Salted Caramel and Shortbread Biscuits
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These biscuits manage to cover all the bases and are actually one of the best things I have made in a while. Cobbled together from pieces of two different recipes these turned out way better than I could have ever expected.
Method
Shortbread Biscuits
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Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
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Make sure the butter is at room temperature and then cut into small blocks.
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Add the flour, butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and start to mix the ingredients. After a bit they will start to form a crumbly mixture but if you keep mixing it will all come together to form a soft dough.
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Roll out the dough to your desired thickness and then use a cutter to discs of your proffered size.
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Place the discs onto baking mats spaced out and place in the over and bake for approx. 10 minutes or till a golden brown.
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Once ready take out and leave on cooling rack whilst you start to make the caramel.
Caramel
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Melt the butter, sugar, condensed milk, golden syrup and salt in a pan. Keep stirring and don't let it stick/burn.
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Once the sugar has dissolved turn up the heat and boil for 5-7 minutes whilst constantly stirring.
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It's ready once it has turned a deep golden colour and has thickened to a fudge consistency.
Finishing
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Take the base shortbread biscuits and spoon on about a full teaspoon into the middle of each. Hopefully the caramel has cooled enough that it will not overflow the edges. If it does wipe round the side to stop it.
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Once you have put caramel on all the bottom pieces, go back to the first one you did and add a tiny drop to the top of the caramel. Then place the top piece of shortbread on and sandwich them together pushing the caramel out to the sides. Repeat for all.
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Now melt your chocolate and place in a piping bag or something similar. Line up your biscuits so you can pipe the chocolate on the top of each easily one after the other.
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Once you have pipped the chocolate on the top and the biscuits are ready, place in the fridge for a while (about 45-60 minutes) to cool and set.