This slice is a crowd favourite – sticky caramel, roasted macadamia nuts and milk chocolate … what could be more delicious?!
Function: Circo Therm®
Choc Caramel Macadamia Slice
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups macadamia nuts, halved
3/4 cup plain flour
1/2 cup self raising flour
1 tbsp cocoa
1/2 tsp mixed spice
2/3 cup desiccated coconut
1/2 cup brown sugar
150g butter, melted
1x 400g can condensed milk
2 tbsp golden syrup
120g milk chocolate melts
Method
Preheat oven on CircoTherm® to 180°C.
Place the macadamias onto an oven tray and bake for 8-10 minutes until lightly golden. Cool.
Sift the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl then stir through the coconut and brown sugar. Add the melted butter and mix well. Press the mixture evenly into a lined 18 x 28cm slice pan. Bake for 15 minutes. Allow to cool. Reduce the oven temp to 160°C.
Scatter the nuts over the base. Combine the condensed milk and golden syrup, mix well then pour over the macadamias. Bake for a further 25 minutes. Allow to cool.
Once cold drizzle the chocolate liberally over the slice. Allow to firm before slicing. Store in an airtight container until required.
Notes
Refrigerate if the weather is very warm otherwise store at room temperature.
Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.