Spiced Caramel

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This Spiced Caramel is deliciously sweet and packs a punch from different rich flavors imbued in it.

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Caramel week is my favorite bake-off week because I get to showcase another type of caramel! And this time, we’re working with a spiced caramel that to give even more flavor to this rich and sweet topping. I used this caramel as a filling for the stroopwafel technical challenge.

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Ingredients

To make the caramel full of spices and rich with flavor, every ingredient does some work! Instead of sugar, let’s use brown sugar for more flavor. Instead of water, let’s start with an ingredient that’s already like a syrup: molasses. And just for extra added spice, let’s throw come ground cinnamon in there for good measure!

Process

Reflections

I really love the depth of flavor that comes from this recipe. There is a spice from the molasses that is very prominent flavor in the caramel which mingles nicely with the cinnamon and natural toastiness from the caramel.

Lessons

All at Once

In this recipe, I decided to cook everything at once instead of cooking the caramel separately before adding it to the other ingredients. While this infused the flavors into one and allowed the spices to shine, it also took longer to cook everything down into the syrupy caramel consistency that I wanted. I ended up boiling the caramel several times to get it down to where it would be a spreadable viscosity.