Making caramel

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

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For caramel, all the water in the sugar syrup needs to evaporate. Prepare an ice-water bath. You will need a long-handled wooden spoon, a sugar thermometer and a clean pastry brush.

Ingredients

  • 400 g/14 oz/2 cups caster (superfine) sugar
  • 150

Method

  1. Place the water and sugar in the pan and stir over a low heat to dissolve the sugar. Use a clean, wet pastry brush to brush any sugar crystals from the edge of the pan into the mixture.

  2. Once the sugar has dissolved, increase the heat