Name: Instant Pot Caramel (Dulce De Leche) Recipe
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 60 min
Ingredients: 14 oz Sweetened Condensed Milk (one can); 1 cup Water

What is one dessert that says fall to you? To me, it is caramel, which I always had to buy in the past. That is because every time I tried making it on stove top, it burned and didn’t come out. After I have tried a few times, I gave up and haven’t tried making it for years. That is until I made it in the Instant Pot, with one ingredient and no work.

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Since I made Instant Pot Caramel for the first time, I have made it again and again, with the same amazing and very delicious result. The best thing about it is that you need one ingredient to make it! All you need to use is Sweetened Condensed Milk. And once you cook it in the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker, you will have dolce de leche, how cool is that?

How To Make Caramel in Instant Pot

All you need to make caramel in the Instant Pot are these four things:

– Instant Pot Pressure Cooker, this is what is going to help you make yummy dulce de leche without any work at all!

– Mixing Bowl, as we are using Instant Pot PIP (pot in pot) cooking method for this recipe, you will need a small stainless steel bowl to use.

– Instant Pot Trivet, a low trivet, to put the bowl with caramel on.

– Sweetened Condensed Milk, the one ingredient needed for this recipe.

What Is Instant Pot PIP (Pot in pot) Cooking?

The idea for Instant Pot PIP method is simple. For some dishes, it is much easier to cook the recipe in a separate pot, and not in the actual inner pot of the Instant Pot.

As we don’t want to add water directly to the Sweetened Condensed Milk, it makes sense to make Instant Pot dulce de leche by using the pot in pot method.

More Easy Dessert Recipes

Here are more simple dessert recipes that you can make. Some of them, like the brownies, can benefit by adding this caramel on top:

– Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars Recipe, these delicious chocolate chip cookie bars are so much easiest to make than the cookies! They are also incredibly moist and delicious.

– Red, White and Blue Chocolate Covered Pretzels, these are fun chocolate covered pretzels, that you will be making for picnics all summer long.

– Easy Chocolate Mug Cake Recipe, chocolate cake that is ready in a few minutes? Yes, please!! Find out how to make this cake in minutes in your microwave.

– Best Instant Pot Fudge Brownie Recipe, love brownies? You don’t need the oven to make these amazing extra chocolatey brownies.

– Easy Rainbow Chocolate Truffles Recipe, best chocolate candy ever, that is really easy to make.

Dulce De Leche Vs Caramel

A lot of people ask what is the difference of dulce de leche vs caramel.

While we like the taste of both, they are slightly different. Dulce de leche is made from Sweetened Condensed Milk, by heating it so that sugar in it cooks. Dulce de leche translation

Caramel is made by cooking sugar and then combining it with water, and sometimes milk or heavy cream.

Both are really delicious, and we find that this recipe for Instapot Dulce de Leche is the easiest carmel to make ever! It is foolproof, and it works every time!

This recipe is for you if you can’t really make involved desserts (like me!), and you want something very simple. It is also a recipe with just one ingredient, Sweetened Condensed Milk. So if you are looking for how to make carmel at home, without heavy cream, without milk, without brown sugar and without butter, than this is the recipe for you.

How To Make Caramel in your Instant Pot

Here is the basic caramel recipe to make in your Instapot. For timing and other tips scroll down to the recipe card at the end of this post.

For a lighter caramel, decrease the time in the recipe. And for slightly darker caramel, just increase the time by a bit.

Open Sweetened Condensed Milk with a Can Opener.

Pour Sweetened Condensed Milk into a Mixing Bowl. Use a spoon to crape all the condensed milk from the sides of the jar.

Pour water in the Instant Pot and put Instant Pot Trivet on the bottom.

Put the bowl with sweetened condensed milk on top of the trivet, and loosely cover with Aluminum Foil. Cook until the caramel is done. Once pin drops, carefully remove the bowl with caramel from the Instant Pot, remove the foil and let it cook for a few minutes. Use a spoon to carefully mix caramel, as it may have separated.

Serving Suggestions

There are so many things you can serve with this amazing Instant Pot Caramel (Dolce de Leche). You can definitely eat it as is, with a spoon. We have done it, and happy to report that it tastes great.

Use it to make regular or Instant Pot Caramel Cheesecake.

Put it on top of Heart Shaped Brownies. There is no better way to say “I love you”, than with chocolate and caramel.

Put it on top of the Chocolate Mug Cake.

Or on top of Banana Bread.

Use it on top of ice cream.

Use it to dip berries.

Use as caramel dipping sauce for apples.

Drizzle on top of a pound cake.

Seriously, the possibilities are endless!

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Instant Pot Caramel (Dulce De Leche) Recipe

This super easy Instant Pot caramel sauce made from condensed milk takes no work to make! Just put it in the Instapot, and all the work is done for you! Best diy caramel sauce ever.

Prep Time2 mins

Cook Time1 hr

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: how to make caramel, instant pot dolce de leche

Servings:

Calories: 127kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

14 oz Sweetened Condensed Milk one can
1 cup Water

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Instructions

Use a Can Opener and open the can of Sweetened Condensed Milk.
Put Sweetened Condensed Milk into a Bowl that would fit into the Instant Pot. Make sure to scrape all the condensed milk into the bowl, you want as much caramel sauce as you can get!
Pour water in the Instant Pot and put the Instant Pot Trivet on the bottom. Put the bowl with the condensed milk on top of the trivet, and cover loosely with Aluminum Foil.
Place the lid on the Instant Pot. Use the manual setting, and cook for 60 minutes.
Use Natural Release, and wait for the valve to drop. Carefully remove the bowl from the Instant Pot. Carefully remove the foil, and let the your Instant Pot caramel cool for a few minutes.
Use a spoon and mix it, as it may have separated. You now have the most amazing dulce de leche! Drizzle it on Instant Pot Brownies or make a latte with it!