Was gifted dulce de leche from a Mexican colleague. Unsure how to consume it. Are there some good bakes that use it?
Was gifted dulce de leche from a Mexican colleague. Unsure how to consume it. Are there some good bakes that use it?
by AbbeyRoadMoonwalk
27 Comments
External-Presence204
Put it on really good vanilla ice cream.
Dip apples in it.
I mean, it’s basically good caramel sauce.
Bill__Q
Make an apple pie and mix it in with the filling
ughasif666
cookies, sandwiches, churros, crèpes, drizzled over ice cream, baguettes, croissants…basically anything (I’m Mexican and have lived in Mexico all my life). Think of the versatility of peanut butter: Just like that, so a spoon also works. OH MY GOD cornbread. I just remembered it goes great on cornbread. Google the Mexican cornbread ‘pan de elote’. It’s easier and better in my Mexican opinion.
kit-kat315
I like to make dulce de leche cupcakes. Yellow cupcakes with a scoop cut out and filled with dulce de leche, then more dulce whipped into a vanilla buttercream. Sometimes I do macarons with the buttercream instead.
RoboticDiscoFlamingo
Try sandwiching some in between 2 snickerdoodles. Heavenly
OneQt314
In Asian countries, the French taught locals to dip [french] bread into condense milk as a snack, you can do this with dolce de leche. You can add it to your coffee too.
Lots you can do!
aftermobster
Filling for cupcakes 🤔🤔🤔
fragileshield
Maybe try alfajores! They are dulce de leche sandwich cookies.
JMJimmy
Cheese cake, flan, cupcakes… you name it
alcohall183
I’ve always eaten it straight up like fudge.. by my family has a serious sweet tooth.
GeophysicsSharkie
I’ve had tres leches cake topped with this, delicious!
WickedCoolUsername
Interesting tidbit. Google says cajeta is made from goats milk. I would use it the way everyone has suggested.
When we would get these in Mexico, my family would break off some of the wooden lid and use it as a spoon and eat it straight from the container. If memory serves correctly, this has a thin layer of hardened sugar – like creme brulee – and the actual cajeta is lighter in color than traditional dulce de leche.
girlwhoweighted
It’s basically caramel. Use it as such
jcpianiste
Weird suggestion, but try dipping some gruyere cheese in it! Soooo good.
EmmCee325
When my son was in middle school, we made a cake for a school project that had dulce de Leche whipped cream filling and it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten. Whip cream, carefully fold in dulce de Leche. All that was left over after filling the cake was eaten with a spoon. That was with La Lechera out of a can, so with good stuff…
I can’t eat dairy anymore, but remembering this makes me want to experiment with non-dairy options again.
klmonion
Truly excellent on vanilla ice cream. Also a nice topping for a fancy looking chocoflan.
(BTW: For US readers, an unsolicited enthusiastic recommendation for Josefa brand cajeta sold in jars on the big A. Simply the best taste and texture available commercially!)
sixtedly
honestly just by the spoonful tbh those were my favorite sweet treat to eat as a child, you really cannot go wrong with any way you have one of those!
ughasif666
there’s also cajeta ice cream in my hometown. It goes great with chocolate ice cream and with coffee ice cream and with coconut ice cream and with vanilla ice cream and with pecan ice cream.
DamaSedalar
Spoon, meet mouth. Every time i get it i try to use it other ways, but i inevitably end up spooning it in 😂
Total-Law4620
A spoon
PotatoChan88
Banoffee pie!
WiseSalamander00
that kind of cajeta is meant to be eaten directly with a spoon… is basically candy, source: I am Mexican and I have in fact been to the town where that is from.
La-Reine-des-Enfers
In my personal opinion, just eat it straight out of the wooden container.
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Put it on really good vanilla ice cream.
Dip apples in it.
I mean, it’s basically good caramel sauce.
Make an apple pie and mix it in with the filling
cookies, sandwiches, churros, crèpes, drizzled over ice cream, baguettes, croissants…basically anything (I’m Mexican and have lived in Mexico all my life). Think of the versatility of peanut butter: Just like that, so a spoon also works. OH MY GOD cornbread. I just remembered it goes great on cornbread. Google the Mexican cornbread ‘pan de elote’. It’s easier and better in my Mexican opinion.
I like to make dulce de leche cupcakes. Yellow cupcakes with a scoop cut out and filled with dulce de leche, then more dulce whipped into a vanilla buttercream. Sometimes I do macarons with the buttercream instead.
Try sandwiching some in between 2 snickerdoodles. Heavenly
In Asian countries, the French taught locals to dip [french] bread into condense milk as a snack, you can do this with dolce de leche. You can add it to your coffee too.
Lots you can do!
Filling for cupcakes 🤔🤔🤔
Maybe try alfajores! They are dulce de leche sandwich cookies.
Cheese cake, flan, cupcakes… you name it
I’ve always eaten it straight up like fudge.. by my family has a serious sweet tooth.
I’ve had tres leches cake topped with this, delicious!
Interesting tidbit. Google says cajeta is made from goats milk. I would use it the way everyone has suggested.
[alfajores are my favorite dulce de leche treat](https://www.piesandtacos.com/alfajor-recipe/)
I was gonna say alfajores, or make some [brownies](https://youtu.be/eAb4Ku56TsE?si=rQnAW0F86CA4Da_j) and swirl some dollops of it over the top.
When we would get these in Mexico, my family would break off some of the wooden lid and use it as a spoon and eat it straight from the container. If memory serves correctly, this has a thin layer of hardened sugar – like creme brulee – and the actual cajeta is lighter in color than traditional dulce de leche.
It’s basically caramel. Use it as such
Weird suggestion, but try dipping some gruyere cheese in it! Soooo good.
When my son was in middle school, we made a cake for a school project that had dulce de Leche whipped cream filling and it was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten. Whip cream, carefully fold in dulce de Leche. All that was left over after filling the cake was eaten with a spoon. That was with La Lechera out of a can, so with good stuff…
I can’t eat dairy anymore, but remembering this makes me want to experiment with non-dairy options again.
Truly excellent on vanilla ice cream. Also a nice topping for a fancy looking chocoflan.
(BTW: For US readers, an unsolicited enthusiastic recommendation for Josefa brand cajeta sold in jars on the big A. Simply the best taste and texture available commercially!)
honestly just by the spoonful tbh those were my favorite sweet treat to eat as a child, you really cannot go wrong with any way you have one of those!
there’s also cajeta ice cream in my hometown. It goes great with chocolate ice cream and with coffee ice cream and with coconut ice cream and with vanilla ice cream and with pecan ice cream.
Spoon, meet mouth.
Every time i get it i try to use it other ways, but i inevitably end up spooning it in 😂
A spoon
Banoffee pie!
that kind of cajeta is meant to be eaten directly with a spoon… is basically candy, source: I am Mexican and I have in fact been to the town where that is from.
In my personal opinion, just eat it straight out of the wooden container.
Consume it with a fucking straw.