Home "Twix" (Shortbread cookies with condensed milk and chocolate) Cooking

This cookie is prepared quite quickly and easily, and the result is simply superb! They can enjoy a close family circle, but you can apply for the festive table. The taste reminds all cookies famous "Twix". Although the original of his name - "Millionaire Bars", we call it - "Homemade Twix."

Ingredients: For minced sweet pastry flour - 150 g, butter (well chilled) - 80 g, sugar or powdered sugar - 50 g egg yolks - 1-2 pieces, sour cream (can substitute egg yolks, cream or cold water) - 1-2 tablespoons pinch of salt

caramel condensed milk - 1-1.5 banks butter - 15g

milk chocolate - 200-250 g,

• Part of the milk chocolate can be replaced by bitter

Preparation

Cook chopped sweet dough. Sift the flour and salt in the bowl of a food processor or a large cutting board. Add sugar or powdered sugar.

Cover with diced butter.

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  You can use a food processor with kneading "guitar" (shoulder) or blender with a nozzle-knife.

  
  


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  If you do not combine, you can chop the butter with the flour a large toque with a knife on a cutting board.

  
  

Add 1-2 yolks and mix the dough. Put 1-2 tablespoons sour cream (can substitute sour cream with water, cream, etc.).

Stir the dough - you should get a thick crumbly mixture (uniformity is not necessary to achieve).

The dough thus easily molded (if not - add a little more cream, cream or water).

The resulting dough crumbs lay parchment laid by in a baking dish. Spread evenly over the dough to form compacted hands and chop with a fork.

Remove the dough to form ~ 10 minutes in a freezer or a refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Preheat oven to 180 ° C. Take out the form with the dough from the refrigerator, put in the preheated oven and bake for about 20 minutes until light golden. Remove the sand foundation and cool.

Prepare the caramel. In a small tolstodonnuyu (!) Steel pan pour condensed milk and add a knob of butter. Put the pan with condensed milk to a minimum (!) Heat and simmer, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula, ~ 20-35 minutes (cooking time depends on the thickness of the steel pan and heating intensity). During the preparation of condensed milk will thicken and acquire a light caramel color.

Condensed milk during cooking (thickens and changes color)

Ready boiled condensed milk (caramel) acquires a light caramel color and becomes more dense.

Once removed from the fire caramelized milk - she quickly starts to cool and thicken (chilled reminiscent of toffee).

• If the digest condensed milk - it will be too hard.


• If undercooked - will spread to the shortcakes.

Quickly shift the caramel mass on baked cake and spread evenly over the entire surface.

Tempered (melted) chocolate. In a clean, dry (!) Bowl to put the broken pieces in the chocolate (about 50 grams of chocolate break and set aside). Put a bowl of chocolate on a boiling water bath.

Heat the chocolate in a water bath until it starts to melt well (about 1-2 minutes). Leave a bowl in a water bath, but turn off the fire. Add melted chocolate to the pending 50 g chocolate. Stir until chocolate is completely melted.

Carefully remove the bowl from the water bath, taking care that no drop of water got into the chocolate. Pour melted chocolate on the cake and smooth the surface.

Submitted March 04, 2015 at 06:24PM by qadirbux http://ift.tt/1B0qwg0 Cooking