December 4, 2013

Easy Salted Caramels + KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway

Easy Salted Caramels

My favorite thing about Christmas is the sweet treats. Every year I look forward to assembling our cookie plate, making fudge to give away, and baking for friends and family. Today I am thrilled to be partnering with Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk to discuss easy recipes for holiday sweets and to give away a brand new KitchenAid Stand Mixer to one lucky winner!

I am a big fan of using Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk to make holiday treats. The recipes that they have are fool proof and everything tastes amazing. This week I made two of my favorite recipes of theirs to demonstrate how easily everything can be made. First up, my daughter and I made their Chocolate-Peanut Butter Holiday Fudge.  This luscious fudge was a snap to pull together and was perfect for our recent holiday dessert plate. It was so much fun to help my daughter take the whole recipe from start to finish. It reminded me so much of learning how to bake at my mother’s apron strings!

Next, my daughter asked to make elected to make caramels since they her “most favorite dessert ever.” As most of you know, making caramel is not the easiest of recipes but this method worked beautifully. Adding the condensed milk was ideal because it reduced the cooking time and added just the right amount of sweetness. A little sprinkle of salt on top and they were all set to be wrapped and gifted. In fact, this recipe was so easy I can already see us starting a new yearly tradition of making these together.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

To help sweeten your season Eagle Brand is generously giving away a brand new 4.5 quart tilt head KitchenAid stand mixer and an assortment of Eagle Brand Condensed Milk products to one lucky reader. Yay!! Even better, now through December 14th you can visit Eagle Brand on Pinterest and re-pin your favorite recipes for a chance to win over 100 great prizes, including a mixer and an assortment of terrific holiday baking essentials! Remember to #SweetentheSeason !

KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway

To enter to win:

1) Leave a comment sharing your favorite holiday baking memory

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5) Contest runs from . U.S. Residents only. Winner will be notified in the xx newsletter. If the prize is not claimed within 48 hours it will be awarded to another person.

(Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. The photographs and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the sponsors that make The Naptime Chef possible.)

Easy Salted Caramels

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Yield: about 100

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Ingredients

  • 2 cups granulated sugar
  • ½ cup light corn syrup
  • 1 14-ounce can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
  • Sea salt

Instructions

  1. Prepare an 8x8 glass dish by spraying it with cooking spray and lining it with parchment paper.
  2. In a small saucepan bring the sugar, corn syrup, and ¼ cup water to a boil. Whisk continuously at medium high heat until it turns an amber brown color, about 10 to 12 minutes.
  3. Remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the condensed milk. It will bubble and froth as you add it in. Continue to whisk well. Return the pot to the heat and clip on the candy thermometer. Stir until the mixture reaches 240 degrees F. Then remove it from the heat and pour the caramel into the prepared pan.
  4. Allow the caramel to cool and sprinkle it with sea salt. Then, place the dish in the freezer to chill. Run a sharp knife under hot water. Remove the caramel from the freezer and slice it quickly into ¾-inch squares. Wrap in wax paper or eat the squares immediately. Enjoy!
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159 Responses to “Easy Salted Caramels + KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway”

  1. Thomas Steele says:

    My Mom baking salt rising bread and getting a still warm piece with butter….mmmmmmm.

  2. SuziWalk says:

    My favorite memories are spending time with my mother in the kitchen when I was a young girl. She was always so busy making making sure everything was perfect! Now, with my own daughters, I sure enjoy gathering in the kitchen with them and teaching them the howtos for holiday meals!

  3. anne hill says:

    my favorite baking memory is when i made lemon bars for the first time – its my favorite snack and it was fun to make from scratch

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  6. Sharon says:

    I was just thinking the other day about the fact that my mother, an absolutely excellent home chef, allowed my sisters and I free reign in the kitchen. I loved being responsible for one meal a week when I was a teenager. My all time go to favorite was sweet and sour chicken or pork and I remember executing the steps in the recipe, at first, with nervous anticipation. As I got better and better at cooking, following recipes became unimportant, and instinct took over. I guess I should be sharing more kitchen time with my grandson so that he can be a self-sufficient man!

  7. Parker Poling says:

    My favorite holiday baking tradition is making my husband’s great-grandmother’s recipe for molasses cookies with my girls. A new mixer would mean we could make an extra big batch!

