Goat-Milk Caramel (Cajeta)

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Cuisine: Mexican | Course Type: Sauces/Gravies

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Tags: caramel dulce de leche cajeta

Recipe Review

Sweet, creamy, caramel goodness with a hint of cinnamon.

I used full fat (3.25%) goat’s milk for this recipe and added vanilla bean seeds and the pod at the start along with the cinnamon stick as I had decided not to flavour it with alcohol. Make sure your pot is large enough to handle twice the volume of milk and then some because that’s how much it foamed when I added the baking soda.

For the first 25 minutes of cooking –it took 35 for mine– not much seemed to happen and only occasional stirring was required. But once it became a “pale gold syrup”, full attention was required. When the instructions say to stir the mixture very frequently, it means constantly, otherwise you’ll end up with a scorched mess. The finished consistency is as the author describes, like thin corn syrup.

I’ve made cajeta before using a different recipe and cow’s milk and though the other was less sweet, which is my preference, this one is far more complex and has the subtle but distinctive flavour of goat’s milk.

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Comments

Queezle_Sister - 2nd May 2012
Just curious - where is your different recipe from? I'm on the hunt for goat's milk!

Zosia - 2nd May 2012
It's an Alice Medrich recipe for "dulce de leche"...I used it for the alfajores I reviewed on this site. Here's a link to the recipe:
http://www.kare11.com/life/recipes/recipes_article.aspx?storyid=882464&catid=59

This one gets cooked down a little more than the cajeta recipe.

andrew - 2nd May 2012
Oddly enough, goat's milk is really easy to find here - it's available in the dairy section of any supermarket. I'm going to make this today if I can squeeze out the time this afternoon.

Oh and I highly recommend alfajores - they are amazing cookies!

Queezle_Sister - 3rd May 2012
And here i've never even heard of them!
Once farmer's market season arrives, I will be able to get goat's milk, but I might not be willing to wait that long.

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