Super sweet, chewy, soft – these homemade five spice caramels are a real treat. They are enriched with 5 spices blend: fennel, cinnamon, cloves, pepper and star anise. A typical flavor of spiced Christmas cookies enclosed within a melt-in-your-mouth candy.
Sweet and chewy homemade five-spice soft caramels.
Course sweets and desserts
Cuisine egg-free, gluten free, vegetarian
Keyword caramel, homemade, honey
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 30 minutesminutes
Servings 20candies
Calories 210kcal
Ingredients
3tsp5 spice powderI used Cannamela brand
240mlcream
320gwhite sugar
60mlwater
1tsphoney
40gslightly salted butter
Instructions
Instructions: Five-spice soft caramels
For this recipe I used 5 spices blend by Cannamela. This blend of Asian origin is perfect to prepare recipes with meat, fish, spicy vegetables but also to prepare cakes and desserts. The mixture consists of fennel, cinnamon, cloves, pepper and star anise.
To prepare this recipe you need to have a candy thermometer.
Mix cream and 5 spices and set aside. Coat a square pan (20 x 20 cm) with baking paper and set aside.
Put sugar in a pan, add water and honey. Mix briefly and turn on the heat. From this moment do not stir the sugar. Bring the whole temperature to 160 °C, the sugar should become golden.
Turn off the heat and add spiced cream. Stir quickly but be careful because the mixture will have a strong reaction and it is very easy to get burned. Put the pot back on the heat and cook over medium flame, stirring often, until the whole temperature is back to 120 °C.
Turn off the heat, add butter and mix well. Pour the mixture into the pan and let it cool completely. Use kitchen towel to remove excess butter and leave it at room temperature or put in the refrigerator for 3 hours until firm.
Gently remove the baking paper and cut the candy to your liking.
Wrap every caramel in baking paper and keep in the closed container.
Notes
About 3 hours waiting time.The nutritional values are generated automatically for indicative purposes only and are therefore not completely accurate.