  8. Lisa Brown says:

    1) My favorite holiday memory was when my nana was teaching me to make simple sugar cookies.

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  9. Alexis K. says:

    My favorite baking memories are of making HUNDREDS of spritz cookies every year with my grandmother. The kitchen was covered in flour and sprinkles and I was covered in food coloring, but we had a blast!

  10. Tina Engberg says:

    I loved making cookies with my paternal grandmother when we would go visit her for Christmas. She was an excellent baker (and passed that along to her son, my dad), and had a super recipe for sugar cookies off the back of a Gold Medal flour package. We still have the recipe filed away. It’s fun to stop from the holiday madness and bake cookies from scratch.
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  11. Meredith says:

    Bakefest with my friend D!

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  13. Malissa Wood says:

    my favorite memory would be the year we tried to bake cookies ahead of time so we wouldn’t have to rush to make them for family and somehow we ate them ALL! So we had to rush anyway and remake them but had a lot of fun and a big laugh.

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  16. Val says:

    my best memory is just making oodles and oodles of cookies with no limit on how many we could eat..it was wonderful!

  17. JessieC says:

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  23. Lisa says:

    My sister & I bake every weekend before Christmas together and it’s a tradition we’ve had since we were very young with our mom

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  27. susitravl says:

    Every year from the time I was a little girl till I was 29 and she passed away, Grandma would have me spend a weekend with her and we would bake cookies morning till night. She would give them to families she babysat, church friends, & neighbors for Christmas.

  28. Leela says:

    Making fudge with my grandma.

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  32. Heather says:

    Making sugar cookies with my mom’s vintage cookie cutter

  33. saramama says:

    Making Christmas cookies with my mom every year. Now I do it with my two girls.

  34. PDiekhoff says:

    Making decorated cookies to give to all the neighbors. My mom was always thrifty, so instead of buying paper plates to use as cookie platters, she went to shoe stores, asked for shoe box lids and wrapped them with Christmas paper wrapping. Then we lined the shoe box lids with an assortment of Christmas goodies and delivered the treats to family and friends. My mom recycled even before it was popular!!

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  37. Kate says:

    I loved cooking with my great grandma.

  38. shsc82 says:

    One of my earliest memories is making a special cookie with my mom, it’s one of my favorite memories too, now I make those cookies with my son.

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  42. Mkpez says:

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  46. Carla S says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is teaching my son how to make cookies from scratch for Christmas.

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  52. chatterbox says:

    Making bread in the shape of teddy bears on Christmas Eve.. first with my Mom and brother and now with my own children.

  53. Michelle Rufenacht says:

    I like baking sugar cookies and decorating them. If only I could get my kids to help me!

  54. Nhi Tran says:

    I think my favorite memory is when my mom actually let me and my sisters into the kitchen and making the Christmas Dessert. We made Cranberry bliss bars and some mini cheesecakes.

  55. Karen D says:

    Favorite? When I found a great fruitcake recipe…butter batter and dried fruits and nuts, no candied fruit, and it gained such a following that friends asked for it at Christmas time.

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  60. Beth Reisfeld says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is making mandel bread with my mom. Also, I subscribe to your newsletter and your facebook page, and I liked Eagle Brand and follow them on Pinterest.

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  63. Barbara | Creative Culinary says:

    My favorite holiday memory will always be the times I spent in the kitchen with my Grandma Lizette. She taught me so many fun things and we always had fun baking together. I’ve made her recipe for Pecan Butter Balls every year I can remember since I was a young girl; it sort of keeps her in the kitchen with me on every holiday even though she has been gone 34 years now.

  64. Christine Mayfield says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory was making 9 dozen cookies to give to friends as Christmas gifts. When I got married and moved away permanently my sister would often comment about the Christmas season I spent baking and baking and baking. I can still see the baking pans all over our small kitchen

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  68. Elizabeth says:

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  76. Greg Allbee says:

    I was always the sugar cookie decorator at Christmas. Mom would roll and cut the dough, and I would decorate with the colored sugars and sprinkles.

  77. Laura Scott says:

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  78. jacqui says:

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  81. Angie says:

    My favorite memory is making handmade ornaments for our tree with my mother.

