Cake on Friday: Biscoff Millionaires Shortbread
This month’s Cake on Friday recipe is a hardcore treat of greatness. Easy to make. Easy to eat. Just watch those sticky paws on the game cards.
Ingredients
Base
• 2 x 250g packets of Lotus Biscoff• 50g Butter or your favourite alternative
Caramel
• 1 tin condensed milk• 150g Butter
• 150g Soft Dark Brown Sugar
Topping
• 300g Chocolate (I use 70%)• 2 tablespoons of Biscoff Mix left over from the base.
Equipment
• 25.5cm (10 inch) x 20.5cm (8 inch) Deep Tin• Baking parchment
• Mixing bowl
• Wooden spoons
• Spatula
• Saucepan
• Blender/Food Processor (Optional)
Method
- Line the tin with baking parchment – look online if you are not sure how.
- Using a blender or food processor, break up the 2 packets of Biscoff into a fine crumb. (yes, you can eat one or two in the process). If you don’t have a blender/food processor, put the biscuits in a plastic bag and break them up with a rolling pin or something heavy (not your mom’s favourite vase). Put two tablespoons of the crumbs in a tub for later.
- Melt 50g of butter, add it to the crumbs and mix it all up with a wooden spoon.
- Put the mix into the tin and pack it down hard. Then put it in the fridge.
- In a saucepan, melt the 150g butter and mix in the sugar.
- When it is mixed together and reasonably smooth add the condensed milk and stir until it is boiling vigorously.
- At this stage it is as hot as the lava pools of Mount Doom and as sticky as sovereign glue so DO NOT LICK THE SPOON.
- Pour over the Biscoff base and spread it around until you get an even coverage.
- Put back in the fridge. Check how hot the spoon is and if it's not too bad, it can now be licked.
- Melt the chocolate gently in a microwave and stir it until smooth.
- Get the cake out of the fridge and pour the chocolate over the top.
- Sprinkle over the Biscoff crumbs you set aside in step 2. Then put the cake in the fridge for a few hours to set.
- Bribe a housemate/parent/sibling/child to do the washing up with a promise of a share in the cake.
- When set, cut into squares and serve during game night.