A great flavor of ice cream to be sure, but I always feel unsure telling someone it is one of my favorites, because I have no idea how it is pronounced. Please eliminate my ignorance so that I may spread the good news about this heavenly treat.
I don’t know, but allow me to make a guess.
DOOL-chay duh LEH-chay.
Well? 
DOOL-say day LEH-CHAY.
Vision of Love’s is probably more… Italian, I suppose.
I answered my first GQ question!
Wrong. Why would you want to guess if you don’t know?
Approximately, DOOL-say day LAY-chay.
I thought I had a good chance at getting it right. I should also mention that for a minute, I thought I was in Cafe Society.
DOOL-say day LEH-che
If you want it in Castillian style, it would be DOOL-theh dheh LEH-cheh (“th” as in “thing,” “dh” as the “th” in “then”).
In Italian, “ch” is pronounced as “k.” “Chiaro” would be pronounced as “kyah-roh” or “kee-ah-roh” or something in between. Having “c” before “e” or “i” renders “c” as “ch” in English, therefore an “h” is added as a buffer between “c” and the vowel to preserve the “k” sound. So, according to Italian pronunciation, “dulce de leche” would be “DOOL-cheh deh LEH-keh.”
WRS
Except that in Italian it would be Dólce di Latte.
It’s not Italian, it is Spanish, and actually it’s a popular confection in Mexico. So, it is:
/'dulse De 'letSe/ OR /'dulTe De 'letSe/
or roughly:
DOOL-seh theh LEH-cheh OR DOOL-theh theh LEH-cheh
the “theh”'s initial th is pronounced as in “the”
I pronounce it like this, but I’m not very good at spoken Spanish.
Oh, you´ve found the pure, destilled joy of Dulce the Leche, the desideratum of goodness and sweetness. A bakery in front of my work makes some wicked corissants filled with it.
By the way, it´s under dispute whether the thing was invented here or in Argentina, the matter has sparked some heated debates.
Cool background informations, thanks. Could you give the translation?
Dulce De Leche Con Mango is even better.
Dulce = sweet, leche = milk. Literally, a sweet made of milk.
Yes, Milk Sweet, and it´s quite easy, although time consuming to do.
First method, traditional style:
3 liters of whole milk
800 grames of sugar
a pinch or two of vanilla, maybe more depending on your preferences
1 tablespoon of bicarbonate
Dump all that on a pot and boil it to medium heath stirring it constantly, after about three hours it should have it´s characteristic brown colour and consistency; take samples off the pot and let them cool to see if it´s OK.
The modern way:
Get a can of condensed milk, take the label off and put it to boil inside a pot full of water (you may want not to close the can hermetically, let´s say that milk sweet is not a good kitchen paint) As I said, put it to heat and when the water boils reduce the flame a bit to kep it boiling steadly, let it cook for an hour and it should be done.
I should point out that I actually never tried this myself; being much easier to simply walk to the supermarket and buing the thing. But I guess it could be handy to those unfortunate people that don´t have access to it.
Is Dulce de Leche a Spanish treat as well?
Being of Mexican heritege, I am only familiar with it being a Mexican treat.
Pronouncing it with the Castillian ‘theh’ sounds as wrong to my ears as does the Italian rendition Vision of Love gave us!
My mother, who was born in Argentina where this is a major favorite, pronounces it DOOL-say deh LAY-chay.
It’s comfort food from my childhood. She always made it the condensed milk way, but I’ve found that the Smucker’s version in the ice cream toppings section is good enough to replace it without the labor.
I have an easy and (for me, so far) fool-proof method. Put the peeled can of sweetened condensed milk in a crock pot, cover with water, set it on low, and go to work or to bed. Eight hours later, you will have a can of something that is obscenely gooey and delicious.
I have also put a can in a crock pot with the soup that’s cooking, making dinner and dessert at the same time.
I’ve never had a can blow up on me. Mmmmm. I love the stuff. I like it to spread it on chunks of pineapple. And I can get sweetened condensed for, like, $0.97 per can.
Well, duh! It’s pronounced “duhl-see day leysh”! People, sheesh!
WRS - now back to your regular program(ming).