Modern housewives are accustomed to buying almost everything at the store, and boiled condensed milk is no longer a shortage. But here the quality of the product, even among manufacturers that have proven themselves on the positive side, often leaves much to be desired. Therefore, those who are accustomed to natural products will find useful information on how to cook condensed milk in various ways, and what desserts can be prepared with this ingredient.
How to cook condensed milk at home
There are several ways to get a healthy and aromatic delicacy, the taste of which will be “the same”, natural, from childhood. Choose the most convenient, take a couple of minutes to prepare, a few hours to cook and proceed.
Classic cooking
Despite the prohibitions of producers of condensed milk, the classic way to cook boiled condensed milk was to cook it in a can. How much to cook condensed milk in a jar, and how to prevent general cleaning in the kitchen with washing the sweet milk-caramel mass from the walls and ceiling, are not idle questions.
Therefore, do not depart from the algorithm below:
- In a large pan, put a jar of condensed milk and pour it with water to the highest possible level so as not to often add water during cooking. Send the pan to the stove and wait for the active gurgling of water.
- After boiling, cook condensed milk for a couple of hours, if in the future it is planned to use it for preparing creams in cakes or pastries. To get a thicker and darker composition (for example, to fill the "nuts"), it is necessary to cook condensed milk about an hour longer.
- In the process of cooking, you need to make sure that the jar is not "naked" and, if necessary, add hot water to the pan. Having finished the heat treatment, the jar should be left to cool in the water in which it was boiled. Fulfilling these two conditions will help to avoid an epic explosion.
When choosing condensed milk for cooking, you need to carefully study its composition on the label. A quality product should not include anything other than dairy products and sugar. Condensed milk with palm oil in the composition may be better left on the shelf of the store.
Do-it-yourself boiled condensed milk
Not only from a store product can you cook boiled condensed milk. It is quite possible to make it from sugar and whole cow’s milk, having spent at that time not much more than with the classical method.
One and a half liters of home-cooked condensed milk should be taken:
- 3000 ml of whole cow's milk (better than home-made, not store-bought);
- 1000 g of granulated sugar;
- 45 ml of lemon juice;
- 5 g of soda.
Cooking method:
- Send milk and sugar in a saucepan of a suitable capacity to the fire and heat, stirring continuously, until sugar is completely dissolved.
- When the composition boils, remove the pan from the stove, add lemon juice and soda to its contents. Milk will begin to foam actively. Now it should be vigorously mixed and returned to the fire.
- From the moment of boiling again, take time and boil the condensed milk over medium heat for three hours. During this time, the milk will darken and thicken.
- In the process of cooking, you need to not only periodically mix the composition, but also take a sample for readiness. If a drop of milk does not spread on a cold saucer, boiled condensed milk is ready. The finished product should be poured into half-liter jars for further storage.
Cooking in the oven
Condensed milk, which is sold not in cans, but in tetrapacks, cannot be cooked in a saucepan in the classical way. For such a product, cooking in the oven is more suitable.
The sequence of actions will be as follows:
- Pour condensed milk into a metal or glass heat-resistant container and cover this container from above with a sheet of food foil.
- Place the container with milk in another container with water so that the liquid level reaches the middle of the height of the condensed milk in the mold.
- Then put condensed milk for 2 - 3 hours in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. If necessary, add boiling water during the cooking process. Remove the cooked condensed milk from the oven, free from foil and use as intended.
The easiest way to microwave
Owners of microwave ovens should know how to cook condensed milk with this device. Moreover, the whole process will take no more than 8 minutes.
The microwave cooking algorithm is as follows:
- Pour condensed milk into a ceramic or glass dish and place in the microwave for 2 minutes. The power of the device should be set at 700 watts.
- After the sound signal, stir the condensed milk and send again to the microwave for 2 minutes. It is important to ensure that the milk does not run away and warms evenly, so it must be mixed. Repeat this periodic heating no more than 4 times.
Having brought the product to the desired consistency and color, it can be used for its intended culinary purpose.
Cooked condensed milk baking recipes
Of course, there is natural boiled condensed milk with just a spoon - a pleasure that cannot be achieved, even with the help of the "paradise" Bounty bar. However, baked goods with condensed milk may turn out to be even more delicious. Cakes, pastries, cookies with such a component come out just fabulously delicious.
Cream of boiled condensed milk and butter
This cream is suitable as a filling for various homemade cakes made of biscuit, honey, puff or waffle cakes, as well as all kinds of cakes and cookies.
