A Slice Of Family Tradition Caramel Slice Recipes

CARAMEL SLICE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F (fan 160°C)
• Grease and line a 28x 18cm (lamington pan) / 7" x 11" rectangle pan with baking/parchment paper (Note 2). Have overhang for ease of removal.
• Mix together Base ingredients and press into a pan (I use an egg flip)
• Bake for 15 minutes until the surface is golden. Cool in fridge if you have time (Note 3).
• Lower oven to oven to 160°C/320°F (fan 140°C)
• Place butter, sugar and vanilla in a saucepan over medium low heat. When the butter is melted, whisk to combine with sugar, then just leave it until it comes to a simmer.
• When bubbles appear, add condensed milk. Whisk constantly for 5 minutes (Note 4), until you start getting some big slow bubbles on the base.
• Once bubbles start appearing, whisk for 1 minute, then pour onto Base. Tilt pan to spread evenly.
• Bake for 12 minutes. Don't worry if you get splotchy brown bits (this happens with ovens that don't distribute heat evenly).
• Cool on counter for 20 minutes then refrigerate 30 minutes - bottom of pan should be warm but surface cool (not cold) to touch. (Note 5)
• Place chocolate and oil in a microwave proof bowl. Microwave in 30 second bursts, stirring in between, until chocolate is fully melted (takes me 4 x 30 sec).
• Pour over caramel, spread with spatula. Then gently shake pan to make the surface completely flat.
• Refrigerate 1 hour or until set. Remove from fridge and leave out for 5 minutes to take chill out of chocolate slightly. Then cut into bars or squares to serve!

CARAMEL SLICE SQUARES

Steps:

• BASE- Line bottom of a 9x9 pan or 6 1/2 x 10 pan with graham wafers, cutting to fit if necessary.
• FILLING- In pot add butter or margarine, sugar, milk, and beaten egg.
• CAREFULLY bring to a boil, then turn down heat, stirring all the while until well dissolved and begins to thicken.
• Take off heat, add the Graham Wafer crumbs, coconut and the walnuts.
• Spread on base, top with the Graham Wafers cutting to fit if necessary and frost with white Butter Icing.
• WHITE BUTTER ICING.
• Cream butter, add the milk and vanilla.
• Add icing sugar gradually to mixture until you have a nice spreading consistency adding more if needed.
• NOTE- When frosting the cake I use just enough icing to nicely cover the cake.

NO-BAKE CARAMEL SLICE

Steps:

• Line a 20cm x 30cm slab pan with non-stick baking paper, leaving 2cm overhanging each side.
• Combine rice bubbles, apricots, sultanas and almond in a large bowl.
• Place the caramello chocolate and cream in a saucepan.
• Stir over low heat until melted and smooth.
• Stir through the rice bubble mixture.
• Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and press firmly to smooth the surface.
• Place in the fridge for 3-4 hours, or until firm.
• Put white chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, stirring, until melted.
• Place white chocolate into a small plastic'Glad' sandwich bag, snip off a small piece of one of the bottom corners- drizzle the white chocolate over the top of the slice.
• Leave for approximately 5 minutes, until set, using the overhanding paper remove from the pan.
• Cut into squares.