Milk Caramel

Dulce de Leche

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    3 cups

    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
La Comida del Barrio

By Aarón Sánchez

Published 2003

  • About

Dulce de leche is a Hispanic term for a type of caramel sauce. The silky smooth caramel is made, by slowly simmering sweetened milk until it is very thick and amber colored. (Cajeta) is the Mexican version, made with goat’s milk.) The intensely flavored concoction is widely used in Latin America and is the main ingredient in filling most Argentinean pastries and cakes. In the Hispanic home, it is commonly spread on toast and waffles in the morning, stirred into black coffee, a