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Cream Caramels

A sweet treat made by melting fondant with cream, adding color and flavor, thickening with icing sugar, then setting and cutting into squares.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cream Caramels

Ingredients

Directions

Make the paste

  1. Melt the fondant very slowly with the cream.

  2. Add colouring and flavouring, then enough icing sugar to form a stiff paste.

  3. Beat the mixture well.

Set and cut

  1. Pour it into a long flat tin lined with grease‑proof paper.

  2. When set, cut into squares with a caramel cutter.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Fondant
Provides the sugar base that melts smooth and then sets firm as it cools.
Cream
Adds fat and moisture, giving the caramel a softer, creamier texture.
Icing sugar
Stiffens the melted mixture into a paste that holds its shape when set.

The step that matters

Melt the fondant very slowly with the cream. Slow, gentle heat melts the sugar evenly without scorching it or letting it crystallise, which would leave the caramel grainy or with a burnt taste.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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