Gooey Caramel Shortbread

So I made some Caramel Shortbread the other day and the caramel was so gooey and sweet it was amazing! so much that I wanted to share the recipe with you all, so you can make some and see how amazing it is for yourselves. 

I used a food processor, you don't have to you could mix the ingredients by hand but this saves time. 

Pr-heat your oven to 150 degrees

Add 1 cup of Plain flour to the food processor

Then add 1/4 cup caster sugar...

and a pinch of salt

Then add 125g Butter and a drizzle of vanilla Extract, wizz it all up in the food processor until it starts clumping together like this:

Take the mixture out and kneed it slightly in a bowl till it forms a nice dough.

Then flatten it out into your baking tray/dish. I didn't use any greaseproof paper which meant it was hard getting it out after so my advise would be to line your tray with some first!

Then place it in the oven for 40 minutes or until golden brown.

Then you'll need to make your Caramel sauce. 

In to a sauce pan place 1 cup caster sugar and then enough water to cover the sugar. 

On a low heat, slowly boil the sugar, DO NOT STIR! 

As it starts to boil it will look like this:

Don't take your eye off it because it will only take a matter of seconds to go from this to a light brown colour. So quick I didn't have time to take a picture! As soon as this happens take it off the heat as if it goes too dark then it will have burnt and not taste nice at all! (this happened to me the first time I did it and it was horrid) 

Then add 50g of butter and half a cup of cream to it and stir this in. You should get a nice gooey caramel that looks like this:

Although it's tempting make sure you let it cool a little before tasting as it will be really really hot!

Once it's cooled, spread it over the top of your shortbread

While this is setting slightly, melt 200g of Chocolate

Then spread this on top of the caramel:

Pop it in the fridge to set and then soon you'll have scrumptious gooey caramel shortbread ready to eat!