Caramel is one of my all time favorite treats and this is a foolproof recipe that turns out perfectly! They’re soft together with chewy in addition to perfectly buttery alongside a rich caramel flavor. These make one of the best homemade gifts together with no i volition know how tardily it was for your to make them!
The Easiest Caramel Recipe Ever!
Oh the things you tin can brand inward the microwave! Honestly though, I don’t know if it gets much meliorate than this 1, caramel made inward the microwave. I got this recipe from my female parent-in-law together with it is i of my favorite recipes ever!
This is caramel made slow in addition to they gustatory modality completely perfect. She’sec used this recipe for near xxx years as well as she said everyone she gives the recipe to absolutely loves it and I tin can come across why.
She as well said it’s and then tardily that her kids e'er used to make it when they were younger (adult supervision required here though people, this bowl gets HOT!). And straight off my kids honey to assistance me make it, and nosotros’ve been using the recipe for 4 years.
I’ve added a few youngster changes to the recipe, similar adding around vanilla in addition to adding Maldon body of water table salt, add them if yous’ve got them otherwise feel gratis to exit them out.
Try a batch this weekend, you’ll be amazed!
Post originally shared April. 2014.
Ingredients for Caramel
- Unsalted butter
- Light corn syrup
- Granulated carbohydrate in addition to chocolate-brown saccharide
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Salt
- Vanilla
How to Make Caramels
- Butter an viii by 8-inch baking dish.
- Place butter inward a large microwave rubber bowl (non anything plastic, something micro condom drinking glass or ceramic), oestrus inward microwave until melted.
- Add corn syrup, granulated sugar, brown saccharide, sweetened condensed milk as well as table salt as well as whisk mixture real well. R
- Return to microwave too ready mixture on HIGH ability for vi to vii minutes (more or less accept fifty-fifty mentioned 5.five worked for them).
- Using hot pads, carefully take bowl from microwave. Mix in vanilla.
- Pour mixture into prepared baking dish as well as sprinkle alongside flaky bounding main salt if desired.
- Let fix in refrigerator and then cut into pieces in addition to roll.
Tips for This Recipe
- Use unsalted butter, salted butter will splatter.
- Test caramel at half dozen minutes instead of going to the total seven minutes. To do and so examination with a candy thermometer (should live 238 – 242d) or you can driblet a minor spoonful inwards water ice water as well as later on but a flake is should be pliable as well as chewy.
My first batch was likewise hard because I went the full seven minutes, the fourth dimension volition vary based on your microwave wattage and the how big the bowl is yous’re using.
Can you believe it though, caramels made inward seven minutes inward the microwave!? Trust me, I’k hanging onto this recipe forever, in addition to I’1000 thinking yous volition besides!
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Microwave Caramels
Ingredients
- ane/2 cup (113g) unsalted butter,* cut into iv pieces
- 1/ii loving cup (120ml) light corn syrup
- ane/2 cup (100g) granulated saccharide
- i/2 loving cup (100g) packed calorie-free-brownish carbohydrate
- one/2 cup (120ml) sweetened condensed milk
- one/viii tsp common salt
- 3/4 tsp vanilla extract
- Maldon body of water salt or fleur de sel (optional)
Instructions
- Butter an eight past 8-inch baking dish. Place butter inward a big microwave safe bowl (that is microwave condom to high temps such every bit heavy duty glass**), heat in microwave until melted.
- To bowl alongside butter, add together corn syrup, granulated sugar, chocolate-brown sugar, sweetened condensed milk and common salt too whisk mixture really good.
- Return to microwave too prepare mixture on HIGH power for six to 7 minutes.***
- Using hot pads, carefully take away bowl from microwave. Add in vanilla extract together with mix well.
- Pour mixture into prepared baking dish, sprinkle height lightly alongside Maldon ocean table salt or fleur de sel if using.
- Place inward refrigerator until fix, nearly xx - xxx minutes. Cut into rectangular pieces (I cut into rows slightly less than ane/ii-inch and then cut each row into three) together with wrap inwards cut rectangles of wax paper.
Notes
- *Don't use salted butter or it will splatter a lot.
- **For condom I recommend referring to the bowls manufacturer to ensure the bowl is microwave rubber to high temperatures. For prophylactic avoid setting on a common cold surface afterward removing from the microwave together with be certain that yous don't begin with a cold bowl or it could shatter.
- ***I recommend taking it out about half-dozen as well as testing either alongside a candy thermometer which should register between 238 - 242 degrees or placing a small-scale spoon of the caramel inward a bowl of ice water then withdraw it from the water too it should take formed a pocket-sized pliable ball - naught besides soft or likewise hard.
- ***If it needs a piffling more time render to microwave and heat inwards 20 instant increments. Mine was done at vi minutes 20 seconds just will will vary slightly based on the wattage of your microwave in addition to the size of the bowl yous function.
- Recipe from my mother-inwards-police force, thank you Jill!
Amount Per Serving
Calories 78
Calories from Fat 36
% Daily Value*
