Chasing Cheerios

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Easy Dulce De Leche...Argentina!

The girls and I made dulce de leche a couple of weeks ago, and it is absolutely deeeelicious!!!  It was also super simple to make!  The only ingredient is a can of sweetened condensed milk!  We took the label off the can and put it in a deep pot of water (at least 4 inches of water covered the can at all times...evidently, it will explode if it is ever uncovered).  We boiled the can for 4 hours.  After it cooled, we opened the can on both ends and the dulce de leche slid out....sooo good!  We put it on vanilla ice-cream and then sandwiched it between 2 shortbread cookies to make alfajores.








5 comments:

  1. That looks soooo good! We made this once but it wasn't that thick - bet I didn't cook it long enough. It had a nice caramel flavor, but will cook it longer next time. Fun lesson for Argentina!

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  2. Looks so delicious. Dulce de leche is one of my favorite deserts.

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  3. This is really as easy as it looks... my husband's dad was from Argentina and we make it every once in a while, supposedly just to put inside alfajores. (but not all of it gets inside the cookies! :) )

    He taught me to flip the can every half hour or so, and add a little water once in a while to make sure it's covered. SO delicious!

    Thanks for posting :)

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  4. Dulce de leche is one of my favorite deserts.

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  5. hello! you don´t need to boil the can that much, boil it for one hour and flip the can and wait 1 more hour. You should try the dulce de leche with panqueques! (panqueques are like crepes, the recipe includes flour, eggs,an vanilla scent. I am from Argentina :)

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