How to Make Pastillas

Pastillas or pastillas de leche are a famous and much loved sugar-coated sweet in the Philippines. You can make this candy without cooking, or cook it quickly for delicious candies. Check out the instructions below for how to make pastillas.

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Ingredient

2 cups milk powder
1 can (about 400g) sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon margarine

Make pastillas without cooking

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Pour the powdered milk and sweetened condensed milk into the bowl. Pour only 2 cups of powdered milk and 1 can (about 400g) of sweetened condensed milk into the bowl. With the ingredients in this recipe, you will make 80 candies.

Stir together powdered milk and sweetened condensed milk. The mixture will be a little thick and difficult to stir, so you need to be patient and use a spoon with thick, hard material.

Add margarine to the mixture. Add 1 tablespoon of margarine to the mixture; or, you can use butter. This will help add fat to the candy. Mix butter with other ingredients.

Roll the candy into a circle or cylinder. Shape pastillas in the shape you like; You can roll the candy into a round or cylindrical shape like jam candies. Simply roll the candy into your favorite shape with your hands; You can wear gloves if you want. Place the finished candies on a plate.

Pour sugar and plate. Pour half a cup of sugar into another plate.

Roll the pastillas over the sugar. Make sure the candy is evenly coated with the sugar.

Wrap candy with cellophane. You can pre-cut the paper to get your favorite shape. Then put the pastillas in the paper and wrap.

Present. Arrange the candies on the style plate and enjoy. Use candy as dessert or as a snack whenever you like.

Cooking pastillas

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Stir sweetened condensed milk, powdered milk, and sugar in a small saucepan. Make sure to stir the ingredients as you cook until the mixture thickens.

Boil the mixture.

Add butter. Continue stirring the mixture.

Lift the pot of mixture off the stove. After removing the pot from the heat, pour the mixture into the bowl. Let the mixture cool for at least 5-10 minutes, until you can touch it but the mixture is still slightly warm.

Wash candy. Use your hands or a knife to turn the mixture into a candy shape. You can shape the candy into a circle, cylinder, cube or any shape you want. You can create 80 candies.

Gently roll the candy over the sugar. Do this by hand to make sure each candy is coated with a thin, even layer of sugar.

Wrap candy with cellophane. Place each candy in the center of the square paper and roll the paper into a cylinder or whatever shape you like and then tuck the ends of the paper close to the candy.

Enjoy. You can eat this delicious candy at any time of the day.

Advice

For the candy cooking method, you can boil 1 can of unsweetened condensed milk before adding the powdered milk and sweetened condensed milk. This will make the pastillas fatter and white.

Things you need

Bowl
Cellophane

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Steps

Make pastillas without cooking

Cooking pastillas

Advice

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