stop for a moment, close your eyes as well as picture this: tender, crunchy base, opulent, oozing salted caramel centre as well as a crisp, peanut brittle top. This is exactly how you make the supreme salted caramel peanut slice.

Do you understand who I feel sorry for? The bad souls who are allergic to peanuts. Life should suck for them. No peanut butter, no cookies like these, no satay, no gado gado… in truth travel becomes challenging too.

As I’ve alluded to, Thailand as well as Indonesia are just two of numerous countries that utilize peanuts in so numerous of their dishes… as well as then there’s the airplane snacks… however I digress.

For us lucky un-afflicted, this recipe combines two of my much-loved ingredients – salted caramel as well as crunchy peanut butter.

How to make salted caramel peanut slice

Credit for this needs to go to the Woolworths’ Fresh monthly magazine, where I gleaned the concept for this. I have made a few modifications though – ideally for the better.

I’ve altered a few of the cooking times as well as methods, as well as added a little white miso paste to the filling. This gives a delicious salty umami to the caramel.

I phone call this type of recipe a ‘foot farewell dish’. since it’s likely you’ll never see you feet once again after eating this, so it’s time to state your goodbyes!

Full disclosure, this uses an remarkable amount of butter (we’re speaking 185g!), however do what we do as well as just don’t believe about it!

Here’s what you need

For the base

– 1 cup plain flour
– 1/2 cup brown sugar
– 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
– 125g butter, melted

For the filling

– 395g tin of condensed milk
– 2tbsp golden syrup
– 2tbsp crunchy peanut butter
– 1tbsp white miso paste
– 60g butter, melted

For the topping

– 1/2 cup brown sugar
– 2tbsp golden syrup
– 100g butter, melted
– 1 cup salted roasted peanuts

Here’s what you do

1. determine out all your ingredients very first – this comes together quite quick – as well as pre-heat the oven to 175ºC. then grease as well as line a baking tin about 18cm x 28cm as well as at least 3cm deep. My pan was as well long, so I utilized blind-baking beads to shorten it – rather a balancing act.

2. Make the base by combining flour, sugar as well as coconut in a bowl. add the melted butter as well as stir up until well combined, then put the blend in the pan. Flatten it out by pressing with the back of a spoon.

3. Bake in the oven for about 8 minutes or up until the edges are golden brown. eliminate from the oven as well as set aside.

4. Make the filling by combining all the ingredients in a saucepan on a medium warm for about 3 minutes up until it’s darker golden as well as somewhat bubbling. thoroughly pour the filling over the base, smoothing it out to evenly cover the base.

5. put the pan back in the oven for about 3 minutes or up until the filling browns somewhat at the edges. Don’t overcook this part. eliminate from the oven as well as set to one side.

6. Make the topping by adding the sugar as well as syrup to the melted butter in a pan as well as stirring over a low-medium warm for about 5 minutes up until the sugar has dissolved as well as the sauce has thickened. This is implied to be a type of brittle, so make sure the sauce has cooked down properly.

7. add the peanuts then pour thoroughly into the baking tin, spreading the topping out evenly.

8. boost the oven to 180ºC as well as bake for a additionally 7-8 minutes up until the slice is bubbling around the edges. eliminate from the oven as well as enable to totally awesome in the pan.

9. Trim any type of uneven edges (baker’s tax) as well as slice into squares.

These babies are so rich, you can’t truly eat as well numerous in one go, so calorie-wise, it’s type of self-regulating. If you cut this carefully, you can get about 48-60 little bitesize squares out if this… or fewer much bigger ones!

We were cautious to share these salted caramel peanut slices with buddies to assist with our own stamina of will. I’d suggest you do the same!