Proportions of ingredients for its preparation:
- 380 g of boiled condensed milk;
- 200 g of softened butter;
- 20 - 40 g of powdered sugar;
- 5 ml of liquor (or other alcohol for flavor).
We prepare as follows:
- Beat soft butter with powdered sugar until white and fluffy. Separately, do the same with boiled condensed milk.
- Then combine both masses by mixing them with a silicone spatula.
- At the end of the preparation, add some liquor for the aroma. The cream is ready.
Classic cookies "Nuts"
Unsightly condensed milk, boiled in a jar in a pan, can be a great filling for homemade nuts cookies.
To bake it, you must prepare:
- 2 eggs;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 250 g butter;
- 8 g of vanilla sugar;
- 3 g of salt;
- 5 g of slaked soda;
- 320 g flour;
- 380 g of boiled condensed milk;
- kernels of any nut at the rate of one kernel per one "nut".
A step-by-step recipe for baking the sweetest, high-calorie and such amazingly delicious "nuts" in the world:
- Before starting kneading the dough, melt the oil and leave it to cool slightly, but continue to be liquid.
- Grind eggs with sugar and salt with a hand whisk until smooth. Then pour in liquid oil, stir, add slaked soda and flour.
- Send the finished shortcrust pastry to the refrigerator for an hour, so that it would be easier to work with it later.
- Lubricate the “nuts” baking dish (hazel) with vegetable oil. Roll balls with a diameter of sweet cherry from the dough and put them into the recesses of the mold. Do not make larger blanks, otherwise the dough will certainly try to escape during the baking process.
- On a small fire, bake the nuts for one to two minutes on each side. Finished portions very carefully take out and cool.
- Then it remains only to collect the "shells", filling them with boiled condensed milk and hiding a nut kernel in each.
Delicious cupcakes
The thick consistency of boiled condensed milk allows you to use it as a filling for muffins. Such pastries with a delicious milk surprise will appeal to both adults and children.
The proportions of the products included in its composition are as follows:
- 1 egg
- 80 g of sugar;
- 200 ml of milk;
- 200 ml of vegetable oil;
- 3.5 g of vanillin;
- 2.5 g of salt;
- 7 g of baking powder;
- 250 g of flour;
- 190 g of boiled condensed milk.
The sequence of culinary processes:
- Foam the egg with a whisk, along with sugar, pour in milk and vegetable oil, and blot everything out again.
- Then add loose components (flour, vanillin, salt and baking powder). The finished dough should be as thick as sour cream.
- In a greased silicone molds put a tablespoon of dough, on top of it - a teaspoon of boiled condensed milk. We hide the delicious filling under the second portion of the dough.
- Cook cupcakes in the oven at 180 ° C for approximately 30 to 40 minutes. The cooled cupcakes can be decorated with icing sugar.
Waffle cake with boiled condensed milk
Having at hand a package of ready-made waffle cakes and a jar of boiled condensed milk, you can prepare a delicious cake in just a couple of minutes.
For one such dessert you will need:
- 6 to 8 waffle cakes;
- 380 g of boiled condensed milk;
- 100 g of soft butter;
- 100 g chopped roasted peanuts;
- 50 - 70 g of chocolate.
Working process:
- Beat condensed milk with softened butter until fluffy.
- To assemble a cake from ready-made cakes, interlaying them with the composition obtained in the previous step.
- Top off the dessert with cream and sprinkle with crushed peanuts.
- Melt the chocolate and use a cornetik to apply a chaotic pattern of viscous sweet threads on top of the nuts.
- Give the cake about an hour to soak, or you can serve it right away, cut into portions.
Bagels with "dumpling"
For lush bagels on a yeast dough stuffed with boiled condensed milk, you should prepare:
- 200 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar (of which 50 g - in the dough);
- 1 egg
- 150 ml of milk;
- 50 g of yeast;
- 630 g flour;
- 370 g of boiled condensed milk.
Baking Method:
- Dissolve sugar and yeast in milk. Pour in an egg that has been loosened to homogeneity and melted butter. Add flour in small parts, knead the dough.
- Allow the mass to stand in heat until it increases in volume by two to three times. Then it’s good to knead it, divide it into three parts, each of which is rolled into a circle. Cut blanks into segments of convenient size.
- On the edge of each serving, put the stuffed condensed milk, roll everything into a roll, roll in sugar and bake until golden brown in the oven, heated to 180 - 190 degrees.
Pastries with boiled condensed milk can be quite varied and always delicious. But taking up its preparation, it is worth remembering that the result will largely depend on the quality of the starting products. In this regard, it is worth spending a little time and preparing a “varenka” on your own, because you now know enough about how to do this!