How to make millionaires shortbread.
This millionaires shortbread recipe is truly indulgent yet simple to make.
When you bring a out a plate of these millionaires shortbread to family and friends you will impress them with your baking skills.
The shortbread is crispy and crumbles into your mouth, the caramel is perfect and not too sweet and the chocolate sets so wonderful - it is pure heaven to bite into.
Chef uses evaporated milk not condensed milk in this millionaires shortbread recipe. Using condensed milk will not produce the same caramel and it would taste far too sweet.
When cooking the caramel the trick is to constantly stir at all times, the process should take not much longer than 15 minutes to cook.
Leaving the shortbread to set in the fridge helps to set the chocolate and keeps the caramel chewy and shortbread crisp.
If you always wanted to know how to make your very own millionaires shortbread then this is the recipe for you.
Simply follow the step-by-step pictures and get cooking.
For the shortbread
6oz Plain flour
2oz Caster sugar
4oz Butter/margarine
For the caramel
225ml Evaporated milk
4oz Butter/margarine
8oz Caster sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
Chocolate topping
3oz Milk chocolate
1 tsp Butter/margarine
Stir the plain flour into the butter and sugar until it starts to clump together.
Press all of the shortbread dough into the bottom of the cake tin until even.
Use a spoon to straighten the edges of the shortbread.
Place into a hot oven at gas mark 4 for 20-30 minutes or until firm.
Leave the shortbread to cool in the tin.
The caramel mixture will froth up but use a wooden spoon to keep stirring and the froth should sink back down into the pan a little.
Keep stirring for a whole 15 minutes.
For approximately 10 minutes the mixture in the pan will not resemble caramel, it is only in the last 5 minutes that the mixture will start to look like caramel.
It should take not much longer than 15 minutes to make the caramel.
Remember to stir constantly to prevent burning, do not walk away from the pan whilst making the caramel.
Leave to set.
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