- prep: 40 min
- cook: 3 hr
- total: 3 hr 40 min
Summary
When a good ol' American candy bar veers French, it becomes a decadent dessert. Buttery pat-in-pan shortbread takes the place of mass-produced cookies and gets smothered with silken chocolate and from-scratch caramel, rich with fresh cream.
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 pound milk, semisweet, and/or bittersweet chocolate (preferably 40–60% cacao), chopped
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon coconut or other neutral vegetable oil
- A candy thermometer
Instructions
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Nutrition
Nutritional Info

- Servings Per Recipe: 20
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 385 % Daily Value *
- Total Fat: 25 g 38.37%
- Saturated Fat: 15 g 75.9%
- Trans Fat: 1 g %
- Cholesterol: 45 mg 14.86%
- Sodium: 140 mg 5.85%
- Calcium: 14 mg 1.45%
- Potassium: 29 mg 0.83%
- Magnesium: 0 mg 0%
- Iron: 1 mg 3.27%
- Zinc: 0 mg 0%
- Total Carbohydrate: 32 g %
- Dietary Fiber: 1 g 4.27%
- Sugar: 22 g
- Protein: 3 g
- Alcohol: 0 g
- Omega 3 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Omega 6 Fatty Acid: 0 g
- Vitamin A 10.63%
- Vitamin C 0.12%
- Vitamin D 1.91%
- * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Diabetes Exchanges
- Exchange - Fat5
- Exchange - Fruit0
- Exchange - NonFat Milk0
- Exchange - Other Carbs1
- Exchange - Starch1
- Exchange - Vegetables0
- Exchange - Lean Meat0
- Exchange - Alcohol0
MyPlate Info
- MyPlate - Grain Total1 oz-eq
- MyPlate - Vegetable Total0 c
- MyPlate - Fruit0 c
- MyPlate - Dairy0 c
- MyPlate - Protein Total0 oz-eq