Today I'm sharing with ya'll a recipe from Pinterest that I LOVE. This one is fast and easy, and comes from Let's Dish (original recipe here). I have used this recipe most recently as just caramel for other recipes, some I'll share later on this month. Whether you use this easy recipe as a caramel dip or for some soft caramel candies at Christmas, this is probably the perfect recipe for you. Contrary to what the original poster does, I put everything into one container! And it does get sticky. I honestly feel like I've had more caramel on my hands than in the little wax paper squares we've cut up. Also I will probably buy candy wrappers from Amazon for next time, and I might use parchment paper on the microwavable container to save a little bit of my sanity when trying to cut them into pieces. Instructions: 1. Butter your choice of pan, or if you want to go crazy, mold. I use microwavable storage containers, that work for both microwave and cold storage. These are great because it's one container and clean up is easier. 2. If you are using multiple bowls/pans melt butter in a microwaveable bowl. Since I used one container I combined steps 1 & 2, since butter was all in the same place. 3. Pour the corn syrup, brown sugar, white sugar, and sweetened condensed milk into the microwavable container or bowl. Stir the sugar is mostly dissolved. 4. Microwave for about 3 minutes, on high. Microwaves are all different, so start shorter and keep at it until it's slightly bubbly. (You don't want a mess of caramel all over! I did!) 5. Remove from microwave, stir and scrape down the sides of the mixture. 6. Return to the caramel to the microwave and microwave for another 3 minutes on high. 7. At this point you will want to stir in the vanilla, unless you messed up and added it early before microwaving, it won't ruin it, but it's better to wait. 8. At this point if you have it in separate containers immediately pour this into the buttered dish. 9. Put it in the fridge to cool, or set it out. 10. (Optional) You can either eat it straight from the container (like me), or you can attempt to cut it up and put it on squares of wax paper to give as candies. So there you have it some easy microwaved caramels! It's such a sweet little item to share with friends and family, and homemade is best kind of present you can give.
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I absolutely love the snow, maybe because I'm a winter baby, but who knows. I like to believe that snow makes the cold winter air less brutal and more forgiving. Either way snow is one of my favorite things, and I love making snowflakes. This December has been, unfortunately, stressful. I got sick the first week of December, and missed out on going to a Christmas party and then a light parade in Naperville. It wasn't even that cold outside, which made missing the parade worse. On top of all the colds going through my family, I had an allergic reaction to something this weekend. My motivation has been at an all time low, and I just wanted to do something fun for a little bit that would cheer me up. Thus came the snowflake making! When I was in college my junior or maybe senior year (probably both), I spent a lot of my down time making snowflakes. This was my stress relief from all the studying for finals, writing of papers, and just school activities. Maybe I spent too much time making snowflakes, but I graduated....so I guess maybe the stress reliving worked? Either way snowflakes are great, and they are so easy to make. Here are some of my favorite snowflakes I made this year. My favorite "pattern" is cutting little triangles like Christmas trees. So have fun with it! Tape them all over your house (on the inside because paper will disintegrate in the actual snow). Snowflake making is an easy way to decorate at a relatively low cost, and anyone can do it (even my dad)!
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