Caramel Gold

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter (sorry no substitute)
• 2 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 1 dash salt
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 1 (15 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 melt butter in a heavy 3 quart sauce pan.
• 2 add sugar and salt.
• 3 stir thoroughly.
• 4 now stir in corn syrup.
• 5 mix well.
• 6 add sweetened condensed milk, stirring constantly.
• 7 cook and stir over medium heat and heat to firm ball stage (245 degrees), about 12 to 15 minutes.
• 8 remove from heat and add the vanilla.
• 9 pour into a 9x9x2 buttered pan; cool, cut into squares (or make turtles by arranging two pecan halves on a buttered sheet of waxed paper and spooning a little caramel on top of the pecans, let cool, then spooning a little melted milk chocolate on top).
• 10 enjoy when cooled.