Instant Pot Caramel Dipping Sauce (Dulce De Leche)–if you’re a fan of all things sweet and caramelly you’re going to love this dulce de leche that is a perfect dipping sauce for apples or to pour over ice cream. The best part is that all you need is your electric pressure cooker and a can of sweetened condensed milk.ย
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Instant Pot Caramel Dipping Sauce (Dulce De Leche)
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You know what’s amazing? The fact that you can turn a can of sweetened condensed milk into a caramel dipping sauce with your Instant Pot (or slow cooker for that matter). It’s just magical. Basically all you do is pour the sweetened condensed milk into little jars and place those jars on the trivet in the bottom of your electric pressure cooker. Add some water to the bottom of the pot and cook for 50 minutes and you’ll have the cutest little jars of goodness. My favorite way to eat this caramel sauce is to dip apples into it. It’s ultra sweet so granny smith apples balance it out a bit. These are a fun gift to give to a friend. Wrap up an apple in cellophane and throw in a little jar of caramel sauce. Who can resist that?
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Instant Pot Caramel Dipping Sauce
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
- Yield: 3 (3 oz) jars 1x
Ingredients
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 3 (3 oz) canning jars
Instructions
- Open the can of sweetened condensed milk and pour the contents evenly into the 3 canning jars. Put the lids on the canning jars and close.
- Place the jars on the top of the trivet that has been placed in the bottom of your Instant Pot. Fill the Instant Pot with enough water to come up to about a 1/2 inch below the tops of the jars.
- Cover the Instant Pot and place valve on “sealing.” Press the manual button and set timer to 50 minutes. When the timer beeps let the pressure release naturally. Once you can open the pot do so and carefully remove the jars with tongs and place on a towel or cooling rack. Let them sit for 15 minutes. Remove the lids and give a quick stir. Place lids back on and store in the refrigerator until they are ready for use.
Notes
I used my 6 quart Instant Pot for this recipe.
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I just bought the IP EVO Duo Plus 6qt size. It seems to cook a little faster than the EVO Duo. I followed the 50 minutes pressure cook and full natural release. Total time was 1 hour 40 minutes. It came out really thick and a little dark, but not burnt. I am making another batch right now but only cooking it 40 minutes.
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Cool! Thanks for sharing your experience.
Curious if you know if the plastic canning jar lids will work ok in the instant pot?
No, I believe plastic lids are only for storage & CAN NOT be used for pressure / canning!!
I would not put anything plastic. The pressure cooker heats so hot it would melt them!
Salut,
Est-ce que je peux utiliser la canette en mรฉtal directement au lieu d’utiliser les bocaux en verre?
Merci.
I haven’t tried that myself. But this blogger has: https://cookiesandcups.com/instant-pot-dulce-de-leche/
Can foil be used instead of screw tops?
Yep!
If you use bigger jars do you need increase cooking time?
no
What size jars did you use?
They were 4 ounce jars.
I have no manual button..do I use presure cook?
yes!
Quick question: When you say put the lids on when putting in the Instant Pot, do you mean put just the thin lids on them or do you mean put the lid and screw them on with the rings? Thanks
put the thin lids on and then screw them on with the rings ๐
How long do you natural release?
do a full natural release. So as long as it takes…
How long can store this for?
I put mine in the fridge and it lasted for a while…up to a month.
Hi- The directions say to put the โcansโ on top of the trivetโฆ Iโm assuming you mean the small jars
Yes, sorry. I will correct that!
If I cook it longer, will I get darker dulce de leche?
yep!
Which is it? The above says 20 minutes the recipe print out says 50?! HUGE difference!
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That was a typo. Thanks for pointing it out. The answer is 50 minutes.
If you put more jars in do you need to increase cooking time?
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no just keep the time the same.
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That caramel sauce looks like shiny and creamy…I just want to dip my finger in and give it a try. ๐
Thanks Marly, I did that several times ๐
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