dulce de leche

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish dulce de leche (literally “sweet [made] of milk”). Compare dolcelatte.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌdulseɪ də ˈlɛtʃeɪ/, /ˌdʌlseɪ də ˈlɛtʃeɪ/

dulce de leche (uncountable)

1. A South American sweet spread made from sugar and boiled milk.
   • 2023 May 24, Ligaya Mishan, “The Shortcut to Homemade Milk Candy”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Unlike dulce de leche, in which milk is cooked down with sugar until it thickens into gold, the milk stays white here — burfi comes from the Persian word for snow — for a purer flavor.

• “dulce de leche”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• dulce de leche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Literally, “milk sweet”.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdulθe de ˈlet͡ʃe/ [ˌd̪ul̟.θe ð̞e ˈle.t͡ʃe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˌdulse de ˈlet͡ʃe/ [ˌd̪ul.se ð̞e ˈle.t͡ʃe] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: dul‧ce de le‧che

dulce de leche m (plural dulces de leche)

1. (usually uncountable) dulce de leche

   Synonyms: manjar blanco, (South America, especially Chile, Peru, Panama, and El Salvador) manjar, (El Salvador) leche poleada, (Colombia, Venezuela) arequipe, (Spain) natillas, (México) cajeta, (abbreviation) DDL

• “dulce de leche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025