How to Make Caramel Sauce with Condensed Milk (National Caramel Day)

It’s National Caramel Day. Enjoy!

How to make caramel sauce with condensed milk - just one ingredient

I volunteered to bring a fruit platter to a gathering of friends a few days ago. Since there was going to be a mixture of adults and kids, I decided to add a sweet caramel dip to the mixture of apples, grapes, pineapples, and strawberries. At first, I considered buying a jar of caramel from the store but then I remembered how easy it was to make caramel sauce with condensed milk. You can make a delicious caramel sauce with just one ingredient – a 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk! Everyone who tried it loved it and my kids asked me to make it again soon so I’m sharing the recipe below…

Make Caramel Sauce with Condensed Milk

popcorn with homemade caramel sauce (caramel recipe is in the post)
I have also drizzled my homemade caramel sauce over popcorn in the past.

This recipe simply merges the instructions from Carnation’s dulce de leche recipe on their site and Eagle Brand’s homemade caramel sauce recipe on their site. The baking time on the latter is WRONG. It says to “BAKE 1 3/4 to 2 hours.” If you do that, you will have some burnt, crunchy caramel – like I did the first time that I tried it!

Enjoy your Caramelized Milk/Dulce de Leche/Homemade Caramel Sauce…whatever you want to call it :-).

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