Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt.
I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I'm going to show you how to make Homemade Twix.
I love Twix cookie bars.
They are so good.
One of my favorite desserts or candy bars, if you will.
And they're really easy to make at home.
I like these actually better than the store-bought ones.
So if you love Twix, you're going to love these
really easy to do simple ingredients.
If I can do it, you can do it.
I did a video on this several years ago, and I like the way
that I do them now better.
And so I'm updating that older video.
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Let's get started down below.
In the description box, you'll find a list of the
ingredients and their amounts.
Now to begin, we need to make the shortbread cookie base.
And so this is just a basic four ingredient shortbread.
And so I'm going to take my food processor here,
and you do not have to do this in a food processor.
You can do this by hand with like a pastry blender and a
bowl so you do not need a food processor.
I'm going to preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
or 176 Celsius.
Now I'm going to add.
This is one half cup of butter plus three tablespoons.
And this is softened butter.
Add that to the food processor.
And then one half cup of white granulated sugar.
I'm just going to put this on and give it a good pulse.
Just so mixes that sugar in with the butter a little bit.
And now we're going to add this is two cups of
all purpose flour.
You can also use cake flour.
Don't use self-rising flour.
And then half teaspoon of salt, and I'm going to go
and scrape the sides here.
And now put this
back on, and we'll give it
a low.
Turn on low, and we're going to mix this until it develops.
It looks like damp sand.
And just come in here and give a good scrape again.
OK,
so to look like that, you know, it looked
like damp sand.
And this is just a basic shortbread cookie.
And I remove that.
And if you are doing this in a bowl or use a pastry blender or
like a fork and you'll just mix it all together.
And now I have as many bread loaf pans, and you can use
larger ones if you want.
I just kind of like the size that it makes when I
cut these up.
But you could use a much larger pan if you want.
Like in my previous video that I did for these, I used a big
thirteen by nine pan.
But then you had to cut it and they get pretty big.
I think in the version that I have called Oreo Twix,
those are really good.
So if you love of, you have to check out the Oreo Twix.
This is the method that I use with a mini bread loaf pans.
I just really like it.
And then I sprayed these mini loaf pans with cooking spray.
And now we want to put in put in our base.
And when I'm filling these out, normally, what I'll
do is I'll come in here with a tablespoon and I'll just put
one scoop there.
One scoop in that one.
And then I'm going to just.
Kind of equally spread out.
This amongst all of them.
All right.
Once you have it all equally in these little pans, I'm glad you
take my spin and I'm going to just press it down really,
really well.
Just pack that shortbread base down.
And now, once these are all packed down, put these in the
oven and we're going to bake these for 12 to 15 minutes
until it gets lightly golden brown on top, you don't want to
bake it too long, so don't get it too brown because then the
base will be super crumbly.
So just start slightly golden brown on top.
Onto that step.
And when they come out of the oven, they'll look
something like this little bit blond in color.
And these wound up taking about 17 to 18 minutes.
The time will just depend on your oven.
All right, now we're going to let these cool for 30 to 45
minutes until they cool completely to that step.
Once the shortbread cookie base has time to cool, what we want
to do now is melt the caramel and I have about 11 ounces of
caramel here and I just got a bag.
The 11 ounce bag of the Kraft brand individually
wrapped caramels, but you could use pretty much whatever brand
of caramel that you want.
So what I want to do is I'm going to add about a tablespoon
and a half to two tablespoons of cream.
You could also use milk whole milk.
And the reason why I'm using the cream is this is going to
allow the candle to get creamy.
And when it sets and cools, it remains creamy and
doesn't harden up.
All right.
I'm going to just melt this in the microwave oven bursts of 25
30 seconds in stirring, etc.
until it melts.
You can also do the double boiler method with this on the
stovetop onto that step.
All right.
And once it is melted, we want to do is I'm going to kind of
do the same method as I did before.
Just take a spoonful and make sure I do at least one
spoonful of caramel.
On each one of these.
At any time, if the caramel starts to get to.
Cool, and you can't.
Port, easily then just reheat it.
And you can always buy extra caramel if you want and use a
little bit more caramel than I'm using, once you have the
caramel in there, we're going to put these in the
refrigerator and let them chill for about an hour.
We want to make sure the caramel gets really cold
onto that step.
Once the caramel tart has had a chance to cool and set again,
it'll be about an hour in the fridge.
Time to melt the chocolate and we're going to dip them.
Now I am using this candy quick, so log house candy
quick brand of melting chocolate or candy coating.
I really like it.
It melts really thin and just a great dipping chocolate,
but you can use whatever chocolate you want to do.
And so you can make semi-sweet like you semi-sweet chocolate
chips and do like a semi-sweet Twix.
You could do milk chocolate Twix.
You could do a dark chocolate Twix, white chocolate
Twix use like your favorite lint chocolate bar
or Ghirardelli, whatever you want to do.
So you can do a lot of different variations
if you want.
I'm just going to do this one for now, and I'm just going to
melt this in the microwave 30 seconds, stir 30 seconds,
stir until it's completely melted.
You can also use the double boiler method on the stovetop
and that step.
Oh, right.
The chocolate is nice and melted.
Very runny.
That's what we want.
If you are using something like chocolate chips, you probably
want to use a couple of teaspoons of oil,
vegetable oil, canola oil, coconut oil and mix that in
with the chocolate.
And it'll make it much more runny or runner.
and easier to dip.
All right.
And just this right here and now I take one of these out
of the fridge.
You want to do this one at a time?
And so the remainder of these can just stay in the fridge and
stay chilled otherwise.
The caramel gets soft and is just harder to cut and dip.
And so while there's just kind of pulled apart the the sides a
little bit just to loosen this up
and it'll come right out and then we'll do cooking
side down.
Do not put the caramel side down because it'll stick and
get stuck to your cutting board.
And then I have a knife right here, and I just sprayed
it lightly with some cooking spray, and then I'm
just going to cut this in pieces.
Like so and then what I'm going to do is I want to depose
in the chocolate.
So I'll take one of these pieces.
I'll put it right there in the chocolate and then I'll
take a fork.
And you just go underneath it and let the excess drain,
that's why I like using a fork.
Just give it a little tap in your hand and I hope it drain
and then just let it slide right off onto a sheet pan or
cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
OK, and then just continue with the pain, all of these.
And when you are done dipping in, depending on
the charter, you use that candy coating or that chocolate candy
quick that I was using by the time I'm done, most of them
have already set.
But if you need to, you just put it in the fridge for about
15 minutes to allow the chocolate coating to set.
And now they are ready to go.
You can eat them just like this.
You could also trim the edges at the bottom if you want
with a knife.
Also, if you want to get a little fancy, you can do some
little white chocolate drizzled.
Drizzle some white chocolate on top.
And I usually will do a combination of flavors as
well as designs.
For these all, leave a bunch of them blank or just normal,
and then I'll do a bunch with designs and then I'll do some
with dark chocolate, white chocolate, etc.
Just so there's something for everybody if I'm going to
be serving these.
And there we go.
Homemade Twix.
Awesome.
I'm going to grab one of these and show you what it looks like
on the inside.
Mm hmm.
Mm-Hmm.
I love these.
Super easy, homemade Twix.
If I can do it, you can do it.
I'm Matt Taylor.
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Time for me to dive into this.
Some more.
Oh yeah.
Mm hmm.
Hmm.