So, I just found out that you can make your own sweetened condensed milk. Why didn’t I think to look it up before? It is super easy and much less expensive than the alternative.

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Ingredients: Sugar, Powdered Milk, Water, Butter
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What you do: Put 1/2 C water + 1 T butter into a microwave safe dish and bring to a boil in your microwave. Then combine that with 1 C sugar and 1 C powdered milk in a blender and blend until well combined.

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Besides the savings, another great reason to make your own is that you can make it sugarless by using Splenda or some other sugar substitute for your sweetening! This is best used right away, but you can refrigerate and use later with some remixing.
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Have you ever made your own sweetened condensed milk? What did you think?