Caramel shortbread recipe

I hope you  are enjoying my recipes  which are  super simple and easy to cook recipes..  I just wanted to boost my spirits which is at a phase where I feel like I am stuck at a point .   So , here is a recipe ,one that is so simple but is usually ignored for sweeter options…

I was intending to make this  easy  recipe, since it badly needs an innovation in its pictures. Unfortunately, nothing works as per my  plan , I wanted to post this recipe last week but the chocolate  in my pantry was stuck ,till I found it out while I was rearranging my stuff for cleaning and reorganizing .

I always have chocolate bars for baking as I bake a lot with cakes  but I wasn’t in a mood to leave it alone. On top of it, I had some partly used stock of cream  which needed to be finished.

When I feel clouded as I don't  know what to cook and plan I go about checking menus and come googling helps . I used to cook a lot of pastries as trying out new recipes with pastry and baking is always interesting. Chocolate off late has become come a curse for my daughter . She has issues with migraines and some catogary of foods are not permitted soft her. But she has begun to hate the same and so no problems with it.
The beauty of this recipe is that you can do it your way. You can use  fruits and custard instead of chocolate . You can mix and match what you want to pour on to the pastry.

FOR SHORTCRUST:

1 1/2 cup All Purpose Flour

1/2 cups Butter (100 grams)

½ tsp salt

FOR CARAMEL:

11/4 cup sugar

¼ cup (50 grams) butter

¼ cup cream

½ tsp salt

1)2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

FOR CHOCOLATE:

2 tblsp butter

1 cup Dark Chocolate Chips

Method

Preheat oven to 190 degree C. Take a  square pan with parchment paper , keep aside.

Add flour and salt in a bowl then mix well. Add cold butter and rub it into the flour so it resembles a wet sand.

Press this into the square pan and bake for 15 to 20 mins till light golden. Remove and set aside.

Now make caramel. Take sugar in a heavy bottom sauce pan and heat till it starts to bubble and caramlelize.

Swirl the pan but dont stir it. Swirl till the sugar gets nice and golden.

Now add in butter and mix well. Add in cream and mix well. Add salt and vanilla and boil this for 2 mins.

Remove and cool for 5 mins.

Now pour this over the shortcrust and cool this completely.

Melt butter in non stick pan

Add chocolate chips and melt fully.

Pour this over the caramel and chill for 1 to 2 hours.

Now slice into bars.

Serve.