Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Squares – TWIX Bars

These Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Squares are otherwise known as TWIX bars. They are shortbread squares generously coated in rich caramel and topped with milk chocolate. No sugar thermometer needed for this recipe!

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TWIX Bars Recipe

Do you fancy a little milk chocolate? How about sweet caramel? What about shortbread? How about we get all three of these sweet ingredients up and put them together?

Yes? Then welcome to the world of Chocolate Caramel Shortbread Squares. Or maybe you know them better as Twix Bars instead?

Whatever their name, they’re yummo!

These really are just heaven on a plate. And just to get those tastebuds tingling, these are packed with sweet crumbly shortbread as a base stuffed with a large helping of rich golden caramel, and topped with silky Cadbury’s milk chocolate.

I also jazzed them up with a sprinkling of edible glitter too. Sparkly!

Now, you’re probably sat there thinking ‘Twix’ and let me tell you, so was I after I created these.

But these are oh so much more better than a Twix bar or two!

First of all and most importantly, home made is clearly better. You know exactly what is in home-made. No preservatives, additives or those pesky E numbers!

And these chocolate caramel shortbread squares (Twix Bars) will keep for quite some time. I made these last week and they’re still good and will be for a while. Happy days (not that they will last that long!)

I certainly admit that a Twix bar or 10 (hehe) taste nice but in my honest opinion, these taste so much better.

The buttery shortbread texture crumbles and spreads around in your mouth more so than the biscuit in a Twix.

And as your typical Brit, they’re served perfectly with a cup of tea. I love my tea super-duper strong. I do not do coffee at all!

I’ve kept it quiet until now but my birthday is upcoming shortly – this Thursday the 24th May – I shall be 31. Although, I’m going to stick to 29 with 2 years experience. I prefer that one.

I won’t be making myself a cake. Is it just me that thinks it’s weird to make your own birthday cake? To me, I think it’s up to your loved ones to actually use their brains and either take the initiative to make and bake a cake (although I’m sure I wouldn’t have a kitchen to come home to after, eeps!) Or actually go out to the shops and buy a cake. It’s not hard to tell by now that I have a sweet tooth and like cakes now is it? Heh.

Before I leave you to sprint off to your kitchens to go make/bake these chocolate caramel shortbread squares, I wanted to share with you a sweet find..

Aren’t these the most awesome tea spoons ever? If you’re in the UK, they can be found at Matalan for £6 for the set, making them £1.50 each ($2.50). Would you pay £1.50 each for a spoon? They’re just too darn cute, I had to buy them. If you enlarge the photo, you can see that they make the cake textured on it too. I’m a sucker for details!

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