Dulce de what?

January 13, 2023 9:45 PM

I have about half a cup of homemade dulce de leche. What can I make with it? Reasonably skilled baker/cook but slightly short on time.
posted by matildatakesovertheworld to Food & Drink (12 answers total)

Best answer: Chocolate, Dulce de Leche and Vanilla Marble Cake at David Lebovitz's site needs a quarter cup of dulce de leche for one loaf; you could double the recipe. Lebovitz's simpler dulce de leche brownies recipe requires a full cup, unless you want to try a half-batch.
posted by Iris Gambol at 10:16 PM on January 13, 2023 [3 favorites]

Best answer: Put it on some good vanilla ice cream.
posted by miles1972 at 12:18 AM on January 14, 2023 [5 favorites]

Make your favourite chocolate brownie recipe and swirl the dulce de leche (with a little kosher salt if you like) through the mix just before baking.
posted by altolinguistic at 2:36 AM on January 14, 2023 [7 favorites]

VAT OF DULCE DE MILKSHAKE
posted by lalochezia at 3:26 AM on January 14, 2023 [3 favorites]

You have more than you need for this Nigel Slater recipe for chocolate dulce de leche pots... specifically, I believe you have enough to quadruple the recipe, so eight little pots of deliciousness.
posted by ManyLeggedCreature at 7:20 AM on January 14, 2023 [1 favorite]

Or, vary the other flavour of your pots to make a mix, with some chocolate, some a more traditional flan or crème brûlée, or mix some fruit/berry syrup as a second flavour in the custards along with the dulce de leche. Flan as flan comes out better with a purpose-made flan mold, whereas crème brûlée or any sort of small custard pots benefit from ramekins or small stoneware type soup bowls. But other substitutions to the cooking implements can be made in each case, and they don’t take too long. (Just use the oven broiler on high setting for the brûlée step if you want that; ignore anything that says you need a kitchen blowtorch.)
posted by eviemath at 7:59 AM on January 14, 2023

Ah, should have clicked ManyLeggedCreature’s link before posting my comment. I see now that it is for something more like a lava cake pot, rather than a custard pot. Sorry for the confusion.
posted by eviemath at 8:01 AM on January 14, 2023

In my coffee! Filled cupcakes is another easy choice.
posted by jadepearl at 12:13 PM on January 14, 2023

Alfajores! Obviously the best use for dulce de leche, as selected by millions of Argentines whose supermarkets have dulce de leche sections the way US supermarkets have peanut butter sections.
posted by Superilla at 1:08 PM on January 14, 2023 [2 favorites]

Alfajores or crêpes (panqueques) are the labor-intensive traditional answers. Lazier, healthier, and highly satisfying are just to spread it on apple or banana slices.
posted by dr. boludo at 5:35 AM on January 15, 2023

A tiny version of this no bake wafer cake if you can find these types of wafers and have a few hours to let it soak in before eating (but only a few minutes of work on your part).

Or drizzle it on saltine crackers. Sweet and salty, yum!
posted by never.was.and.never.will.be. at 7:06 PM on January 15, 2023

Response by poster: Made the David Leibovitz cake and it was delicious! Definitely recommend. Ate the remainder over some ice cream
posted by matildatakesovertheworld at 7:51 PM on January 29, 2023 [1 favorite]