...she also loved caramel...
... and brown butter.
One day this girl decided to make shortbread cookies with caramelized sugar and browned butter.
CARAMEL BROWN BUTTER SHORTBREAD
- 120 gr (4.3 oz) sugar
- 200 gr (7.1 oz) salted butter*
- 300 gr (10.7 oz) flour
* Or if you only have unsalted butter, add a pinch of salt.
Star by doing a dry caramel: Take a dry pan to the stove and heat it for 1 minute. Add the sugar and it will star caramelizing on the edges, move gently with a spoon until all sugar is melted and with a nice caramel color. At this point add the butter cut into very small chunks. The caramel will bubble so be careful. Keep mixing until all the butter is melted and the mixture starts to get a darker color, don't get carried away or you might burn it. We want brown butter, not burnt butter ;)!
Let it cool slightly and add the flour mixing well, either by hand (carefull if it's still hot) or in a mixer. Take to the fridge until the dough is completely cool. Roll between 2 pieces of cling film or in a floured surface and cut as you like. Bake in a preheated 170ºC (325ºF) oven, until they are golden brown and delicious.
The girl was so happy with her cookies! They had a subtle caramel flavour and were extra crunchy, still beeing buttery. In fact she liked them so much she had to freeze most of the cookies so she wouldn't eat them...
... and then she ate them frozen.
The end.
68 comments:
CARAMEL shortbread?!?!??! Are you freaking serious?!?!??! As a major caramel fanatic, I am BEYOND tempted by that recipe - THANK YOU!! :-D
Lol! I loved the ending! I can imagine (so well and close to my heart it's frightening) a girl eating frozen shortbread!
And I loved the recipe! So want to try it! :)
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mariana
The caramel and brown butter make these sound so good. Also, I ate frozen cake yesterday ;)
Those look deadly delicious...
those are so adorable! they sound delicious - i love the addition of caramel!!
Hehe.. I love how the story ends!
And once, there was a girl who wished she had these in *her* freezer... :)
Caramel + Shortbread... mmm this sounds good... when you mentioned frozen I thought of ice cream sandwiches made with this COOKIES! Love the story :)
Yay... this is great! the ingredients are so simple and sounds so easy to make!
Ho. Ly. Crap. That looks so good! That whole thing is made of win.
I would eat them frozen too! You could send some to me...
LOL, I like how you told the story and I think I know of ANOTHER girl who loves those things as well but who loves them even more when someone else makes them and she just cleans up the mess.
~ingrid
These are the kind of happy-ending stories I wish I had heard growing up before bedtime. The story of the happy caramel shortbread that got eaten even frozen! This looks amazingly delicious! Can't wait to try it.
I love happy endings. =p
I love how such few ingredients can make something so delicious
That sounds like my kinda girl :). Delish!
Good story...and good shortbread. :)
Love the story and the shortbread. What a good idea and it looks really good too.
DELISH BEYOND WORDS! How yum can cookies get!!
Hee! I love that! the pic with the brown edges...I love brown crunchy edges on cookies. Caramel and brown butter sound like am amazing combination!
Wow crunchy, buttery and yum.
lol..even the freezer couldnt keep you away!
Wow, sounds like that girl really knows what she likes! And they look FANTASTIC! What a great combination too!
Simply perfect!!!
You scare me ! I have to resist trying to make them !!
I know a BOY who would like this story. In fact I'm married to him. I think I'll make these for him the next time he needs a present.
You are too clever Rita. You might end up being in trouble. Like I might come and live in your flat, for instance. And eat your cookies.
amazing ... only three ingredients? and look what you've created? they look and sound fabulous!
A recipe with hardly any ingredients? I'm saving this for a study day when I need a quick sweet fix.
Yum! Love the pics and love that the recipe is so simple! Most of all, love your write up. Who is the girl, she and I, we'd be great friends! ;)
....and this was a very smart girl!
You know I'm totally trying this one and I will not be tempted to add anything, as it's perfect.
I bet thet were awesome frozen...how yummy.
