Vanilla Bean Spoon Sweet

Handmade.

Sickly Sweet.

Oh So Good.

Father's Day is looming. Again.

Never thrilled about commercial holidays.

But I do like to shower dad with sweets.

He is a notorious midnight snacker.

In his clumsy refridgerator hunt and gather, he'll combine grapes with feta cheese, sesame halva in a buttered bread roll, sardines with olives and pickles….

Often it's a simple devouring of half a platter of baklava or some other sickly Greek sweet.

I'll make his feat easier with this homemade favourite, straight out of the jar!

Ingredients

125ml whole cream milk

125ml 35% full cream

500g sugar

50g glucose

2 vanilla beans, scraped for seeds

Method

Attach a sugar thermometer to the saucepan and add all ingredients.

Stir over low heat until mix reaches 116C.

Immediately remove from heat, and pour thickened mixture into a cool ceramic bowl or tray.

Do not stir or it will crystalise.

Allow to cool to 35C.

Using a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, add mix and blend until smooth, stable and to the point where it is no longer elastic.

Store in glass jars.
Serve on a long spoon submerged in a glass of water, Submarine style.

NB. Don't expect the end product to look bleached white as the store bought version, it is homemade afterall.