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cookies in a large bowl, there is a quarter cup of brown sugar, a teaspoon of vanilla extract and kosher salt and 1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter , give it a nice regular size and beat until it's smooth and smooth and then we're going to add about a cup of all-purpose flour, I say about a cup because shortbread is pretty forgiving, we're really looking for a bigger consistency here, something that keeps its shape when pressed but still nice and brittle, then we'll just do it generously. butter our favorite baking dish, pour our butter dough and press it down with wet fingers or if you want the top to be really nice and smooth the flat bottom of a pan until it looks like this, then all you What remains to do before baking is to attach. or the act of poking many small holes in our shortbread cookie using a fork and then optionally covering with a sprinkle of raw or turbinado sugar, tapping with our mold to make sure it sticks in place and making a temperature of 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 to 20 minutes until golden, crisp and stiff, let them cool completely on a rack for about an hour before cutting and serving, and there you have it, one of the easiest cookies to make and tastiest to eat in The entire history of humanity is buttery.

Tender It's crispy It has a texture that Paul Hollywood would call very short How can we improve such simple perfection? easy we drown it in caramel and chocolate you will notice that I am making another batch of shortbread cookies here, this time a double batch because we need enough to comfortably fill a lasagna pan like this one, which to speed up the release of the cookies later we are going to line with aluminum foil one sheet trimmed widthwise and the other trimmed lengthwise the same way we would do it for brownies and then why not I also don't want the cookies to stick to the foil.

Let's lubricate them liberally with butter before pressing our butter dough inward. I don't think a mold is going to cut it this time, so I used something big and flat on top too. The uneven biscuits have a bush garter appearance. Similarly, we are dotting our shortbread cookies before placing them in a 350 degree oven, this time for 17 to 22 minutes because it is a little thicker. Let it cool on a rack until completely cool, about two hours. a lot of time to deal with our caramel in a medium saucepan goes half a cup of unsalted butter a 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk I'm sorry you've seen that sometimes I just can't avoid a cup of light brown sugar half a cup of corn syrup and half a cup of heavy cream, you'd have to be crazy to make unsalted caramel too, so a teaspoon of kosher salt and then we head to the stove where we're going to put this whole thing over medium heat.

We try to beat everything together without success and have to resort to a normal size whisk, then we bring this guy to a simmer and beat frequently for about 15 to 20 minutes until it reaches 236 degrees Fahrenheit, it will stop around 225, but only Continue and don't give up to get the right consistency in our caramel. We need to finish between 236 and 240 degrees Fahrenheit. Once the correct temperature has been reached, we will pour our caramel. We are waiting for the shortbread cookies. then we'll use an offset spatula to push it into all the corners and spread it out nice and even and tap it on the counter a few times to pop the bubbles.

Next, we'll set it aside to cool completely because it's time to work. the final elements of our

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cookie a tempered chocolate coating for this we need 8 ounces of dark chocolate, either in wafer form or coarsely chopped, whatever you have will take about 2 ounces, chop it finely and set it aside, this It will be the seed that helps our chocolate temper ooh, the temper of the chocolate depends on that for the name of a new band anyway, let's melt the remaining six ounces of our chocolate under a double boiler, just keep going and throw the chocolate in there, mix it. and let it melt the snot allowing it to exceed a temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit removing it from the heat to finish melting if necessary, then we will remove it from the heat completely and then immediately add our chocolate with seeds.

This will help cool the chocolate and allow it to temper perfectly once it reaches approximately 82 degrees Fahrenheit. We're going to pour it over our cooled caramel pushing it into all the corners and spreading it out really well and even with that spatula we're going to give it a vigorous shake and a few taps to make sure it's nice and even and all the bubbles have popped and then it's time to cover and refrigerate for 10 minutes or until chocolate is set and as you can see I didn't temper my chocolate properly. I heated it too much, so it got a little scratchy, but it's still ready.

Now we will just use the handles of our aluminum foil to lift the cake from the pan, slowly and carefully, we will peel the aluminum and prepare to cut. I'm just going to cut these guys into bars. I think that's its most natural way. We'll see if we get good even coverage across our cross section and we did. The chocolate is cutting a small groove, but they will still turn out great. I tried. Experiment with a bread knife. I do not recommend this. I'll try making long slices through the chocolate first and then pressing down through the caramel and cookie layers, this prevents the chocolate from cracking and gives you nice little even cookies, and there you have it.

It's the only thing on this planet bigger than a bar of Twix, the Millionaire's Shortbread Cookies, a chewy, crunchy amalgamation of chocolate and caramel cookie that you simply have to try to believe is the perfect Valentine's Day cookie. Valentine. I guess so, what's the next major holiday we have? Coming soon to Daylight Savings Time is the perfect cookie for Daylight Saving Time, this episode and many others have been sponsored by Squarespace because they have been an incredible partner in bringing this show and my websites to life. They have a really intuitive and easy system. easy to use platform that made it very easy for someone like me who has never done web design, they have templates, they make domains, they have really good customer service, it's basically a one stop shop for creating a really slick website if you want to try . do it yourself, you can start your free trial today by visiting squarespace.com and barra babish to get 10% off your first purchase.