by Karen Swan
I posted this photo on my personal facebook page after I first made it and my comment was: “If I was home alone, I would be rolling around naked in a bath of the stuff.”
I promise you, if you make this, you’ll be tempted to do hustle the kids out the door and have some quality alone time with nothing but a spoon, a big bowl and something saucy on the telly.
My goal was vegan condensed milk to adapt the homemade chocolate coconut bars into a vegan recipe, but as I cooked it, or over cooked it as it turns out, I ended up with the most incredible, thick and sweet, caramel sauce. Suddenly a world of options opened up for me and I knew I’d stumbled upon a very tasty and very versatile little sauce!
A few tips:
1. If you want condensed milk and therefore want it runnier, cook it for about 10 minutes less than I did. You should then be able to stop the real caramelisation of the sweetener and it won’t thicken as much upon cooling.
2. If you want a nice, thick caramel sauce, simmer for about 5 to 10 minutes after the bubbles begin to change to a more ‘frothy’ look and the moisture evaporates as the sugars caramelise.
Ingredients:
1 tin full fat coconut milk
1/4 cup maple syrup (or the liquid sweetener of your choice – agave, rice syrup, honey)
Method:
Combine the milk and syrup in a suacepan and bring to a boil.
Lower the heat and simmer, whisking frequently, until the liquid evaporates and the mix thickens. In total, I cooked mine for around 30 minutes.
I’ve seen photos around the traps of other vegan coconut condensed milk and somehow they all retain a lovely white hue. I have no idea how!
Let cool before keeping in the fridge in an airtight container for around 3 weeks.
Want to know what I made with it?
Check it out here!
*original recipe here
Hi! Looks delicious. Is it a big (400g) or medium (270g) tin of coconut milk?