Celebrity chef Eric Lanlard – also known as Cake Boy – shows First News how to make billionaire shortbread. Eric’s tip: Roll and crumble the mix between your fingers, don’t knead it.
Ingredients
- 250g plain flour
- 175g unsalted butter
- 85g caster sugar
- 100g unsalted butter
- 100g light muscovado sugar
- 750g condensed milk
Method
- Sieve the flour into a bowl then add the caster sugar and 175g unsalted butter. Using your finger tips rub the butter and flour together to make a fine breadcrumbs. Keep doing this until all of the ingredients are combined.
- Tip the mixture into a lined baking tin. Press it down using your finger tips until it is nice and even.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes at 180C until it goes golden brown.
- Add 100g unsalted butter to a pan with 100g muscovado sugar. Stir until the butter and sugar have melted.
- When the mixture starts to bubble add the condensed milk and stir. The mixture should become really smooth and thick.
- Pour the mixture over your baked biscuit base. Leave to set in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Once the biscuit is set pour the melted chocolate on top and spread so it is even. Make sure you get chocolate into all the corners.
- Decorate the top with some edible gold leaf – if you can’t get gold leaf why not use gold sprinkles instead.