Brazilionaires shortbread

 

Brazilionaires Shortbread

We all love Millionaires shortbread. That magnficent combination of crispy biscuit, chewy caramel and melting chocolate. You might think it would be hard to improve but I think this recipe may just do it.

Watching the football late in the evening has meant that many in our house have needed a snack after tea. Something sugary has also been sought. As the older teen really doesn’t like cake, (I know, I know, how did that happen?) but she does like Millionaires shortbread a request was made. Now I love to take a dish and twist it. I wanted to change it a little to reflect the World Cup. Could I add different flavours, colours or ingredients? Should I pick a particular country?

In the end I went for adding an ingredient native to Brazil (Brazilnuts!) to give the bars even more texture and some colour, the colours of the Brazilian flag, because I could!

Ingredients

Shortbread

225g plain flour

75g caster sugar

175g butter – softened

Caramel

379g tin of condensed milk

200g butter

6 tbsp golden syrup

100g brazil nuts chopped

Chocolate coating

300g white chocolate (I used a supermarket value chocolate as I was going to colour it.)

blue, yellow and green food colour pastes

How To….

• Pre heat the oven to 160c
• Line a 6″ by 10″ tin with parchment.
• Place all the ingredients for the shortbread into a large bowl and rub together until a dough begins to form.
• Press the dough into the tin and using a fork prick the dough all over.
• Bake for 35  to 40 minutes until golden.

shortbread base ready to bake

• Leave to cool.
• In a large, heavy bottomed pan, melt together the butter, syrup and condensed milk.
• Slowly bring to the boil stiring constantly. Keep on a rolling simmer,stir and cook until the mixture becomes a darker caramel colour, this takes about 10 minutes.
• Cool for a few minutes and then stir in the chopped Brazil nuts. Tip over the shortbread and leave to cool completely.

chopped Brazil nuts

Topping

• Melt 300g of white chocolate in a bowl over barely simmering water.
• Divide the melted chocolate between three bowls. Colour one yellow, one blue and the remaining one green.
• Drizzle the chocolate randomly over the caramel. Tip to move the chocolate until it covers the caramel completely. Leave to set.

Chocolate waiting to set.

• Cut into squares and eat slowly to give you energy to query the referee whilst watching your favourite team play at 1am!

 

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