Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Dulce de Leche Duos



This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was selected by Jodie of Beansy Loves Cake. She selected the Dulce de Leche Duos. These are a seemingly simple sandwich cookie, with the cookie dough containing Dulce de Leche and then they are sandwiched together with additional Dulce de Leche. Visit Jodie’s blog for the complete recipe and you can also check out how other Tuesdays with Dorie bloggers faired with this recipe.

This recipe calls for Dulce de Leche, which can be hard to find in the store. I looked in all the grocery stores and didn’t have any luck. I knew I could find it at the fancy kitchen gourmet store, but it’s very expensive there. I ended up doing what many other Tuesdays with Dorie bloggers did: I made my own. A couple of people had talked about making Dulce de Leche and it didn’t seem too hard.

Dulce de Leche is just a thick caramel sauce, and you can make it with sweetened condensed milk. I used David Lebovitz’s recipe, which worked out very well. You basically pour a can of sweetened condensed milk in a pie plate, put it in a water bath and bake for an hour and a half. I would have liked to bake mine for about 15 additional minutes, but I was on my way out the door. My caramel wasn’t as caramelized as it could be, but it looked good.

The cookies are very good on their own; you can’t taste the Dulce de Leche all that much, but they’re still very tasty. I didn’t sandwich too many of mine, partially because I needed more Dulce de Leche, partially because my Dulce de Leche wasn’t very thick. Even directly from the refrigerator it wasn’t thick, and this made sandwiching the cookies together a sticky (but yummy) mess! They are really good as sandwich cookies; you can really taste the caramel. I’ll see how they set up, and maybe they won’t be so messy, of course they have to last that long!



Recipe from Baking from My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan, page 161.

11 comments:

chocolatechic said...

I wonder if you didn't cook you DDL long enough.

Your cookies look lovely.

Mine...butt ugly!

Beth said...

omg, mine were so messy, too! I got batter and DDL everywhere. The kitchen smelled amazing, but looked horrid.

CB said...

Forget the fancy shmancy gourmet store! I did the same thing. I made my own. I did the crockpot method but I wanna try the oven method now. David Lebovitz can do no wrong! Glad you enjoyed the cookies.
-CB
http://iheartfood4thought.com

Jacque said...

Mmm, so decadent! Those look mouth-wateringly good.

Teanna said...

Mmmm those cookies dripping with dulce de leche are making my mouth water!

Susan said...

Oh my! The cookies with the dulce de leche dripping from them look fabulous! I will have to make these soon. :)

Leslie said...

These look fantastic! I love the drips that you got! I made my own (from milk and sugar) and it was little thin, too.

Amanda said...

The dripping caramel looks amazing! I had to do a rewind this week, didn't have the ingredients. Still want to make them though!

Tia said...

mmm drippy is good!

Marthe said...

I loved how easy these cookies were to make! Making the dulce de leche took more time than making the cookies!

TeaLady said...

OH look at that wonderful dulce slowly oozing down the cookies. YUM!!!!