Recipe:Salted Caramel Millionaire's Shortbread

On the weekend I made some Millionaire's Shortbread for my housemates because we all have freshers flu and needed cheering up. I only had one piece because they were eaten so quickly!

This recipe is fairly simple but takes a while to set, so if you only have an hour don't try and make it!

Ingredients:

• Shortbread:
  175g unsalted butter
• 75g caster sugar
• 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
• 225g plain flour
  
  
  Caramel:
  200g unsalted butter

• 1 x 397g can condensed milk
• 4 tbsp golden syrup
• 1 tsp sea salt

• Topping:
  350g  milk chocolate
  
  
  Method:
  
  
  1.Preheat the oven to 180C and grease and line a 20cm square cake tin.
  2.Rub the butter, sugar, vanilla seeds and flour together in a bowl to make rough dough. Press the dough into the cake tin and prick all over with a fork.Bake the dough in the oven for five minutes, then reduce the oven to 150C and bake for a further 35 minutes.
  3.Once cooked, allow to cool in the tin. Meanwhile for the caramel, place all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to the boil for 10 minutes,Pour the caramel mixture over the shortbread. Chill in the fridge until the caramel has cooled and hardened slightly.
  4.Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Once melted, pour the chocolate over the caramel. Chill in the fridge again until the chocolate has set, then cut into  squares.
  
  
  Hope you like them! I found that you don't necessarily need the vanilla pod as it doesn't really add as much flavour as you would think. Also it does take a good 3 hours to set in the fridge! The original recipe is here

Recipe: Hot Chocolate Pudding

Hello :)

Sorry I havnt posted in a long while I have been busy moving house, starting uni again and dealing with the usual annoying bits of life!!

As next week is national chocolate week I though I would share one of my absolute favourite chocolate  recipes! It is good for winter, and seeing as it has just turned cold its perfect right now.

Ingredients:

2 tsp Baking Powder

50g Dark Chocolate Roughly Chopped

175g Soft Dark Brown Sugar

125g Plain Flour

4tbsp Cocoa Powder

50g Caster Sugar

100ml Milk

1 Large Egg

50g Unsalted Butter

175ml Boiling Water

Method:

1. Heat the over to 180' and melt the butter.

2. Sift together the flour, baking powder,caster sugar and half the cocoa powder in a bowl.

3. In a separate bowl mix together the milk, egg and melted butter.

4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until smooth and then add the dark chocolate.

5. Pour into a greased dish.

6. Mix together the brown sugar with the remaining cocoa powder and sprinkle over the top, then pour over the boiling water.

7. Bake for 30-35 minutes and serve hot.

This isn't the most elegant of puddings but it tastes so good you wont even care.