Bourbon Caramel Candy Recipe - A Spicy Perspective (2024)

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How to melt hard caramel candies? ›

Instructions. Melt Werther's Original Caramels with half and half, salt and vanilla in medium saucepan over medium heat until smooth, stirring occasionally. Serve immediately with assorted fruit, cookie, pretzels, marshmallows, nuts or cubed pound cake.

The water evaporates, leaving sugar crystals behind. If even one sugar crystal falls back into the pan of cooking caramel, it starts a chain reaction of sugar crystals and the entire pan will harden. The result? Gross, grainy caramel that is unusable in most recipes.

Caramel squares melt quickly for use as a dip or topping. The caramels come individually wrapped in the package, so you can use as many squares as you need while leaving the rest wrapped for later use. Melted caramel sauce provides the traditional coating for candy apples.

Yes, anyone can melt Werther's Original hard candy. Werther's Original is a popular brand of caramel candies, and they can be melted to create a delicious caramel sauce or used in various recipes.

Cook, stirring, over medium heat until sugar dissolves, then bring to a boil. Without stirring, heat to 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C), or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads. Remove from the heat and stir in flavored extract and food coloring.

This is usually caused by sugar crystals stuck to the side of the pan that didn't get fully dissolved. It only takes one to set off a chain reaction, and before you know it you have crunchy caramel.

If the candy forms a firm but not hard ball, it is in the firm ball stage. The temperature of this stage is between 242—248°F. Caramels are cooked to the firm ball stage. If the candy forms thick threads when it drips from the spoon, it is in the hard ball stage or 250°—265°F.

Some form of dairy — typically butter and/or heavy cream — is usually added to the mixture at either the beginning or the end of cooking. This addition makes the caramel richer, thicker, and lighter in color, lending more viscosity and rounder flavor.

After the caramel cools down, pour it into a glass jar or container. Refrigerate for up to 1 month. The caramel solidifies as it cools, but you can reheat in the microwave or on the stove so it's liquid again.

How to melt Werther's? ›

Place Werther's Original Soft Caramels and milk in a 1-quart microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high, stirring frequently until smooth, about 2 minutes. For best results, let melted caramel cool for a few seconds before dipping. Dip apples in melted caramel mixture using a spoon to cover.

To melt caramels using a microwave, open up a bag of soft caramels, unwrap the individual candies, and place them in a microwave-safe dish. Next, add milk to the bowl, or if you'd like a richer treat, add heavy cream instead. Then, place the bowl in the microwave and heat the caramels on HIGH for 1 minute.

If the temperature gets too hot and the caramel becomes too hard as it cools, you can put it back in the pan with a couple of tablespoons of cold water to try and save it.

Combine caramels and water in a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave mixture in 30-second increments, stirring between each increment, until caramels begin to melt, about 1 to 1 1/2 minutes.

Adding heat means adding energy—and for most solids the hotter the water, the easier and faster it is to dissolve the solid. Heated molecules move around more so the dissolved substance will disperse more quickly than in unheated water.