I am so sorry this has been so frustrating, Tricia! But welcome back and thank you so much for your feedback! I have been seeing "caramel flavored" chips in the baking aisle next to the chocolate chips, so I am wondering if those would be a good option. Kroger has their own store brand, and I have seen Hershey's as well. The only one I could find online to show you are Ghirardelli, which I'm sure are delicious, I just haven't seen them in stores.

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They aren't really caramel, so they should stay a little softer, but I would think the flavor would come through! If you decide to go that route, I would definitely say to chop the chips up a bit to make smaller pieces. If you can't find the caramel chips, I'm even wondering if butterscotch chips could work!

Weeeell, I am back again trying to make another batch of this ice cream. I loved everything about it except trying to figure out how to make the caramel work. I purchased the tiny caramel balls, the squares, caramel topping from Braums, and caramel syrup. I tried freezing the liquid caramels ahead of time and cracking them up and then cutting the squares, but no matter what I did everything turned out either rockhard or still so Liquidy that it just mixed with the vanilla ice cream. I would sure love to know what other people are using to make the caramel chewy as stated in the moo llenium crunch ingredients.

Thank you so much for your response. I put a cube in the freezer to test before making another ice cream batch and the cube was rock hard when I tried to bite it. I hadn't cut it up small though, so I will give that one more shot tomorrow (trying to make it as a gift so I don't want to give something dangerous and those tiny round caramels were so hard they would break a tooth). Hope cutting the cubes changes it, thanks.

Hi Tricia! My caramel bits did get a little chewy but I think the trick is chopping it up small enough to where it does not give that effect. If worse comes to worse, you could also try buying the caramel sundae topping and drizzling it in with the ice cream instead of mixing in the bits. Not as authentic but you would still get the flavor!