Chocolate Caramels

Serves: 1

Complexity: very easy

Ingredients:

- 1 C Butter

- 1 C light corn syrup

- 1 can sweetened condensed milk

- 1 C brown sugar

- 1 C granulated sugar

- 2 oz unsweetened baking chocolate

- 1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

1. Butter a 9" baking dish and set aside.

2. In a very large saucepan, combine butter, syrup, milk, and sugars and cook over a moderate heat.

3. Wash down sides of pan with a pastry brush dipped in water to prevent candy from turning into sugar by removing undissolved sugar granules.

4. Add chocolate and cook, stirring frequently to firm ball stage, 245 deg on a candy termometer.

5. Candy will form a firm but malleably ball when dropped in cold water. For altitudes higher than sea level, reduce cooking temp by 1deg for every 500 feet above sea level.

6. Turn off heat, stir in vanilla and pour into dish without scraping the pan.

7. When cooled, cut into squares.