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15 ways to incorporate more condensed milk into your life

You can eat it straight from the tin; you can also use it in these sweet and savoury recipes.
Churros with dulce de leche

Churros with dulce de leche

Ben Dearnley

There’s no denying the allure of sweetened condensed milk, that tin of goodness that tastes more “sweet” than it does “milk”; that creamy, syrupy nectar with its caramel overtones. It’s a critical ingredient to Latin America’s dulce de leche – see Porteño’s milk flan with dulce de leche or our churros recipe with dulce de leche – and various tres leches (three milks) cakes. It works wonders in savoury recipes too, like David Thompson’s Thai grilled pork skewers.

Spiced Fuji apple crumble with dulce de leche ice-cream
Photo: William Meppem

Spiced Fuji apple crumble with dulce de leche ice-cream

Photo: Alicia Taylor

Vietnamese coffee ice-creams with salted cashew crumb

Photo: Mark Roper

Lauren Eldridge’s no-churn passionfruit ice-cream with lime sherbet and blackberries

Photo: William Meppem

Flan de queso

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Coconut lamingtons with cherry jam

Photo: Babiche Martens

Monique Fiso’s hokey pokey whoopie pies

Buttermilk fried chicken with waffles
Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen

Sunda’s buttermilk fried chicken with waffles

Photo: Ben Dearnley

David Thompson’s grilled pork skewers

Milk flan with dulce de leche and whipped cream
Photo: William Meppem

Porteño’s milk flan with dulce de leche and whipped cream

Photo: John Paul Urizar

Dark-chocolate liquorice rocky road

Photo: William Meppem

Rice pudding with raisins, almonds and coconut syrup

Tres leches cake
Photo: William Meppem

Tres leches cake with bitter chocolate

Photo: William Meppem

Walnut, maple and milk chocolate fudge

Tres leches cake with roasted peaches
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Tres leches cake with roasted peaches

Churros with dulce de leche
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Churros with dulce de leche

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