Hi everyone a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen. If you were with me the other day
I made these homemade caramels and they were delicious
Now that got me to thinking I have got caramels I had a box
of shortbread fingers in the cupboard well that's 2/3 of the way to making a Twix
a little bit of melting chocolate let's get on
and make some homemade simple Twix bars
Now quickly before we start
my shortbread biscuits were a little bit short and wide so I've ended up with Twix's
that
aren't the traditional shape if you want those long and narrow Twix's
got a recipe on my site where you can get across to make shortbread
the perfect shape for a Twix but they're still going to taste great I mean look at
this I'll break this one in so you can see what we're going to get
look at that wonderful toffee inside it really doesn't matter
what size they are they taste great.So here
I've got a 9-inch square baking tray I'm just going to smear the inside of this tray
with some butter
now the butter is only there just so that it holds my greaseproof paper
in the tray next we going to take these
shortbread fingers then we're just going to lay them in the bottom of the pan
now what I've done is I'd made my shortbread as close as possible and I've used
a few extra shortbreads around the edge
just to sort of squeeze them up nice and tight like that, next we need to melt
are caramel, now my caramels are a little firmer than I like so I'm putting a couple
of tablespoons of a thick cream
into the bottom of a saucepan and I'm going to take 300 grams about 10 ounces of my
caramels and pop them on top of the cream
then I want to take that over to the stove and just warm it gently
until it becomes nice and liquid I don't want to overheat that caramel so I've taken
it off of the Stove before it's completely
melted I'm just letting the residual heat melt that down so
I've got a lovely smooth toffee so your going to end up with this wonderful
rich slightly runny caramel sauce without any lumps in it
we need to take that caramel now and pour it
over the top of our shortbread I'm going to use my spatula just
ease it up to the edge and get all of these fingers covered
now that is what I'm looking for a nice even coating of the caramel
over the shortbreads that are laid flat now we need to let this completely set
you can pop it in the fridge for a short while it won't take too long till its firm
enough to touch
now I've got a 375 grams that's about 13 ounces
of melting chocolate just going to pop that into a glass bowl
now you can do this in the microwave if you like I like to do it on a pan
with just about an inch of water in and I'm just going to heat that on the stove
until this chocolate is completely melted
now the reason I do it in a double boiler like this is because there's less chance
of it burning
Now look at that that's beautiful and molten now. Now I have some of this
coconut oil and what it is it like a solid
coconut oil I'm going to put a tablespoon of that in there now
and that will just help with the viscosity of the chocolate when I'm coating things
and let that melt in there. Now I've gone and got that out of the fridge and you can see
it's set beautifully
and those extra little shortbreads will actually slide out or they may slide out for you
and what I want to try and do is lift the whole thing
out like that, lay it down on the side, just going to take those
extra little bits of shortbread off there now. I'm going to flip that over so I can
see the shortbread from this side
then what we want to do is to take
our knife and we can cut down between each
of the shortbread and all the way down through the toffee so if you wanted to
you could pull them out like that but I'm not going to I'm going to leave them
laying on the paper for the moment
what I'm going to do is I've got my molten chocolate here
I've got a silicon brush or any brush will do and I'm going to
paint some chocolate on this side of each
of these shortbreads, now bear in mind this is the back of our Twix bar so we're not
too worried about the finish on them
but I'm going to let them completely set now in the fridge again. So now that
chocolate has gone nice and firm
I'm just going to run the knife through there again but this time I'm happy
two separate each of the bars. So we're lifting
each one of these off and we can turn them over we are going to be having them
that way up now
and what I've done is I've laid each of the Twix bars on some little chopsticks or
skewers you decide
I've put them over the baking tray that I was using earlier on
just going to lay them out like that and then when I'm going to do
is I've got a spoon and some of my chocolate here
and I'm just going to pour it over the top of these Twix bars
not going to be too precious about how it goes on
and I want it to run down the sides as well
now there are eight of my Twix's ready and coated I'm going to pop them in the
fridge just to chill down and I'll get on and do some more
so there you have it look at those Twix's they look great that one's cut in half
they taste absolutely fantastic. Are they a lot of work?
yes they're a lot of work you've got to have a bit of passion a bit of a fun
but they taste great and I'm going to try one here you now, give this a try
now is that as good as a real Twix? no it's not
this is a lot better than a real Twix, a lot of work
but if you were to try and wrestle one of these out of my hands for three or four
Twix's
you're not going to win, these taste great now please share the love
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Now I don't know what on earth possessed me to make Twix's today
except for I know there's a lot of people going to be very happy to eat these
it was fun making them, I'd love to hear your comments down below. I'll leave some links to some
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