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The name really does say it all, you’re simply condensing milk with a sweetener.įast Method – adding sugar to milk changes the nature of it, reducing the risk of scorching your milk. Making homemade sweetened condensed milk is as simple as the ratio.

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Pro Tip: Using your condensed milk for drinks like Thai iced tea or homemade coffee creamer? Reduce your milk less for a thinner, more beverage friendly end result. With whole milk, this yields about 1 cup of condensed milk.įor those using skim, almond, or other thinner milks, to achieve a thicker end result you’ll have to reduce longer and therefore it will yield less. 3 cups (24 ounces) of milk and 1 cup of sugar is the perfect ratio for ideal sweetness and thickening. Making homemade condensed milk is a very simple process! What’s important is the ratio and the time. My advice – keep it simple and inexpensive, just use milk and sugar. If that’s the case, go ahead and add a half teaspoon or so. This is only really desired if you’re cooking past the point of sweetened condensed milk into dulce de leche.

Baking soda, as food scientist reader kindly pointed out, can aid in the caramelizing of the sugars.

Instead, wait to add flavoring until you’re using your sweetened condensed milk in your recipe.

Vanilla may add flavor, but it really, really isn’t needed.

Condensed milk is plenty rich on it’s own.

While butter may lend richness, it also separated in the jar after cooking.

I found each of them completely unnecessary. Other Ingredients – When I first began testing, many recipes called for butter, baking soda, or vanilla. I recommend using only sugar substitutes that can be exchanged in baking as a 1 to 1 replacement.

Stevia or Splenda, or any other sugar alternatives do NOT work the same as sugar.

Since it makes NO difference in flavor, I don’t recommend doing this. I personally have not had any issues with turbanido sugar, but brown sugar has on occasion caused this.

Brown sugar contains molasses and due to the acidity content of molasses, this can cause curdling in your condensed milk.

You can use: Granulated, cane, turbanido, coconut sugar, or even pure maple syrup (so expensive though!).

Using the most expensive cane sugar I could find didn’t produce a better homemade condensed milk than generic granulated sugar.

The sugar you use has a strangely minute effect on final flavor.

However, you again have choices! A few tips, and warnings, to get you going on the right foot.

Sugar – for the most similar flavor to the canned condensed milk, white granulated sugar is my preference.

Depending on your milk choice and you’re intended use, you may need to reduce it less or more than my recipe to get the right thickness.You can use ANY non-dairy milk you want! Almond milk will yield a thinner, runnier condensed milk while coconut will be very thick.Whole cow’s milk is my preference, but you can even use heavy cream if you’re after a seriously luscious final product.

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A full fat milk will yield a creamier, thicker product.Milk – Choosing milk is important! Your choice will absolutely affect the thickness, richness, and flavor of the final product. In an easy, 3 to 1 ratio of milk to sugar, I thought I’d share some tips on choosing the milk and sugar that work for you. Thankfully, homemade sweetened condensed milk is remarkably simple. Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk The Ingredients