Here are the two things I've found to be the most important and I cook the mix in a small pan at pretty much 1:1 ratio with coconut oil.

1. Keep temperature between 200-275F. I use a candy thermometer but with this method you literally have to stay with the mixture the whole time. I need to retry some in my crockpot and check temps along the way because I did NOT get the same results in my crockpot and I'm strongly guessing that the temps are too low.

2. The longer you cook it the better it gets.....again considering that you have to watch the temp and stay glued to the kitchen. If you walk away and it burns (anything over 300F I've found to start really burning the mix to useless).....and it burns up QUICK once it hits that temp and above. I've found out the hard way not to leave it unattended. That's where I think if you have a crockpot that will get your temps over 200F and under 275F you're in great shape. Candy/oil thermometers are cheap and you can get them at your local grocery store.

This method works beautifully for me. So far I've cooked them up to 2 1/2 hrs at these temps with EXCELLENT results. At one hour the results were good to very good. I have found the extra time to be worth the effort without question.