My youngest sister, Hayley, came up from the Hawkes Bay to stay in the weekend. Her favourite thing is caramel slice and I usually make some for her – chocolate shortcake base with caramel and then chocolate topping. But this time she told me that there is a café in Hastings that sells caramel slice that she adores and she bought a piece up with her for me to re-create.
To be honest I didn’t think that the one Hayley wanted me to make was as nice as the caramel slice that I usually make. It was a bit like tan square, but chocolate, and it almost tasted like it wasn’t cooked through properly. The chocolate taste was a little insipid – I like a more pronounced chocolate flavour.
The one that I made is above. I actually preferred my one! It is a little more chocolatey than the original and not quite as sugary. The caramel is really yummy – quite gooey and rich! The recipe I created is below:
Tammy’s chocolate caramel slice
Base:
160g butter
1 c sugar
1 tbsp golden syrup
1 egg
2 c flour
¼ c cocoa
1 ½ tsp baking powder
· Soften butter until almost melted and then cream with sugar. Add golden syrup and then egg.
· Stir in rest of ingredients.
· Press half the mixture into a lined 23cm square tin. Pour over caramel (see below) and then patch rolled out pieces of the remaining dough over the top to cover.
· Bake at 170 deg for about 20 minutes
Caramel:
Melt together 1 400g tin condensed milk, ½ c brown sugar, 2 tbsp golden syrup and 50g butter, stirring until thick
2 comments:
This cake is one of the most divine things that I have tasted - which is saying a lot being able to experience Tammy's amazing baking! I am so lucky to be the sister of such an excellent baker and cook, this slice is definitely one to make yourselves!!!
Hi Tammy, have just stumbled across your blog, I was searching for a Julie Le Clerc receipe for caramel slice. I must say that you are very inspiring and you can write a good story. Thought I would contact you because you and I have a few things in common ie- passion for cooking and running and I also note that you enjoy organic produce, as do I. So I thought you may also be interested in some products that I have been using for the last 2 - 3 years that get rid of all the bad toxins and are extremely reasonable. I just purchase these products directly off the manufacturer over the internet. If you are interested I would be more than happy to let you know where to look. Kind regards - Helen :-)
P.S. Have you tried the Jamie Oliver "Home" receipe for his incredible roast lamb - takes 4 hours to cook and is so extremely succulant (another great one to impress the inlaws with ;-)
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