  82. Jess L says:

    My favorite Holiday Memory is my sister and me trying to deciper Santa’s handwriting on the gifts!

  83. Suranna Wallace Michael says:

    Making stepping stones with my kids for their grandparents. My kids range in age now from 25 to 13. My youngest was only 2 and they are still very precious to see in the grandparents flower beds.

  84. Ashley Small says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory happened just this thanksgiving. My mom needed help making everything for the day, so I offered to make the croissants. Everything went fine until it came time to let them rise. We left them out to rise too long, and they came out as hard as bricks (LOL), but it was nice to share that moment back home from college with my mom.

  85. Erin says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is a continuing memory… every year my dad makes toffee, fudge and peanut brittle. It is all so tasty and a staple at every Christmas party!!

  86. miranda says:

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  96. harlie says:

    Baking pumpkin pie and sweet potato pie with my husband

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  99. latanya t says:

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  102. Alice says:

    my favorite baking memories were with my mom in grade school when we could be up late making loads of cookies or cupcakes for some school holiday event the next day after a late night shopping trip to get the required ingredients since I never told her about these things before it was getting to be “too late…” … LOL – frustrating at the time but good memories now.

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  107. Wehaf says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is decorating sugar cookies with my brothers and sisters.

  108. amberlicious says:

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  115. Darlene Parker says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is making sugar cookies with my mother and brother. She would roll out the dough and let us cut out the shapes (reindeers, Christmas trees, bells, and stars). As soon as she took them out of the oven, she gave us each a plateful to decorate with green and red sprinkles and those little silver dragees.

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    I already get your newsletter and I’m on your facebook.
    My favorite holiday baking memory would have to be rolling out cookie dough and cutting shapes with my best friends 3 kids. We had flour all over the place and the kids got really creative. The youngest made a reindeer pulling a sleigh (super huge cookie). Tomorrow we get to frost them!!

  121. alex says:

    My favorite holiday memory is waking up on the morning of hosting our annual holiday dinner for friends and family and making the brownies for dessert while my mom would work on side dishes for dinner

  122. Stephanie Phelps says:

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  126. Ashley Outland says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is baking gingerbread men with my grandma as a kid!!

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  131. Gwen Bell says:

    my favorite holiday baking memory is making christmas cookies with my mom and having so much fun cutting and decorating the santas.

  132. HollyStormBurge says:

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  133. Becky T. says:

    My favorite childhood memory is watching my Mom make caramels in the kitchen. Now that I’ve retired, I’m baking to my heart’s delight and KitchenAid is helping me do it!

  134. Julie E. says:

    Every year I love to make a HUGE batch of sugar cookies for my family. This year, I can’t wait to make them with the help of my 2 1/2 year old daughter. I think the best baking memories are about to begin! 🙂

  135. Sarah H.P. says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is of my mom, sister, and I spending an entire day in the kitchen at the beginning of December baking dozens of Christmas cookies for family and friends!

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  138. Laura_at_Frugal_Follies says:

    I recall making gingerbread men with friends. Thanks for the great giveaway!

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  140. Cristina Lopez says:

    My favorite Christmas baking memory is just being in the kitchen along my mom, grandmother and great grandmother, 4 generations making cookies, sharing and passing down secrets. Its a tradition I plan on maintaining with my own children. Hopefully with the help of a KitchenAid mixer 😉

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  148. april yedinak says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is making sugar cookie cutouts with my kids and my nephew while we listened to Christmas music. Everyone had fun, especially with the decorating. We made a huge mess, ate all of our ‘mistakes’ and then delivered all the rest to our neighbors. I love that memory so much that I used the photos for this year’s Christmas card.

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  152. Rust says:

    My favorite holiday memory is sitting around the dinner table all day cracking and shelling pecans for Christmas baking.

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  156. Cassandra Eastman says:

    My favorite holiday baking memory is baking cinnamon rolls with my grandma, she showed me how!

  157. Betty Brown says:

    My favorite baking memory is .
    Helping my mama make Christmas Cakes !!!!

  158. danyelle says:

    My favorite memories are baking with my mom as a kid the week of Christmas. We’d make fudge, cakes and cookies.