Caramels without cream or condensed milk?
I have a chocolate caramel recipe that I love, but I'd like to tweak it to not use heavy cream, which I don't keep for anything else. However, I always have butter. Any thoughts on how I would need to adjust the ingredients, to not need heavy cream? Here's what I have now:
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup plus 1/8 cup light corn syrup
1 tablespoon oil
3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
Best Answer
You should be able to use butter easily, there are good caramels based on butter.
As a starting point in reengineering the recipe, I would try 1/3 of the cream amount as butter (by weight). So 3/4 * 240 g (1 cup of cream, rounded) / 3 = 60 g butter. Cream has about 33% milk fat, and the water in it evaporates anyway when making the caramels. You'll obviously have to test it and tweak it until you have arrived at the best substitution ratio. Removing the oil may simplify things, it's unlikely to have much contribution when you are working with butter.
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Answer 2
If it just a matter of having it on hand, you could use heavy cream powder.
The labels say this stuff is good for 2 years. I have never used cream powder but have definitely used milk powder and buttermilk powder, which have longer shelf lives so they stay available for intermittent use.
Now that I live with someone who likes cream in her coffee maybe I will pick up some of this cream powder and see what is what.
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