No eggs...but lots of dairy!

Now we are a full fledged dairy house, caramel has become a favourite. So tonite I thought I would bake up some treats with caramel.

First up Caramel drops.... a slight variation to the jammie drops I usually make. I've included the receipe as they are so delicious you really should try them.

Cookie mix

80g butter softened

1/3 cup sugar

2 tablespoons milk

teaspoon vanilla

1 cup self raising flour

1/3 cup custard powder (sometimes I use Banana flavoured custard powder - yummo)

Caramel

400g can condensed milk

125g butter

1/3 cup white sugar

1/3 cup golden syrup

Directions:

1 Preheat oven to 180 degreesC

2 beat butter and sugar till light and creamy

3 add milk and vanilla

4 add flour and custard powder and mix on slower speed to create a soft dough.

Somedays my dough is really tight together and other days it is a bit sticky. you can add small amounts of flour to make it less sticky but either consistency is fine.

5 roll little balls of mixture together, place on tray/rack and press in middle with your thumb

6 bake for 10 to 15 mins depending on your oven. I check them as soon as they smell good cause I dont like them too brown.

7 Now to the caramel - Combine all ingredients over LOW heat in a small pan. Continually stir for roughly 15 mins till sugar has dissolved and the mixture starts to thicken up and change colour slightly to a caramel colour. You can turn up the heat but be careful as it burns easily.

8 remove from the heat and cool slightly

9 fill the centres of the biscuits with caramel.

10 EAT THEM!

I had caramel left over which I put into some vanilla cupcakes, just dolloped onto of each cupcake and then mixed it through slightly before cooking - They are also delicious.

Happy Caramel cooking x