dulce de leche crispies

It's kind of obvious that I love the internet, and I do get a lot of recipes online, but nothing quite replaces the old-fashioned cut-out-of-magazines recipe file. I have several. They are completely unorganized and random and I have to look through every single page in order to find the one half-remembered thing I'm looking for, buried among all the other pages. And I wouldn't want it any other way.

So this one's been in the file for several years. I cut it out of Food & Wine sometime around 2007, and every single time I think about making dessert for a party, I think about making it. Once I even went shopping for the ingredients... only to find that Whole Foods didn't have dulce de leche, and I didn't have time to make it from scratch that day, so I ended up taking a cheese plate instead. But hey. It was a pretty awesome cheese plate.

Dulce de Leche Crispies recipe

So if you buy the dulce de leche, or if you have the extra hour and a half to make it (from sweetened condensed milk - it takes longer to do it if you start with milk, which I've never done), the rest of the recipe is pretty easy. First you toast up some Puffed Rice Cereal Such As Rice Krispies But We Don't Dictate Brands Around Here:

 

Then combine the rice with almonds and dulce de leche. Which is seriously easy, right? Then it gets a little trickier to try to form them, since I wanted to shape them precisely, so I dolloped the mixture into a ring mold and pressed it down with the bottom of an oiled jar. They still spread out a little and lost their edges during the 15-minute baking time, so next time I'll either a) do what the original recipe says and dollop them directly onto an oiled sheet, or b) press harder.

But they were super, super delicious.

 
They were verrrry sticky, so I left them out on the counter to dry out, and they were actually much easier to eat the next day. So I recommend making them the day ahead. 

 

Yummy. Sticky. Nutty and crunchy and very much worth the wait.

Comments

[Dulce de Leche]

It looks wonderful and delicious. Cant wait to make this. A perfect delicacy. Cant wait to taste this. I prefer some crunchy snack and this looks perfect. Thanks for sharing..

[judi hendricks]

You could try using cajeta, same as dulce de leche but made from goat's milk. It's much easier to find for some strange reason. I buy it at the farmers' market, but I believe they carry it at Whole Foods.