Homemade Caramels
Day 5 of our 20 Days of Christmas is a recipe that I made this week. Caramels are my very favorite, I would pick Caramel over Chocolate any day of the week. I have never made homemade caramels and decided this year it was time to try. They were really easy to make but took some time to package them all up. 🙂
These Caramels would make a yummy little neighbor, teacher, or friend gift. Or would be really cute adding to your cookie trays at Christmas.
Homemade Caramels
Ingredients
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 ½ cups corn syrup
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Butter a 9x13 inch dish.
- In a heavy saucepan, combine sugar, corn syrup, 1 cup cream and butter. Bring to a boil, stirring often, then stir in remaining 1 cup cream. Heat, without stirring, to 242 degrees F (116 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms a firm but pliable ball. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla, and pour into prepared dish. Refrigerate.
- When cool, return candies to room temperature then cut into 1 inch squares and wrap in waxed paper.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Wow, I just found some wonderful treats for the holidays...I cannot wait to make the caramel and the thin mints. Nice new addition to our holiday baking. I can see I will be visiting this site often. thanks for all your hard work. Marie from Canada
what did you use for wrappers? I noticed it is not waxed paper , and looks great!
I just cut up cellophane and used it. I happened to have a roll on hand and wanted to use what I had. 🙂
These look fantastic! So glad I found your blog. I'd love for you to link these up to my weekly link party. http://thelifeofjenniferdawn.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-little-bird-told-me-link-party-20.html
Sweet idea. Pinned your recipe:) New follower. Follow me back. I posted http://www.sewsweetvintage.com/2012/12/impossibly-sweet-ikea-and-trujoy-gluten.html to ginger snap:)
Yuum! These look so good and they are adorable all wrapped up! Thanks for sharing