I found a tin of this in the cupboards when I was reorganising them the other day.
The kitchen briefly looked like a bomb had fallen, alright, alright I admit ..... not so briefly. I actually gave up halfway through and came and sat at the computer armed with coffee and biscuits so I couldn't see the almighty mess I had made where once there had been calm and organisation.
After a break I garnered my energy and finished the job in hand, but the tin of caramel stayed out of the cupboard. Usually I have this in store to make my Cheats Banoffee Pie. Simply a ready made pastry case, a layer of this easy caramel poured in, a couple of sliced up bananas scattered around and then a few ginormous dollops of whipped cream on top, maybe with a bit of grated dark chocolate too, hardly a recipe but most certainly a dessert that makes everyone go oooh :-)
But now I don't eat cream (mild lactose intolerance) and Lovely Hubby is being so very good and not eating many sweet desserts so what could I do with the tin of caramel.
And then I remembered a recipe I had read in this book.
Yep ... there it was :-)
So one tin of overly sweet goo-iness was turned into eight jars of very tasty jam.
Yes, it is very sweet but it's packed with apples, lots of apples and you only need a smidge of it on your toast to set your taste buds into ecstatic overdrive, and also a way of making one tin of something go a very long way with free apples from the trees outside.
Any Banoffee Pie desserts will now be purchased as a very special 'treat' when out and and about, that way at least there is a modicum of portion control involved!!
It is yummy ..... and
Well we had to open one to sample the goods didn't we ;-)
And as you no doubt spotted on the jar labels, I changed the name of it slightly .... well can you imagine writing Caramelised Apple Jam eight times ......
Sue xx
