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How to Make Caramel and Caramel Sauce

How to Make Caramel: An Easy Recipe for Freestanding Decorations Temperature control is important in this recipe, but otherwise it is suitable even for those with limited pastry experience. For homemade caramel you will need 350 g granulated sugar, 150 g water and a heavy-bottomed saucepan […]

How to make caramel
From the recipe book Tutto Pasticceria
Reading2 min
DifficultyFor all
QuantityShared
Published12/02/2018
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How to make caramel: simple recipe for detachable decorations

How to make caramel

For this recipe it is important to pay a lot of attention to the temperatures, for the rest it can be made also by those who do not have much experience in pastry.

Ingredients for Homemade sweet caramel:

  • 350 grams of sugar
  • 150 grams of water
  • Pentoline with thick bottom (needs necessary for not burning)
  • Cucchiato 
  • Kitchen thermometer

Preparation of caramel

  1. Place the pentoline on the fire
  2. Add the sugar then pour the water to the wire and mix with a spoon or a spatula.
  3. Boil and wait for the water to evaporate

The water candy can be used to create nice decorations: draw on a sheet of paper bake the decoration that once cold, will be ready to be used.

To get a Soft caramel, when cooking, add more hot water.

Soft Cartoon: how to make Mou candies in the house

In this case, the Soft caramel is obtained by adding cream and not by simply water!

Here are the ingredients for about 30 candies mou

  • 100 g white sugar
  • 100 g of cane sugar
  • 100 ml fresh cream
  • 1/2 vanilla berry
  • Silicone moulds

Here’s how to do the candy mou in the house.

  1. In a saucepan dissolves the sugars very low flame, without ever stirring until it is completely dissolved. 
  2. In a separate pot, bring the boiled cream with half a vanilla berry.
  3. Once the sugar will be caramelized add cream and stir energetically. 
  4. Fill the desired shape silicone molds. Cold molds and refrigerate for at least 3 hours.

 

  1. Where to buy the thermometer for caramel?

On our shop you can find silicone molds, the thermometer and all you need for the preparation of caramel.

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