MacMillan Coffee Morning: Millionaires Shortbread

Coffee Morning Bake Number Two: Millionaires Shortbread

Im really pleased with how they turned out! I was going to do feathered lines with the white chocolate but my mum got involved...mum decided to do the white chocolate lines and when we cut the end off the piping bag, chocolate spurted out everywhere and instinctively mum put the piping bag over the millionaires shortbread and started doing any random pattern, circles, zigzags...anything. My jaw dropped and mum couldn't stop laughing. So the nice neat lines never happened but armed with a cocktail stick we made it very abstract. In the end I thought it looked really good!  Once again I made this recipe the day before so it had time to set. This recipe also came from 'Chocolate: Quick & Easy'. Makes approx 16 but mine went a lot further as I cut them up smaller.

Ingredients

• 100g Soft Margarine
• 50g Light Muscovado Sugar
• 125g Plain Flour
• 40g Rolled Oats

Caramel Filling...

• 25g Butter
• 25g Muscovado Sugar
• 200g Can Condensed Milk

Topping

• 100g Dark Chocolate
• 25g White Chocolate

1.  Beat together the margarine and muscovado sugar in a bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in the flour and the rolled oats. Use your fingertips to bring the mixture together, if necessary.
2. Press the mixture into the base of a shallow 20cm/8inch square cake tin.
3. Bake in the oven at 180c/350f/gas mark 4 for 25 mins or until just golden and firm. Cool in the tin.
4. Place the ingredients for the caramel filling in a pan and heat gently, stirring until the sugar has dissolved and the ingredients combine. Bring slowly to the boil over a very low heat, then boil very gently for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly until thickened.
5. Pour the caramel filling over the biscuit base in the tin and leave to set.
6. Melt the dark chocolate and spread it over the caramel. If using the white chocolate, melt it and pipe lines over the dark chocolate. Using a cocktail stick feather the white chocolate. Leave to set and then cut into squares.