"DulceDeLeche" news and stories

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Dulce de Leche, a sweet found in Argentine, Uruguayan and Chilean cuisine, is prepared by cooking sweetened condensed milk to create a sumptuous sauce that tastes like melted milk caramels.

I will warn you -– it is dangerous. I could eat it out of the container with a spoon, but it can also be extremely versatile when used sparingly as a topping for healthier ingredients to make hundreds of fast desserts.

I am constantly in awe of my friend Jennie's (she of Straight from the Farm fame) level of food creativity. She is constantly coming up with delicious new recipes, doing things like making cheese (people keep telling me that cheesemaking is easy, but I've yet to give a whirl) and making cranberries dance and sing (well, not literally). But I do believe that she has outdone herself this time with these jars of homemade dulce de leche. It actually appears to be pretty easy to make and if you're looking for a last-minute homemade holiday gift, this might be your answer.

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Caramel is my chocolate. Actually, I believe there is only one thing better than caramel really, and that is dulce de leche. Top it off with crispy, deep fried churros coated in cinnamon sugar and we have reached a whole new level of dessert heaven.

Ellie at Kitchen Wench recently received a jar of dulce de leche from a fellow blogger, and proceeded to whip up a batch of churros for dipping based on a recipe by Jane Milton in her cookbook 'Mexican'. Though churros are traditionally piped from a pastry bag using a star tip, (which forms the ridges along the churro surface) she didn't have one large enough so opted to pipe without a tip instead.

Since Ellie used a jar of pre-made dulce de leche, I'll leave you with my recipe for making it yourself, which you can find after the jump.

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I considered cropping the picture of these Dulce de Leche Brownies, baked by Zarah Maria of Food and Thoughts, so it wouldn't be quite so tall, but I just couldn't bring myself to cut the brownies - unless it was with a knife, of course. The recipe she used is from David Lebovitz's recipe archives. It is a fairly standard brownie recipe with dulce de leche - thick, sweet caramelized milk - spread on top. Some stores carry dulce de leche in the section with the condensed and evaporated milks, but if your store doesn't, you may have to make if yourself. David gives some tips on how to do that in his recipe for the brownies.

For a somewhat less guilty version, you could try swirling some dulce de leche on top of a batch of No Pudge Brownies before baking them, too.

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