How To Make Millionaires Short Bread
Celebrity chef Phil Vickery cooks up a pudding storm! Everybody loves a good pud! From homemade apple pie to granny’s spotted dick or mum’s treacle tart, everyone’s a winner. But how often do you make home-made puds and do you really know where to start?
Well don’t panic! Celebrity chef Phil Vickery is here to save the day. Over the coming months he is welcoming you in to his kitchen to take you through the simple steps to create 6 classic puddings. Last month he made a delicious toffee apple tart and this month he is creating a personal favourite Millionaires Shortbread.
Step 1: Millionaires Short Bread
Hi, I'm Phil Vickery, welcome to my podcast. Welcome to April's podcast. Now today we're making millionaires short bread, which is a really sweet tasty treat for all the family. Now, first of all the ingredients. Here we have butter, unsalted, brown sugar, chocolate, short bread and of course Carnation condensed milk.
Step 2: Melt The Butter And Add Bread Crumbs
Here I've got a small amount of butter which I put into a pan over a very low heat, and we're just going to melt that in two or three seconds. While that's melting we need to make a crumb base. In we go, okay, nice fine bread crumbs. Pour that over the top of the shortbread and mix it in. At this point you think you haven't got enough butter in there, but you have, trust me. Just mix that together, it will take a couple of seconds. And literally put that into there, and with a large spoon just spread that out. But, and this is the big but, don't pack it down too firmly. If you do, you won't be able to cut it at the end.
Step 3: Boil The Mixture
Now for the filling and this is quite an important point here, what you must do is just boil the mixture. If you boil it for too long the caramel will be too firm. Its a very very simple process. Here I've got, again more butter which we'll pop into a saucepan, along with some dark, or soft brown sugar. Now that's partially dissolved, now we're going to add the condensed milk, straight into the pan just like that. My favorite bit, in it goes, don't waste any. What we need to do here is, just again, stir this to a boil. It must only just boil. That is it, it's just bubbling through.
Step 4: Chill
Now we pour this straight on top of the crumbs. You need to let that cool and then pop it in the fridge to chill. Once it's chilled it will end up just like that. So here I've melted some chocolate on the stove over a pan of water, or you can pop it in the microwave, it's up to you. Pour the chocolate right on top of the millionaires short bread. Now there's quite a thick layer of chocolate on here so what I suggest you do is spread the chocolate out like so. Then with a knife just score down into nine pieces before you chill it. It will make it much easier to cut later on. I'll let that set for a second.
Step 5: Ready!
Okay, this one should be ready right now. Now if you just pull the tin slightly apart it should pop out. If not, run a hot knife down the edge. The whole thing should, and does, lift out just like that. And there it is, look at that, isn't that delicious. That's fantastic, millionaires short bread. Straight through what we did earlier, into nine pieces, we'll go around. For more delicious recipies go to the Carnation website.
