With layers of soft shortbread rich caramel and dark chocolate Millionaire's Shortbread is a luxurious treat that you can easily make yourself.
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Millionaire's shortbread
Serious Mealtimes / Amanda Suarez
My coworkers know I have a huge sweet tooth: I eat a lot of chocolate mousse I make a killer ice cream cake and I can correctly identify Haagen-Dazs strawberry ice cream with my eyes closed. What they don’t know is that my love—or perhaps more accurately need—for sweets is so great that I turn into a Gremlin after 3 p.m. if I haven’t had my daily sugar fix. When I lived in Scotland that often meant a slice of cake or millionaire’s shortbread a popular British treat made from shortbread with caramel and chocolate.
I no longer live in the UK but I still crave my afternoon slice of millionaire’s shortbread. Unfortunately it’s a little harder to find in the US and the treats I’ve had here have often been disappointingly overly sweet with stale brittle biscuits and a chalky caramel that tastes like it’s got a lot of corn syrup in it. I took it upon myself to create the best version I could: one with a soft crumbly shortbread base and a deeply flavoured just-salty-enough butterscotch filling along with a dark chocolate topping that’s bittersweet enough to keep the dessert from becoming unbearably sweet.
