Dairy & cheese · syrup
Dulce de leche
Also called milk caramel, confiture de lait
Thick milk caramel from slowly cooked sweetened milk; toffee-like and spreadable. Filled into alfajores, cakes and banoffee pie or spread on toast.
What can replace it
- T2 · GoodCaramel sauce
Thinner, more bittersweet and less milky; won't hold firm in alfajores or banoffee pie.
- T3 · In a pinchSweetened condensed milk
Pale, thin and without caramel flavour unless you cook it down first.
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