
- How to make Dulce de Leche?
- Foxy tips when making Dulce de Leche
- Dulce de Leche
What is Dulce de Leche?
This Spanish word simply means "sweets made of milk". The traditional way of making this involves 2 basic ingredients- milk and sugar. The mixture is slowly simmered while continuously being stirred until it thickens and browns. As you can guess, this can be quite a tedious process. Nowadays, most prefer using canned condensed milk as it is more convenient and practical.
Dulce de Leche vs Caramel Sauce
It can be difficult to discern the difference between these two. They look the same and have a similar flavor-base and can mostly be used interchangeably. The main difference is the ingredients used, while dulce de leche is made of milk and sugar, caramel sauce uses mainly sugar and water. I also made a creamy version of caramel sauce that you will love!
How to make Dulce de Leche?
Nothing can be simpler to make than this one-ingredient wonder! Both processes involved are quite straightforward and basically yield the same results.
Method 1: Boiling
Place a can of condensed milk (with label removed) in the pressure cooker pot and submerge it in water. The water level should be 1 to 2 inches above the can. Close the lid properly and use high heat. Turn the heat down once it starts to whistle and let it simmer for 20 minutes at high pressure. Turn off heat and release the valve to let the steam escape. Remove the lid and let the water cool down completely before taking the can out.
An easy way to make Dulce de leche, with only 1 ingredient!!
Dulce de leche is sweet, thick and delicious and can be used in many desserts!
What is Dulce de Leche?
Dulce de leche is 'caramelised' sweetened milk.A confection from Latin America, by cooking down milk and sugar, for long hours until it reaches rich golden in colour.
Dulce de leche is also known as milk jam in English.
What is the difference between dulce de leche and caramel?
The main ingredients for dulce de leche is milk and sugar.Both ingredients combined and cook over slow heat for few hours to reach that golden creamy caramel colour.
The main ingredients for caramel is sugar and water.
Caramel is cooked by heating up sugar with little water and watch it change colour to clear gold liquid.
How to make dulce de leche?
There are two method that I know off, of how to cook dulce de leche.First, the traditional way of making dulce de leche, that is using 2 ingredients combined and cook for a long period of time.
Second, the cheat way of by cooking store bought sweet condensed milk.
My way of making dulce de leche.
Dulce de Leche recipe using stove top method!
Easy steps to make Dulce de Leche on stove top!
Simple printable recipe is in the recipe card below.However, let me go through steps by steps to make dulce de leche.
1. Wash a can of condensed milk
2. Remove label
3. Fill up a stock pot with water until the can is totally submerge
4. Bring water to boil, then lower the heat to a simmer.
5. Let the can of condensed milk simmer for about 3 hours.
6. Remove the can from the pot and let the can totally cool down before opening!
The can of dulce de leche might explode due to the built up pressure whilst cooking.
How to keep dulce de leche?
Once open I recommend to transfer the dulce de leche to an air tight container and refrigerate.How long can I keep Dulce de Leche in the refrigerator?
Once the can is open and expose to the air, make sure to keep dulce de leche in the refrigerator.It is good to keep for 3 weeks.
An unopen can of dulce de leche can keep for 3 months.
Other recipe using Dulce de leche
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