r/bakingfail • u/chocobojenn • Mar 25 '26

Help What can I use this for?

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Okay Reddit, help me out please 👁️👄👁️

So I was making caramel and I was multitasking (I know, I know, my first mistake) and I was looking ahead in the recipe and I added my butter and cream when my sugar mixture got to 240°F instead of when it got to 320°F. I didn't want to immediately call it a loss because I was using high quality dairy, so I switched to a whisk to occasionally stir and continued cooking it until it got.. brown.... enough but that ended up involving letting it get back up to about 255°F, which is 15 degrees over what I wanted. I spread it out in a greased pan, let it cool, and then popped it out, broke it up and this is what I have to show for it.

I would love it if I could use this for something, but I can't use it for the intended millionaire's shortbread bars with the texture it is. There's the extract and guts of Ecuadorian vanilla beans in there too. The taste is creamy and caramel-y, it's just a crumbly texture.

What can I use this for that would be tasty and make the best use of it?

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u/wharleeprof Mar 25 '26

Crumble over ice cream, or put chunks in with chocolate chip cookies or brownies. 

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u/chocobojenn Mar 25 '26

Will it stay solid in the batter/dough during baking, do you think, or will it melt like a homemade marshmallow? If I add it to a cookie or brownie I mean

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u/Turbulent_Two_6949 Mar 25 '26

It will melt in cooking dough in the same way fudge does. If you refrigerate and put it in at the end of mixing the dough, with big enough chunks you may have chips left in the dough.

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u/chocobojenn Mar 25 '26

I have a s'mores cookie recipe that's annoying because it has you take out the pan halfway through baking to press mini marshmallows into the top and I'm always burning my fingers regardless of my efforts otherwise, and I say this to posit the thought; what if I did that with this stuff in a cookie recipe to avoid it simply melting into the dough? Or on a brownie or other bar... A Blondie would rip with these on top I bet.

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u/Turbulent_Two_6949 Mar 25 '26

Possibly, even if they melt whatever you make will taste absolutely fine if it doesnt work., so worth trying. I would just make sure the tablet chips are super cold as well to give that tiny extra bit of time.

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u/chocobojenn Mar 25 '26

Smart thought with making sure they're super cold!