I love short stories...they're my favorite. I'm thinking these cookies might be my favorite too.
Caramel brown butter short bread sounds amazing!
That's what I do! I freeze my baked goods to prevent me from eating them! But then I end up eating them frozen. That's hilarious.
These look soooooooooo good! I am very excited by these flavors!
Caramel and shortbread together can't wait to try they look great.
Short bread is one of my favorite cookies. Mind you I would say no to any cookie lol. Wonderful recipe!
Does this girl love only caramel, brown sugar & shortbread? ;)
Tell me more what she likes! Why the story has to end?? :)
YUMMMMMM! Looks great!
This may just be the greatest shortbread recipe i have ever laid eyes on...oh wow zesty is smiling!
Menudas galletas, estan de muerte, y tienen que tener un sabor impresionante...
Muy ricas...
ana
I love a happy ending.
I'm eager to try this receipt out tomorrow.
Hale, otra asignatura pendiente, el shortbread. No sé yo qué tal me llevaría con el caramelo y la mantequilla salada pero seguro que la textura tiene que ser una delicia.
Hi!
I tried to make this delicious looking shortbread today, but I've a problem: after cooling down the dough is very crumbly, so it was almost impossible to shape anything of it. Did I something wrong?
caramel shortbread :-)!! that sounds great :)!!
Prjanik- Sorry if you had problems with the recipe. My dough was also slightly crumbly after beeing in the fridge, but as soon as I pressed it between my hand it came together nicely, still I prefered to roll it between 2 pieces of film to press better without sticking. Maybe the type of flour you used absorbed more liquid and so mayde it more crumbly, or you let the butter cook a bit more causing more evaporation. Those are just my first thoughts...
I added these to my short list as soon as I saw them! How delicious they must be!
Can't wait to make these! I love the combo of caramel and shortbread!
Wow, your shortbread look so tender and buttery.
Cheers,
elra
Good morning!
Maybe you're right with the type of the flour. Anyway I've to try this receipt again because yesterday I made an additional mistake and let my "cookies" a bit too long in the oven. Thy taste good (!) but now we need good teeth :)
Prjanik- Thanks for keeping me posted ;)!
*drooooooooooool* caramel and brown buuttteeerrr XD yuumm!
Caramel+butter+shortbread=HEAVEN. That is all.
this is perfect! i love shortbreads and caramel too, and put them together--it's gotta be the bomb!.. "and she ate them frozen" - this cracked me up! i totally would too... lol.
Yum! Shortbread are irresistible enough but caramel shortbread--I can see why they wouldn't be safe even in the freezer!
Love shortbread, I posted a recipe today:) I have got to try this one next. It looks superb!
I love all of those things too. Wonderful recipe.
YUM! Lady, these shortbread cookies put Girl Scouts trefoils to shame and you better believe I heart my GS cookies!
What an adorable post!
This is a genius idea, Rita! Amazing looking cookies!
Caramel shortbread is such a great idea! Sounds easy to make too. Thanks for sharing.
That is some seriously deep flavors for good old shortbread. Love it!
This girl would kill for one of those right now! Sugar need alert over this end.
Ok you and all these sweets, I can not take it. Every time I come here i gain 50 lbs just reading, lol.
Hi, I had a question about this recipe!
When you add the butter to the melted sugar, are the two supposed to blend together, or do they still remain as two separate layers? I couldn't get mine to really combine, so I just mixed the two as best as I could.
Also, how cool should the mixture be before adding flour? I waited a little bit (the mixture was still pretty hot) before adding the flour, but the sugar had already hardened a little, so it didn't really mix in well.
In spite of all the mistakes I made, it was still delish, so I can't wait to actually make it the right way!
Ljkxkkb,
I'm glad it turned out after all your problems! You do have to mix very well, but the dought will always look kind of crumbly. The trick is to press it well before baking. Good luck!
Mine are quite a failure, I couldn't do anything with the dough after taking it out of the fridge, it was too stiff to move! So I'm really really disappointed. My mom put the crumbs in the oven because I would have thrown it out, but I hate when food doesn't look good.
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