Whatever is cooked in it becomes glazed almost automatically, as the soy sauce cooks down and the sugar caramelizes.

Bake until plums are tender and pastry is well browned, with spots where the sugar has caramelized, about 45 minutes.

It is cooked until the sugar in the plantains caramelizes, with brown edges.

Add one tablespoon of water and cook over medium heat until the sugar caramelizes.

For starters, you need a pot that can stand up to very high heat, since sugar caramelizes at temperatures above 300 degrees.

The sugar caramelizes in the cooking fat, producing the golden color customers expect.

"The sugars in the citrus juice caramelize to form a really nice crust on the outside of the chicken," he said, turning the bird.

Left to their own devices, their natural sugars will caramelize through slow cooking.

Sprinkle with granulated sugar and cook until the sugar caramelizes.

Adjust heat so that the sugar caramelizes but pancake doesn't burn.