Dulce de leche...what is it really SUPPOSED to be used for

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I just eat it from the jar with a spoon. That is probably NOT it's whole life's purpose.
Any idea, please

The gooey but in a bannofee pie?

bit !!!

Keep talking....I am liking it so far

What do I do then. Pastry...and then what?

When I first had it in Mexico the family I was with had it on toast. It was a bit much first thing but this is the country where Coca Cola is made especially sweeter!

Very nice on the top of a vanilla cheesecake.

Spread on bread like Nutella.

Spoonful in coffee is sublime.

I made banana and dulce la leche cupcakes with caramel and lime icing. Sublime, they were.

So if I put it on toast it is CLEARLY better for me than eating it with a teaspoon. Sort of like Nutella?

mmeL recipe please if you have a mo, that sounds RIDICULOUSLY delicious

Yes ! No butter though. And on pancakes.

Norks
I am not sure if I still have it - might be in the still in storage stuff. Will look when I get home to Scotland next week. I only made them once for some stupid reason.

oh, I remember - getting dulce de leche was tricky in Switzerland, so I only managed them once.

In Argentina - which is where I think it comes from - they eat use it in all sorts of desserts, kind of how we use jam. So it's often a filling in cakes or biscuits. They put it on pancakes. They spread it on toast.

My preferred way of eating it is with a spoon

I use it for caramel cupcakes. Yummy!

I made a chocolate eclair cheesecake out of it. Bloody hell.

It is definitley a South and Central America thing. I first came across it in Argentina where our hosts seemed to serve Dulce de Leche cakes at tea time every day along with Matte tea which is mildly narcotic.

It's not so sweet if you get it with added sea salt. I have that and I have it on top of my ice cream that's served next to fresh walnut brownies.

When I'm feeling grown up, I use it in banoffee pie (I'm afraid of exploding cans).

When I want nursery food, I pour it into a pastry case, scatter sprinkles over the top, and serve it luke warm, like the primary school puddings we used to have.

It's SO good, isn;t it? It's eaten throughout central and south america, in all sorts of ways as Rosa mentions. And you can get it in really big vats tubs there.

On toast/bread, on pancakes for breakfast, on a spoon for because, in biscuits called alfajores, which are kinda like 2 shortbread rounds sandwiched together with DdL, and covered in chocolate, then sometimes rolled in coconut...

And be careful if you're travelling through central and south america as I did, as the colloquial word for Dulce de Leche in Mexico means, ahem, cunt in Chilean slang.

Nice Lady: What do you want on your bread today?
Me: Cunt. I love it.
All other faces in room: horrified.

Hazel .

I'm never going to look at the stuff in quite the same way again!

I'll be honest, it did not stop me troughing the stuff (dulce de leche).
Not one iota!

What is it?

Is it like condensed milk??

cat - You know the caramel you get on a banoffi pie? It's that. In a can.