Caramel Sauce

I needed caramel sauce for a brownie recipe and was looking for a traditional sugar, butter and cream recipe. The brownie recipe calls for Smuckers caramel sauce, but I didn't want to make a trip to the store. In my search I came upon this recipe. Since I had a can of Borden's sweetened condensed milk sitting in the cupboard, I decided to try it first. I followed the recipe to the letter and boy was I suprised how delicious it came out. I've read reviews of this stuff over the years and I see what all of the hoopla is all about. Mine came out thick like pudding with a delicious deep caramel taste and color after three hours of cooking. I started dipping things in it like nuts and kettle chips! I can see how people talk about eating spoonfuls of this stuff. I had to put it away before it was all gone. It will work out perfect for my brownie recipe thinned out with a bit of heavy cream.

Actually, what you get from this is called manjar; that is sold here in chile. It is not the same as caramel, which is called caramelo in spanish. Caramel is more liquid while manjar is rich and thick. if you like the rich taste of this (which is very good) simply add milk to it(in a saucepan over medium-low heat) until it is the consistancy that you like. you can also make a mousse hope this helps! use one can of manjar with 3 cups whipping cream + 1 tbsp confectioners sugar. whip the cream and add the sugar. fold in manjar This is not a dangerous recipe as long as the pan always has water, it has been called a dangerous method because some people tend get distracted because it takes so much time. as long as you babysitt it .. it will be fine i give it a 5 because it has great taste, even better than some of the manjar sold in chile. try it with toasted bread, apples, graham crackers or try the torta de hojas here.. yum! Update: I cant believe some people say this doesnt taste good or it was a waste of ingredients!!! you can make sooo many things with manjar. its a thicker buttery milky type of caramel sauce. when you make it this way its thicker than the ones that they sell in chile or argentina but its just a matter of adding whipping cream as I said. You really wont regret this! I will upload a photo of manjar that is sold in chile so you can see the thickness that you will get because the one that i buy is very thick as i like to spread it on bread!