For Halloween - Candy ideas? I'm thinking dulce de leche candy... in a crock pot?
Happy week before Halloween! Anyone getting into candy making this year?
I'm wanting to make some popular South American/Central American dulce de leche candy (like caramels) and was wondering if any of you have done this in a crock pot. The regular recipe says to simmer the can of sweetened condensed milk for 8 hours on the stovetop...
Ideas?
Here's a recipe that I found
By GlobalTable
on Oct 22, 2010 06:38 PM
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I tried making this and it was a fail. I cooked the dulce de leche for 8 hours on the stove, with two small holes in the can because I didn't want an explosion... it was still too soft for caramels. Before this I cooked them for 6 hours, and it was waaaay too soft. I'm not sure I have another 10 hours in me, to try again.
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I was making a batch of dark DDL (45 minutes in pressure cooker), and I decided to keep going for another 2 hours with 1 of my cans. The result was very nice. Not a candy though. It's more of a dark (quite bitter) silky soft caramel that melts in your mouth. I could see using it for a desert topping for a pie or icecream .
I followed the instructions from the link pretty closely, except for using a PC instead of stove-top. DDL made from condensed milk is 55% sugar, which isn't enough to ever harden into a candy, I believe.
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