Sweetened Condensed Milk into Caramel Sauce Tutorial

Posted by The Virtuous Wife January 10, 2012

Sweetened Condensed Milk into Caramel Sauce Tutorial

I had seen this idea on Pinterest and I decided to try it out myself! It produces a thick, rich, caramel sauce- or "dulce de leche" and it's fantastic!

Dulce de Leche (Caramel Sauce)

Start with an unopened can of Sweetened Condensed Milk. Peel the label off.

Submerge it in water in your CrockPot.

Let to low and cook for 8 hours. Move hot, unopened can to fridge and let cool.

Open can. Boom. Caramel Sauce. I'll be making some homemade ice-cream and swirl some of this through it. Yum!

Comments

somethingbeautiful said…

Yummo!!! My mum used to do something similar to make banoffee pie, or anything else that required caramel. So much nicer than buying premade caramel.
Make sure can stays covered with water or it can explode. Happened on a camping trip and there was caramel everywhere.

January 10, 2012 at 7:30 PM

The Virtuous Wife said…

I'm excited! I'm going to mix some in to my homemade icecream and use the rest to make some Caramel Coffee Creamer. Yay!

And that sounds like the best camping trip ever.

January 10, 2012 at 9:21 PM

Anonymous said…

You can boil in a pan on the stove as well (three hours), but beware that sometimes it will leave a ring around the bottom where the cans were (as if someone traced the outline of the can). Bananas and graham crackers are great with this!!

January 23, 2012 at 1:46 PM

Anonymous said…

Just make sure that you don't leave it on for too long. I think mine was in slow cooker for 10 hours (overnight) and it was really thick. It tasted yummy, but it was difficult to get it out of the can, once it had cooled.

February 2, 2012 at 11:38 AM

Sandy said…

can you use the fat free version of the condensed milk to make it more fat free? this sounds great and I have been searching for a recipe for the skinny caramel macchiato creamer and now I'ver found it! Thanks!

March 25, 2012 at 10:01 PM

The Virtuous Wife said…

I dont see why not Sandy!

March 25, 2012 at 10:08 PM

Melissa Leech said…

LOVE this!! Thank you for posting this, made a batch today and will be making coffee whitener tonight :) Thanks for sharing such a wonderful recipe!

May 12, 2012 at 9:08 PM

Danielle said…

How long will this last in the fridge? Thanks in advanced?

June 4, 2012 at 10:23 AM

Liz said…

I saw this on Pinterest too, and always wanted to try it. Looks good, and love your blog!

Liz

July 19, 2012 at 9:38 PM

Unknown said…

Love this idea. Do you need to heat it up if you use the homemade carmel sauce recipe.

August 15, 2012 at 9:10 AM

cmoch said…

When I was small, my Mom would make this as a treat for us....we didn't have alot of money and never had any kind of candy in the house...only sweets were hand made. She would spread it on a graham cracker and top it off with another cracker - like a sandwich. For Easter, she would make these and melt Choc Chips and drizzle choc on the top....what a treat!! We only had ice cream in the winter - home made - because we had alot of ice. My Mom also used this for ice cream topping. Thank you bringing back memories from 50+ years ago.

August 25, 2012 at 12:36 PM

Anonymous said…

My Ex mother n law made this years ago it some good. Was telling a friend about it today. and she going to make it..
Thank you for your post

September 14, 2012 at 3:22 PM

Anonymous said…

My ex husband's family used to make this! I forgot how thanks I love this stuff. it is also great on toast.

October 5, 2012 at 9:05 PM

Unknown said…

I wanted make this right away, but I only had "Nestle La Lechere" in pantry... does it work as well??? It says fat free sweetened condenced milk on the can.

October 10, 2012 at 4:43 PM

Anonymous said…

going to try this with the chocolate condensed milk.

January 14, 2013 at 6:28 PM

Anonymous said…

I just made homemade ice cream with it. It is so good, tastes like the caramel fudge ice cream I used to get at the local dairy years ago.

January 25, 2013 at 1:45 AM

Anonymous said…

I Made it and it still tastes like sweetened condensed milk, but there is a slight caramel flavor but not much of one

January 30, 2014 at 10:17 AM

Anonymous said…

I'm wondering if this can be made with homemade condensed milk, and if so, what type of container it should be in to cook in crockpot....