The Case of the Sticky Icky Autos

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Here’s the basic caramel recipe:

Betty’s Cheba Chews
makes 26-30 chewy caramels

Ingredients
1 ¼ cup white sugar
½ cup budder
¾ cup sweetened condensed milk
7 tbsp golden syrup (cane syrup)
1 tbsp molasses
1 tsp vanilla
¼ tsp salt

1. Add sugar to a good non-stick pan and place over low heat; you’re going to SLOWLY melt the sugar into an amber syrup (could take 30 minutes), stirring frequently and making sure nothing burns.
   *After about 15 minutes
   
   

*After about 30 minutes, sugar fully melted:

2. Once the sugar is completely melted remove from heat and stir in cane syrup and molasses; it will bubble and look awful; return to heat an allow it all to melt together.

*Immediately after adding syrup & molasses:

*After approximately 2 minutes constant stirring over low/med heat:

3. Remove from heat and stir in milk; return to heat, constantly stirring, until milk fully incorporated, approx 1 minute.
   

   

4. Remove from heat and slowly stir in budder and salt; you want the budder as thoroughly incorporated/emulsified into the sugar mix as possible, then return to heat and cook til mixture reaches 238F-240F for 2 minutes.

*Immediately after adding budder and salt:

*Caramel is fully cooked:

5. Remove from heat & stir in vanilla. Then, pour caramel into parchment lined pan and allow to cool completely at room temperature.
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6. A) Once ready, I’ll cut it up into pieces & wrap them in parchment, a la salt water taffy.
   B) half of these will get drizzled with weed chocolate before being wrapped
   Weed Chocolate
   1/4 cup budder
   6 oz dark chocolate
   ½ tbsp espresso powder
   –melt together and stir til smooth

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I’ll post more pics once complete.