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Caramel Hand

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A hand-shaped shortbread biscuit with caramel in its palm and a dark chocolate coating, inspired by Cadbury's Caramel Fingers.

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The chocolate coating set to a matte finish, a large knife waiting alongside
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Biscuit Base: 3oz Flour 3oz Sugar 3oz Margarine

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Caramel Hand: the archived recipe

Condensed from the original account by CantabSnacks, published 2006-05-21. The quantities and method are the contributor’s; this is not a new kitchen test.

Ingredients recorded

  • Biscuit base: 3oz flour
  • 3oz sugar
  • 3oz margarine
  • Caramel: 2oz sugar
  • 1oz butter
  • A little milk (or cream)
  • Chocolate: 1-2 bars of Tesco Value dark cooking chocolate, 100g bars in the photograph

The account counts the chocolate by bar, 1-2 bars, with no weight written; the ingredient photograph shows two Tesco Value plain chocolate bars labelled 100g. The caramel steps come from the photo captions and give no times. Cost about £5.

Method recorded

  1. Trace round your hand on greaseproof paper as the template.
  2. Make the biscuit mix from the flour, sugar and margarine and shape it into the hand, with a dip in the palm for the caramel later.
  3. Bake for 15/20 mins at 190 Centigrade until golden brown.
  4. Heat the sugar and butter for the caramel until it is bubbling hot; the maker’s caramel went wrong at this point.
  5. Melt the chocolate in the microwave on High, spread it on the base and leave it to chill in the fridge.
  6. Bring the caramel back on course with a bit of milk, or cream, then fill the dip in the palm and spread some along the fingers; chill for a while.
  7. Spread melted chocolate over the whole hand and chill again before the cross-section.

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Cadbury’s Fingers are, well, a bit rubbish. Boring, small, yet nice none the less. They could be pimped up a bit.

Nah, something still missing. Oh, wait, the CARAMEL ones are ace. And quite blingin’.

But that’s still not quite right. You know, we need a whole HAND.

Ingredients

Biscuit Base:
3oz Flour
3oz Sugar
3oz Margarine

Caramel:
2oz Sugar
1oz Butter
A little milk

Chocolate:
1-2 bars of Tesco Value dark cooking chocolate

Cost: ~£5

Kitchen scales, flour, granulated sugar, a Stork tub and a mixing bowl laid out on a desk

Here we see the natural habitat of Homo Studensis Cantabrigiensis. Note the collection of clutter in the periphery, the computer, the packet of ice cream wafers awaiting a pimp, and a battered copy of Delia Smith’s Complete Cookery Collection. Sham on!

Let me tell y’all what’s it’s like, being male, middle-class, and white. It’s grease proof paper if you don’t believe, tracin’ round my pimpin’ hand.

Raw shortbread dough shaped into a giant splayed hand on baking paper

Too busy pimpin’ to take a shot of the biscuit mix, but it’s then shaped into the handy hand shape, with a dip in the palm bit – we’ll need that later, mo’ fo’s.

In da hood, er oven, for 15/20 mins on a blingin’ 190 Centigrade! Big it up for the East Anglia Massive until golden brown.

The hand-shaped shortbread baked golden and puffed, still on its baking paper

Tasty tasty! Me shorty will love the shortybread.

Caramel bubbling in a small pan, stirred with a wooden spoon on the hob

It’s bubblin’ a hot hot hot caramel!

The caramel seized into a grainy solid lump clinging to the wooden spoon

It’s looking good! Proper chewyness comin’.

Crumbly seized caramel piled onto the palm of the baked biscuit hand

I pity the foo’ who’s caramel ain’t down with it.

The biscuit hand covered in a thin, dark, uneven brown layer on baking paper

So while I think of a new way to fix the caramel, spread the chocolate (which has been nuked on High) on the base. Leave it chillin’ in the fridge. (Do some General Relativity Examples Papers while you wait)

Mix you milk with my caramel, milky milky goo. A bit of milk (or cream if you’re extra bling) gets the caramel back on course.

Smooth glossy caramel poured over the palm and fingers of a biscuit hand

Here’s that dip now filled, and some spread on the fingers. Proper face-of-bo. Chillax it for a while.

Here, CantabSnacks went out for the night, to the venerable Cambridge Union Society for another entertaining debate. There was much rejoicing. And there may have been some consumption of this new-fangled alkyhol. But not much. We students don’t drink, no sir we don’t like the taste.

The whole hand coated in wet, shiny melted chocolate on baking paper

Spread delicious tasty melted chocolatey goodness over the hand, it’s looking proper west side, heavy hit (of calories) after heavy hit. Chill with the homies, maybe do a little Nuclear Physics, or just go to the pub.

The chocolate coating set to a matte finish, a large knife waiting alongside

Bling!

A wedge cut from the palm, showing the pale shortbread layer under the chocolate

Final step: invite your shorty round and finger her (or thumb, it’s all got that biscuitycaramelly goodness.) Don’t forget obligatory cross section. Can you see the tasty caramel? No? Well, it is there.

No comparison, ’cause ‘The Man’ at Sainsbury’s don’t sell ’em. However, it’s as big as my hand, foo’. WIKID INNIT!

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