I
have decided to challenge myself to bake a different cake/biscuit from Marian
Keyes' book, Saved By Cake,
each month, between March and December. I am a beginner at baking and use the
same recipes over and over again so it'll be nice to try something new. I will
take photos and post them on here each month - the good, the bad and the ugly.
Millionaire's Shortbread
This month I gave Millionaire's Shortbread a go. I've never made shortbread or caramel before so it was going to be a bit of a challenge. A challenge, I'm afraid to say, I lost.
I ran into my first problem while making the shortbread (you know, the very first bit). I measured out the ingredients and started to rub in the butter but it went a bit wrong somehow and all the butter stuck to my hands - I looked like I'd been involved in a chemical spill with melty hands. So I thought I'd add a bit more flour and sugar and it seemed to work. The butter stopped sticking to me and I carried on with the recipe.
After the shortbread came the caramel layer, which I'd been a bit scared of. And, as it turns out, rightly so. I didn't just burn the caramel - I burned it to smithereens. I couldn't use it and I didn't have another tin of condensed milk to make more. Oh, crap.
Like my old friend Stephanie from Lazy Town says, there's always a way. So I scrapped the caramel (straight into the wheelie bin) and made chocolate covered shortbread instead. To cheer it up a bit, I added the sprinkles left over from my Jubilee Cupcakes.
Then, when I took the shortbread out of the tin, it turned out parts of it weren't cooked through. So all in all, it was a bit of a disaster. I hope I have better luck next month!
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Caramel is pretty hard to get right, but with a bit of practice it gets so much easier! The few bits of shortbread you salvaged look quite tasty though!
ReplyDeleteI might give it another go some time. The recipe was really straight forward so, like you said, I might just need a bit more practice.
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