#caramels

[foodffs]

Ridiculously Easy Microwave Pumpkin Caramels

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Is this how you roll?

[starsrosesglitters]

[beccawise7]

Wednesdays....

Sounds about right... 💜🖤

[fullcravings]

Chocolate Covered Caramels

[paulgadzikowski]

had a bag of soft caramels that were sticking to their wrappers to an impractical degree

decided to put'em inna fridge for awhile to see whether that'd fix the problem, and after a day in the fridge the wrappers peel right off like they're supposed to

but now the candies are almost too hard to chew

if i wanted hard candies i'd've bought hard candies

[sockeye-run]

My coworkers asked me to make my salted pumpkin caramels again 🥹 They remembered them from last year! I made half without pepitas because not everyone likes nuts 🎃

[walkawaytall]

So, this December, it will be 11 years since I last worked at Costco, which means it has been nearly 11 years since my old coworkers had one of these apple cider caramels, which I believe I only made twice for work. A couple of people did go crazy over these caramels, and they apparently really made an impression, because I was shopping recently and one of my former coworkers asked if I'd made them any time recently.

Anyway, here's the recipe that is apparently worth bringing up a decade after the fact. It is autumnal, it really isn't that difficult as long as you have a candy thermometer (though, be very careful with molten sugar), and it makes a ton of candy.

(For the record, this is my favorite recipe blog. I have been using her recipes since 2009, and I think I've only found a couple of them just okay. Most are fantastic.)

[raethereptile]

I AM MAKING CHOCOLATES FOR THE FIRST TIME AND ITS WORKING OMG

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[My Grandmother: she always traveled with the little round pillow]

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We don't eat now the way we did then. That's for sure.

My paternal grandmother had a big sweet tooth. True for her entire family. She made candy and was really good at it. Fudge, penuche, divinity, caramels. O man. My mother and father both were candy fans and all of my siblings had their own temptations as far as sweets go.

When we lived in Kane, my Great Aunt Helen used to take us to "The Nut Shop" on Saturdays after she got off work. The Nut Shop was a confectionary shop. You could pick candies by the piece and get them in little white bags. What a heavenly place, I can still smell the smell that wafted past when you opened the door.

Gramma Bowman's Caramels

2 cups of sugar 1 cup of butter or margarine 3/4 cup dark Karo syrup 1/2 cup of milk

When the mixture boils add 1 cup of cream [canned milk] a little at a time, so as not to stop the boiling.  Cook until hard ball in water.

Stir constantly as it becomes thick and burns easily.  Cut in squares and keep in refrigerator

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Gramma Bowman's Penuche

2 Tbsp butter 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 1/2 cups white sugar pinch of salt 3 Tbsp of light corn syrup 1 cup of evaporated milk

Melt the butter and stir in sugar and salt and corn syrup.  Add cream and mix well until boiling.  Cook until the mixture forms a medium ball.  Add nuts if desired.  Let cool and beat like fudge.

Beating it like fudge demands a strong arm and some wicked determination so beat until it looses it's gloss and dulls and beings to harden.  

YUM

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This is for fudge, the best ever.

Gramma Bowman's Fudge

Bring to a boil in a large heavy pan: 1 cup minus 1 TBSP. rich milk Remove from heat and stir in until dissolved: 2 Cups sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 2 oz. grated chocolate 2 TBSP. light corn syrup

Bring to a boil and cook covered 2 to 3 minutes until the steam washes down from the sides of the pan any crystals which may have formed.

Uncover, reduce heat and cook without stirring to soft-ball stage, 238 degrees.  When nearing 238 degrees, there is a find overall bubbling with simultaneously, a coarse pattern, as though the fine bubbled areas were being pulled down for quilting into the coarser ones.

Remove from the heat, add 2-3 TBSPS butter without stirring.

Cool the candy to 110 degrees.  You may hasten this process by placing the hop pan in a larger pan of cold water until bottom of pan has cooled.  Beat fudge partially.  Add 1/2 teaspoons vanilla.  Then beat until it begins to lose it's sheen and thickens.  Pour into oiled pan.  Mark into squares.

[from my food blog, "Continual Feasts"]

[morethansalad]

Date-Sweetened Salted Caramels (Vegan)

[kiwibirb1]

Gotta get more caramels wheres that giant ass bag my grandma gave me cause she had extra-

[eatofit1]

Homemade Amish Caramels !! | Desserts

[septembergold]

[oldfangirl81]

Vegan Coconut Caramels

I have successfully made vegan coconut caramels. Now the fun part of wrapping them.

Recipe

[ruangkatarupa]

German Chocolate Bars Recipe Similar to German chocolate cake, these caramel-topped German chocolate bars can be consumed with your hands.

[silver-slut]

9/10