Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sea salt caramel shortbread squares. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Sea Salt Caramel Shortbread Squares is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Sea Salt Caramel Shortbread Squares is something which I have loved my entire life.
The salted caramel is the middle layer and the layer that brings the nutty and salted flavors to the table. It's just sticky and chewy enough, but not too messy. The chocolate is a thin drizzle but adds a lot of extra flavor to this recipe.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sea salt caramel shortbread squares using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sea Salt Caramel Shortbread Squares:
- Prepare 2/3 cup butter
- Take 1/4 cup white sugar
- Prepare 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- Take 1/2 cup butter
- Get 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- Take 2 Tbsp light corn syrup
- Make ready 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
- Make ready 1 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips
- Take Sea salt
Buttery shortbread crust is topped with a creamy salted caramel and topped with a layer of dark chocolate. Decadent, rich and worthy of the name. The crust is has the exact right amount of crunch, the caramel is creamy and soft, without oozing everywhere, and well, milk chocolate topped with flaked sea salt is a winning combo. Spread over cooled caramel; sprinkle with sea salt.
Steps to make Sea Salt Caramel Shortbread Squares:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl, mix together 2/3 cup butter, white sugar and flour until evenly crumbly. Press into a 9 inch square baking pan lined with parchment paper. Bake for 20 minutes.
- In a 2 quart saucepan, combine 1/2 cup butter, brown sugar, corn syrup and sweetened condensed milk. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Continue to boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and beat vigorously with a wooden spoon for 3 minutes. Pour over warm or cool baked crust. Cool until it begins to firm.
- Place chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl. Heat for 1 minute on high power, then stir. Continue to heat and stir at 20 second intervals until chocolate is melted and smooth. Pour chocolate over the caramel layer and spread evenly to cover completely. Sprinkle with sea salt and chill. Lift squares out of pan using parchment paper and place on cutting board. Cut into squares. Makes 36 squares.
Pour caramel onto cooled shortbread, sprinkle immediately with coarse sea salt. I have had success with placing in the fridge to cool to speed up the process. Cut into squares and serve or store chilled in airtight container. The shortbread (a faux shortbread, more on that below) is slightly sweetened but serves as the crispy vehicle to transport chewy caramel and a blanket of chocolate ganache. To make things even more decadent, it's all topped off with a sprinkle of sea salt.
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