a recipe I can post without violating copyright!

[deird1]

aerintine asked, which was very sensible, because seriously folks, you HAVE NOT LIVED until you have tasted this caramel slice. It is my very favourite thing.

Recipe For Caramel Slice

base:
- 2 packets of Milk Coffee biscuits (by Arnotts)*

Get a deep tray (vaguely 20-by-30cm) and cover the bottom with biscuits. Save the rest of the biscuits for the caramel.

* For you overseas people: we're talking sweet biscuits, very plain, like you'd buy to dunk in coffee. Or possibly for s'mores.


caramel:
- 200 grams of butter
- 2 tins of condensed milk
- 6 tablespoons of brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons of golden syrup
- the rest of the Milk Coffee biscuits (crushed)

Melt the butter, in a saucepan on very low heat.
Add in the condensed milk, sugar, and golden syrup. Keep stirring for ages, until the whole thing caramelises. (You want to keep it going until it's just about to burn.)
Take it off the stove, stir in all the crushed biscuits, and pour the whole thing over the base in the tray.
Put it in the fridge until it's set.


top:
- 120 grams of copha
- 400 grams of dark chocolate

Melt the copha.
Add the chocolate, and wait until it melts too.
Pour the whole thing over the caramel.
Put it back into the fridge until it's set.


Then, cut the whole thing up into little slice-shaped pieces, and enjoy.

Comments

[klme.livejournal.com]

Putting the crushed biscuits in the caramel is absolutely the best part of this slice. Other people don't do this and the caramel is sickly sweet. You want to crush them really well though.
I love and adore this slice, but I suck at making it...

Oh boy! Nummy.

[aerintine]

I looked up copha and we don't have it here in the States. :( I might be able to order it online, though. I'm thinking the Milk Coffee Biscuits are like a tea cookie - I think I can find something similar. Plain graham crackers if nothing else.

What size are the tins of condensed milk in Australia? I believe they're 14 oz here.

And the golden syrup - is that corn syrup?

As you can tell, I very much plan to find a way to make this. :) Thank you for sharing the specs.

Re: Oh boy! Nummy.

[deird1]

So... I actually answered this comment, in detail. But somehow it didn't work. *grumps*

Trying again...


Condensed milk: 395g per tin.
Golden syrup: yes, corn syrup would work as a substitute. So would molasses.
Graham crackers: not sure. But (as far as I can tell from the other side of the world) the kind of texture you're looking for is similar to the animal crackers Willow and Oz are eating in season 2. Or at least I think so. Find something like that, but larger and rectangular.