Trinidad Milk Barfi Recipe
Milk barfi is an Indian sweet treat made with milk powder, sugar and spices and topped with rainbow sprinkles. It’ll likely remind you of a fun milky fudge.
Prep Time30 minutes mins
Cook Time20 minutes mins
Set time1 hour hr
Total Time1 hour hr 50 minutes mins
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Caribbean, Indian
Keyword: barfi
Author: Ros
- 650 mL full cream milk powder
- 150 g cream
- 500 g sugar
- water to dissolve
- 1 tbsp ginger (freshly grated)
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
- rainbow sprinkles
Sugar Syrup
Place a pot on low heat.
Add sugar, ginger, cardamom powder and enough water to dissolve the sugar.
Stir often and allow to simmer.
After 15 minutes or so, the syrup will form sugar threads.
Remove from heat.
Barfi
Add syrup slowly to milk powder and cream mixture.
Stir the mixture until clumpy.
Butter a flat tray.
Place the clumpy mixture onto the tray.
Compress and shape the mixture to remove any air pockets.
Add sprinkles and press into the barfi.
Score will hot to create sharp lines to make it easier to cut.
Leave to cool, harden and set.
Once cooled, cut into squares