Fantastic Bake Along – Crazy Caramels

Published on by Tracy @ It's a T-Sweets Day!

Wait–Did I say Caramels? Yes, I did! This week I learned to make my first ever batch of gluten free/Vegan candy. I am happy to report that they turned out to be quite good!

I want to thank this month’s star baker, AJ @ A Petite Slice of Life for the fun adventure!

I really liked how few of ingredients were needed to make this recipe.

The recipe didn’t call for nuts, but at my house, we put nuts in almost everything. What can I say? We are all nuts around here:)!

I put the ingredients, minus the nuts and vanilla in my cooking pan and started to heat the sugar up.

It started clear, went to bubbly, and finally to cloudy. I added the vanilla at the end.

I put a cup or two of chopped nuts in the bottom of a greased baking pan.

I then poured the hot mixture over the nuts. It was weird, but the oil kind of separated, and I could not get it to combine into the caramel.

So… I just threw it out. That was a lot of oil!

Oh well, I placed the pan in the fridge and waited for an hour or so. When I pulled it out, the caramel was crisp and had a pretty white coconut oil coating.

It was very easy to get out of the pan by just turning the pan over and tapping it on the counter. It came out in one piece. Yea!

I enlisted the help of my favorite, cute husband with the cutting of the caramel because of my cast. He did a spectacular job!

He cut them into small, bite sized pieces. I think this was the key. If they are too big, you can’t put them all in your mouth at one time. They are quite sticky, so I liked not having to try to bite into them..

Once again, this was a FANTASTIC Bake Along. In fact, you might say that it was SWEET! If any of you are interested in trying your hand at Caramels, you can find the recipe here.

Thank you so much for dropping by today. I hope you have a moment or two to see how the other bakers fared in their kitchen’s this week:)

Until next time,

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  3. Okay Tracy, where do you live? I’m on my way…do I need a car? a plane? Hurry up and tell me, because I am drooling over those! From past experience, I know that blogs cause squirrels, which I call DrEAMi (Drop Everything And Make It) moments, but now I’m getting those same things but to go and make FOOD! Gorgeous photos btw. I may have liked my laptop screen….

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    1. I will get the guest room ready and the ingredients ready Sandra! I LOVE your DrEAMi jargon❤️. I am going to have to add that one to my vocabulary:). I think there might be a few lick marks on my screen as well….lol😊. Too bad computers don’t come with a tasting/smelling app!

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