Anyone tried Millionaire Shortbread recipe yet?

[iL Divo]

I watched 5 ingredient tv show today. The host made a millionaire shortbread that looked like something my husband would like. Looking online, I found many recipes for it including NL's version using golden syrup.

Wondered if anyone's tried making the millionaire shortbread and if so, how is it? I'll try it when I stock up on sweetened condensed milk. Until then, maybe some of you have tried it and can give me the how to's of what you did and the recipe you used.

Here's the link if you groogle it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&am...

TIA

[Emme]

I've made it using the Joy of Baking recipe as inspiration: http://www.joyofbaking.com/Millionair...
i've done a couple of variations... i've added a little corn syrup to the chocolate, to give it a sheen and a bit of a toothsomeness, just a tad tho... i've also added an egg yolk to the shortbread. i know that makes it not "classic" shortbread, but i kind of liked what it did in terms of holding the dough together just a little bit more. if you prefer classic crumbly shortbread, there's no need to include it. i'd say depending upon your audience, adjust the chocolate you use (bittersweet vs semi vs (gulp) milk).

the most time consuming part is really the dulce de leche, unless you buy it pre-made...

[iL Divo]

I think I'll buy it premade. You can also just straight sweetened condensed in the can, not open it and let it simmer away forever on the stove in simmering water, or something like that. I've seen it done on video's.
Also since my husband is such a nutjob for shortbread, I've tried many versions. I will say, I've done it with the egg yolk and sorry to say, I am a tender shortbread lover. We weren't as pleased with the more solid version, but to each his/her own.
How much corn syrup please and does it make a hard top? I'd like that. Not a gooey top cause if I make it and bring it somewhere it's gotta be able to travel and maybe travel stacked.

[Emme]

i meant doing dulce from the sweetened condensed milk... that's the most time consuming part... otherwise, it's a very straightforward recipe.

re the corn syrup, i just realized that i added way more butter too, to help it set more. i think i did 6 oz chocolate, 1 tsp corn syrup, and somewhere between 1/2 - 1 stick of butter... yes i know, i know, but hey i wasn't looking to make these to cure cancer.

[iL Divo]

the recipe I usually follow for just straight forward shortbread is a quarter a half a whole. so it's all half from the whole. however much flour, 1/2 amount of butter, how ever much butter half amount of sugar.
4 cups *flour
2 cups butter
1 cup sugar

do you remember how long it takes for the sweetened milk in the unopened can to turn? I can and will look it up unless you know off the get go.
Thanks...........
* I always substitute corn starch for some of the flour as it makes a more tender cookie. Maybe with this one though and all the weight on top of it, I should not do it this time for this batch. It may crush the tenderness to crumbs. ;(

[Emme]

like 2 - 3 hours, and i stir every 30-45 min or so.

[chef chicklet]

I made the Rich Man's Shortbread not too long ago and it seems like it's similar all but the toffee. If your google that name a recipe from Sur La Table comes up.
Anyway, other than I added too much toffee, it was great. Super rich and the the shortbread stays moist. I used dark chocolate, and everyone here loved it. It's just super rich is all. Here's my post if you'd like to compare....
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/675027

[iL Divo]

I'm gonna try this one. I bought but didn't need to [cause already had, who knew :( ] sweetened condences milk and try the method they suggested with opening the can and putting it in a bowl and setting that over simmering water covered. the idea of using an unopened can of the stuff and walking away from it [then it exploding because the water has boiled out] scares the divin laylights out of me. and my luck, I'd do just that. have I mentioned overflowing the upstairs bathtub and the $50 K to repair that mess? :(((

[jsaimd]

I also used the joy of bakign recipe - worked well, except my shortbread crumbled as i was trying to make them gf. I saved it with a series of tricks, and they went over fantastically well. They are sweet though.

[lulou23]

Have yet to make it, though I have a recipe somewhere. When I took a trip to England a few years ago, my mother, aunt and I would stop in a bakery and buy a piece every day, in what ever town we were visiting, to take back to our B & B for dessert with tea that night. We wanted to bring some back to my Dad, and stopped in a shop our last night and bought the whole case, but when we got home they tasted nothing like the others we tasted across England.