Name: Soft Candy Caramels
Yield: Yield: about 70 Caramels
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: ⅔ cup condensed milk; 2 cups heavy cream; 1 cup firmly packed light brown sugar; 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 cups light corn syrup; 1 teaspoon sea salt or fleur de sel; 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract; ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into cubes

Preparation info

Yield: about
70
Caramels

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Baked Explorations

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

About

Mom was resolute. Halloween was her favorite holiday, and she was unyielding in the candy selection. The shelves of the grocery store were stocked, literally bulging, with eye-catching displays of my favorite candy bars and confections, wrapped in special Halloween-themed packaging and perfectly bite-size (or two-bite-size) for trick-or-treaters. Mom ignored these, barely acknowledged my pleadings for the Hershey’s multipack, and moved quickly to the less-colorful part of the candy aisle. S