Salted Caramel Coffee- See’s Candies reminiscent, salvaging a scorched sweet cream base

I was trying out a few different base recipes to zero in on a favorite. Ample hills was the next in line. While heating the milk with sugar and powdered milk added, I looked away for too long and it scorched on the bottom. It wasn't ruined, but there was a very distinct toasted milk flavor.

I decided to try a salted caramel flavor to salvage the ingredients. I scooped one third cup of granulated sugar into a clean sauce pan and melted/burned it as for flan. Then I poured the molten caramel into my measuring cup of cream to dissolve (I never like to heat all of the liquid in a recipe for tempering eggs if it will just be cooled afterward- half usually suffices- so the cream was sitting ready to add at the end.)

I whisked the boiled milk into the eggs, stirred and added the caramel cream, and add about 1 teaspoon of salt until it tasted right. Then I added a teaspoon of instant coffee granules because the mix had a coffee-like flavor.

It churned beautifully, and the caramel/coffee/salt flavor is perfect. It reminds me of those See's Candies lollipops, which seem to have coffee in the caramel flavor and caramel in the coffee. I grew up eating See's chocolates on special occasions, and still believe that no one else does those dark complex caramelized flavors quite as well. This ice cream wad intended to make a mistake pleasant and edible- instead it's smashed all of my other ice creams out of the park. Now to see if it's possible to recreate without scorching the milk.