Orange Caramel Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    7–8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Simply Delicious 2

By Darina Allen

Published 1990

  • About

The recipe for this extremely rich and delicious orange-flavoured Caramel Cream was given to me by an Australian friend, Margaret Beard.

Ingredients

Caramel

  • 4 ozs (110 g/½ cup) sugar

Method

First make the caramel. Put the sugar and water into a heavy-bottomed saucepan and stir over a gentle heat until the sugar is dissolved. Bring to the boil, remove the spoon and cook until the syrup turns to a caramel. Do not stir and do not shake the pan. If sugar crystals form around the sides of the pan, brush them down with cold water. When the caramel is chestnut-brown colour it is ready fo