Recipe: Transform Store-Bought Easter Eggs into Loaded Caramel Eggs with Shortbread Dippers

MILLIONAIRE’S SHORTBREAD EASTER EGGS

Easter is here and it’s time to get chocolate wasted! While you might have plans to go about your usual practice of stuffing your face with plain old shop-bought Easter eggs, we say it’s time to get creative and try your hand at jazzing them up a little bit. This sweet take on the classic Eggs and Soldiers breakfast dish sees Katelyn from The Kate Tin whip up a batch of Millionaire’s Shortbread Easter Eggs loaded with salted caramel sauce and served with buttery shortbread dippers on the side (pure heaven!). Here’s how to make them yourself.

The luscious caramel sauce used inside the Millionaire Shortbread Easter Eggs is made with Soft Brown sugar, which gives it a lovely fudgy flavour. The Natura Sugars Demerara Sugar and Golden Caster Sugar are the secrets to the melt-in-the-mouth shortbread that is beyond easy to make!

MILLIONAIRE’S SHORTBREAD EASTER EGGS

MILLIONAIRE’S SHORTBREAD EASTER EGGS

Makes 8

Ingredients:

6-8 hollow chocolate Easter Eggs (try and get ones with the best-quality chocolate you can find!)

Salted Caramel Filling
150g salted butter
150g Natura Sugars Soft Light Brown Sugar
150ml cream
40g good-quality milk chocolate, chopped

Shortbread Dippers
200g salted butter, softened
100g Natura Sugars Demerara Icing Sugar, sifted
200g cake flour
100g cornflour
Natura Sugars Golden Caster Sugar, for sprinkling

Method:

Using a small sharp knife, cut the tops off the chocolate eggs (you can go ahead and eat the tops – we won’t be needing them).

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To make the salted caramel filling, place the butter and sugar in a saucepan and place over a low heat. Simmer for 8 minutes until the sugar caramelises and just starts smoking. Add the cream gradually while whisking. Stir in the milk chocolate and whisk until smooth. Allow to cool completely.

To make the shortbread, cream the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add the flour and cornflour and mix to form a soft dough. Press the shortbread into a greased and lined square 20cm baking tin. Prick the base with a fork and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 15-20 minutes or until just golden brown. Sprinkle the shortbread with caster sugar as soon as it comes out the oven. Cut into fingers while still hot.

To assemble, fill the chocolate eggs with the caramel sauce. Serve the eggs with a sprinkling of sea salt and the shortbread fingers.

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