Homemade Twix bars recipe {caramel chocolate shortbread}

January 24, 2022 Post a Comment

In today'due south post: The homemade twix bars are piece of cake to make and taste admittedly amazing!

I was doing a niggling dreaming the other day virtually vacation desserts [insert disclaimer here: yes, I know I accept a problem. Christmas is months abroad and I'm already thinking nigh what I'll bake for the holidays. It may be ridiculous, but you know what? If that'south wrong I don't want to be correct…] Anyway, I got thinking nigh my favorite easy shortbread recipe, and I wondered how information technology would gustatory modality if I covered it in caramel. And so covered information technology in chocolate. I was thinking this little concoction I had dreamed upwardly was sounding pretty delicious, so I told my hubby what I was planning and he said: those sound like homemade twix bars, but better.

And my bubble kind of flare-up when I realized yes, these do audio similar homemade twix bars. Now I have aught against twix confined, they're just fine, just I'm not sure I've ever really craved one, y'all know?

Merely luckily for me, this homemade version actually is MUCH BETTER than the candy bar.

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That'due south because this version starts with a super easy, unbelievable delicious shortbread. Flaky, buttery, and crunchy however melt-in-your-oral cavity-y.

And and so it gets covered in a ratherhealthy layer of caramel. And and so chocolate. And then a lilliputian more chocolate. And if you want to get a little salty, yous can even sprinkle fibroid table salt on top of information technology all. Yum!

The best homemade Twix bars recipe

Layers of buttery shortbread, sweet caramel and rich chocolate make these homemade Twix bars amazing!

1 cup Butter softened
2/three cup Powdered Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 cups All Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Salt
11 oz Caramel Squares
1-2 tablespoons two% Milk
1 & i/4 cup Milk Chocolate Chips
1/4 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips optional
Coarse Common salt optional

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Brainstorm by making shortbread. Line a nine inch baking pan with parchment paper.
Beat butter and sugar together until combined. Add vanilla and mix.
Add flour and salt and mix until just combined.
Dump dough into the lined nine inch blistering pan and press out flat.
Broil most 25 minutes until top is gold dark-brown and a toothpick comes out clean.
Unwrap caramels and place in a microwave safe bowl.
Add together 1 to two tablespoons milk and microwave in 30 second intervals until completely melted.
Spread caramel over shortbread. Absurd completely.
Microwave milk chocolate fries in 30 second intervals until melted. Spread over caramel.
If desired, melt semi sweet chocolate chips and drizzle over top.
If desired, sprinkle boosted coarse salt over top.
Cool completely before serving.

How to brand Homemade Twix Confined

Considering the shortbread bakes upward a flake crunchy, y'all really need to remove the entire thing from the pan and piece it with a large, abrupt knife. To brand removal like shooting fish in a barrel, line your pan with 2 pieces of parchment (or wax) paper as shown below:

Afterwards everything is completely cool, y'all'll be able to pull the finished bars out of the pan quite easily.

A few more notes:

The corporeality of milk y'all add to your caramel depends on how soft the caramel is to begin with and how soft you want it to be in your finished bars. I used Kraft caramels, and the consistency varies a lilliputian from bag to bag. If the caramels get-go fairly soft, you may merely want to add together a teaspoon or two of milk. If they outset rock hard, yous might want to use 2 total tablespoons. In the batch I took photos of, the caramels started quite business firm and I only added 1 tablespoon of milk. The caramel gear up fairly firm so information technology sliced nicely and kept its shape, only information technology was a chip chewy when eating. If I'd added 2 tablespoons of milk it would have been softer when eating; however softer caramel too tends to slide out the sides of the bars a bit once they've been sliced. If your caramel ends up too runny you lot can shop these in the fridge, although the shortbread may lose a little of its crunch if stored in the refrigerator overnight.
The shortbread is a niggling crumbly (every bit good shortbread should exist!) and so these are better served on a plate.
The shortbread will stay crunchier if yous store these tightly covered. You lot'll want to eat them all within 2 days. Yield is 16 two inch bars (which is a pretty good size because how rich these are).

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