You can eat them plain, toasted, melted on a grill or fireplace, burnt, frozen, you name it.
You can also cook them. However, you do not want to cook too long. Example of cooking htem includes rice krispie treats and sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. They can burn easily in the oven.
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To make caramel for caramel apples, you can melt sugar and butter in a saucepan, then add cream and vanilla extract. Cook the mixture until it reaches the desired consistency, then dip your apples in the caramel and let them cool before enjoying.
To make caramel thicker, you can cook it for a longer period of time or add a thickening agent like cornstarch or cream. Stirring the caramel constantly while it cooks can also help it thicken.
To thicken caramel effectively, cook it for a longer period of time over low heat, stirring constantly to prevent burning. You can also add a small amount of cornstarch or cream to help thicken the caramel.
Roasted Pears with Caramel Sauce is quite good. Fine Cooking magazine has the recipe.
To make caramel from evaporated milk on the stove, combine evaporated milk, sugar, and butter in a saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and turns a caramel color. Be careful not to burn it.
when cooking your caramel you want to have a hi temp candy thermometer. do not take the temp over 244 degrees. at this temp you will have a good caramel perfect for dipping apples or pretzels. you do want to let the caramel "setup"(rest) for on average 10 minutes after the cooking process. if you want softer caramel just reduce the cook temp. for sauce i suggest stopping at approx 212-214 degrees. the higher the temperature the harder the caramel will be.
Sugar is essentially a solid form raw caramel. once sugar is melted, it is cooked. that is where caramel comes from. you cannot 'un-cook' something. so after it is caramel you can't change it back to sugar. but, if the caramel is in a solid form, you can melt it back to a liquid form.
To thicken caramel sauce effectively, you can cook it for a longer period of time over low heat, or add a thickening agent like cornstarch or flour. Stirring constantly can also help thicken the sauce.
Some caramel desserts are zeppole with caramel whiskey sauce, caramel apples, marshmallows wrapped with caramel, and caramel-pecan topped brownies. Some additional caramel desserts are homemade Snickers bars, brandied caramel apple tarts, salted caramel pecan pie, and chocolate-caramel crumb bars.
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It can be, at least for the yellow-brown color of caramel (burnt sugar). Other uses of caramel are a noun, or a noun adjunct (caramel apple, caramel candy).