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Caramel Squares

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Servings: 8–12 Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, difficult, english, irish, recipes for cake, recipes for caramel, recipes using butter, recipes using chocolate, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes with images, recipes with metric units, scottish

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3ACaramel_Squares)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3ACaramel%20Squares&oldid=4587360

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

Base

  • 350 g self-raising flour
  • 225 g unsalted butter
  • 110 g caster sugar

Filling

  • 225 g caster sugar
  • 225 g unsalted butter
  • 5 Tablespoons golden syrup
  • 400 ml full-fat condensed milk

Topping

  • 340 g good-quality chocolate (milk or dark), melted

Directions

Base

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4; 350°F). Rub flour, butter, and caster sugar together until it resembles breadcrumbs.
  2. Press into a 25 x 38 x 4 cm Swiss roll pan.
  3. Bake for 20 minutes or till golden.
  4. Cool.

Filling

  1. Melt butter in a heavy-based saucepan over a low heat; add sugar, golden syrup, and condensed milk.
  2. Stir continuously for 40–50 minutes. It should be golden brown in colour when ready to eat. To test, drop a little blob into a bowl of cold water; it should firm up.
  3. Pour this caramel mixture over the base, and let it cool.

Topping

  1. Pour melted chocolate over the top.
  2. Spread the chocolate evenly, and let set.