Homemade Twix Bars
Recipe type: Dessert
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Serves: 20
 
Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • 1¼ cup all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup butter
  • ⅜ cup white sugar
  • 3 tbsp light corn syrup
  • 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Beat butter and ¼ cup sugar in mixer until pale in color.
  2. Add flour to form a crumbly dough similar to pie crust.
  3. Press dough into an 8 inch square baking pan that has been greased and lined with parchment paper.
  4. Bake shortbread base at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown on the edges.
  5. Leave in pan, cool in fridge.
  6. To make caramel layer, bring to boil: ¾ cup butter, ⅜ cup sugar, syrup, and sweetened condensed milk in a saucepan.
  7. Stir constantly once boiling for 7 minutes.
  8. Caramel mixture will thicken and become pale in color. Spread caramel on COOLED shortbread base.
  9. Let caramel layer cool for 30 minutes in the fridge and then an additional one to two hours in the freezer to get the caramel layer stone hard.
  10. To make the chocolate layer, melt chocolate chips over low heat.
  11. Spread melted chocolate directly onto cooled caramel layer.
  12. Let cool for hour, slice and eat.
Recipe by Smashed Peas & Carrots at https://smashedpeasandcarrots.com/twix-bar-fake-out-recipe/