Dulce de leche (doce de leite ) is a confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk (most commonly cow milk) to create a substance that derives its flavor from the Maillard reaction, also changing color. Dulce de leche is Spanish for "Candy [made] of milk". Dulce de Leche is known as "manjar de leche" or just "manjar". Technically, in Puerto Rican households, the term dulce de leche means candy of milk.