Here are 25+ amazingly delicious recipes that use Dulce de Leche. Choose from rich and creamy dulce de leche ice cream, to a luxurious mousse or spiced apple cake dripping with dulce de leche icing and more!
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Dulce de leche is a luscious and creamy caramel sauce that originates from Latin America. It’s made by slowly heating sweetened milk until it caramelizes which creates the most velvety texture and a deep caramel flavor.
It’s perfect for drizzling over desserts, using as the center of a lava cake, sandwiching between cookies and adding an elegant touch to apple pie. In this roundup, you’ll see just how versatile dulce de leche can be!
Also known as caramelized milk, dulce de leche is a thick, butterscotch-like sauce that’s popular throughout Latin America. It has a very creamy and subtly sweet flavor, which makes it perfect for drizzling over cakes, ice cream, brownies, waffles, and more sweet treats.
Is dulce de leche the same as caramel?
Dulce de leche and caramel aren’t quite the same. Dulce de leche is creamier, as it’s made by boiling condensed milk until it turns into a sweet and rich brown sauce. Caramel is notably sweeter and is made by heating a mixture of sugar, butter, and cream until it caramelizes into a sticky and rich syrup.
Delicious Dulce de Leche Recipes
Learn how to make dulce de leche at home using two ingredients: boiling water and cans of condensed milk! It’s an easy and hands-off process that transforms condensed milk into a sweet and rich caramel-like sauce to drizzle over ice cream, cakes, and much more.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with these brown sugar cupcakes stuffed with dulce de leche and topped with buttercream frosting.Recipe: If You Give a Blonde a Kitchen
These gooey coconut caramel pecan bars sit on a buttery shortbread crust and are finished with a simple, homemade dulce de leche that really makes them really special. Recipe: The Modern Proper
This rich and creamy Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is the perfect treat! It has a smooth and creamy, caramel like flavor. Delicious any time!Recipe: In Krista's Kitchen
Chocotorta in a delicious Argentinian no-bake chocolate dessert. It’s made from all the good things in life; chocolate biscuits, dulce de leche, cream cheese and coffee.Recipe: The Cinnamon Jar
Alfajores recipe makes delicate shortbread cookies filled with dulce de leche and rolled in shredded coconut for a delicious dessert!Recipe: I Heart Eating
This dulce de leche mousse is creamy and full of rich milk caramel flavor. Easy to make using homemade dulce de leche from condensed milk!Recipe: The Floured Table
Lotus Biscoff Milkshake is an indulgent, smooth, and velvety creamy drink that is easily addictive. A copious amount of biscoff spread, dulce de leche, and cookies combined with cream yield a deliciously luscious treat guaranteed to keep you cool year-round. Recipe: Worldly Treat
Silky smooth, creamy dulce de leche cheesecake topped with a rich layer of milky dulce de leche and crushed pretzels is an awesomely delicious treat!Recipe: Nourished Endeavors
This dulce de leche easy lava cake takes only 15 minutes to make, needs just 4 ingredients, its freezer friendly and people go crazy about it. Recipe: Cook with Belula
Dulce de leche brownies are a delicious twist on the classic dessert. Made with a layer of dulce de leche, they’re simply irresistible!Recipe: Isabel Eats
This mini dulce de leche flan recipe is made with simple ingredients: milk, eggs and sugar. This easy, simple dessert is baked in individual ramekins over a layer of silky caramel.Recipe: Cook with Belula
This no-bake dessert has it all: a rich and airy chocolate ganache mousse with a layer of creamy dulce de leche caramel, nestled in a sweet, salty and lightly spiced cookie crust. Recipe: Love and Olive Oil
Ramp up your apple pie with delicious and creamy dulce de leche in the filling for a luxurious and fun twist on the classic pie recipe.Recipe: Vikalinka
Dulce de Leche Bars are incredibly easy to make and absolutely scrumptious. Enjoy gooey and rich Dulce de Leche in a cookie bar base.Recipe: Simply Stacie
This chocolate, dulce de leche and vanilla marble cake is a triple threat! The cake has a fun checkerboard swirl and a rich, tender crumb.Recipe: Pretty Simple Sweet
This lovely dulce de leche cake is made with a super tender vanilla sponge cake and frosted with cream cheese dulce de leche frosting.Recipe: Baran Bakery
This delicious Chocolate Dulce de Leche Cake features two layers of moist chocolate cake and luscious dulce de leche buttercream frosting!Recipe: Parsley and Icing
Turn traditional chocolate chip cookies into something with a little extra pizzaz by swirling them with dulce de leche! This is a no chill cookie recipe that yields gooey and chewy cookies every time.Recipe: Fresh April Flours
Chocolate and caramel is one of the best (and tastiest) combinations! This 2-toned Dulce de Leche Fudge is delicious and indulgent.Recipe: Make With Mara
Many of these desserts can be made ahead of time and stored in the refrigerator for a few days or even in the freezer. Simply check the individual recipes for full storing instructions and details on how to make ahead.
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Here are 25+ amazingly delicious recipes that use Dulce de Leche. Choose from rich and creamy dulce de leche ice cream, to a luxurious mousse or spiced apple cake dripping with dulce de leche icing and more!
Remove the label from your cans and remove as much of the glue as possible.
Place the cans in a large pot and add enough water to the pot to cover the cans by 2-inches.
Bring the water to a low boil over medium-high heat. Then, reduce the heat to its lowest setting and let simmer for 3 1/2 hours. Important, make sure the cans are fully submerged at all times, adding additional water if needed during the cooking process. I like to cover my pot to cut back on the evaporation.
Remove the pot from the heat and leave the cans in the water. Let the water in the pot and the cans come to room temperature. Careful: Opening the cans while still hot can cause sputtering and burns.
Store the cans in the refrigerator. Unopened cans will last up to three months. Once opened, the dulce de leche will last about one week in the fridge.
