Recipe: Shortbread Peanut Butter Squares
Challenge yourself with a technical bake from Junior Bake Off and have a go at making these delicious Shortbread Peanut Butter Squares.
What are shortbread peanut butter squares?
When you combine chocolatey goodness with flaky biscuit and a gooey middle... you get these shortbread peanut butter sqaures! Junior Bake Off presents this delicious treat that's super easy to make at home with the recipe below.
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Note: An adult must be present to supervise and help with preparation. This recipe contains PEANUTS
Ingredients:
100g salted butter
50g caster sugar
150g plain flour
450g roasted & salted peanuts
4 tbsp honey + 2 tbsp for layers
2 tbsp peanut oil
180g dark chocolate
20g butter
Method:
Preheat oven to 170C.
Line and grease an 8" square brownie tin.
Place butter, sugar and flour in a food processor until it all comes together to make your shortbread mixture.
Press the shortbread mixture into the tin, using a mini cranked palette knife to make sure it is smooth and even.
Cook for 20 mins, until golden in colour. Remove shortbread from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes, before placing the whole tin in the fridge.
Meanwhile make the peanut butter by placing the peanuts in a food processor with the peanut oil and honey and whizzing until it looks like peanut butter.
Break up chocolate and butter and place in a bowl on a saucepan of simmering water and carefully stir until the mixture has melted and has no lumps. Then remove from heat.
Remove the tin from the fridge and paint a layer of honey onto shortbread to act like glue, then put the peanut butter on top as the next layer.
Pour the melted chocolate mixture on top of the peanut butter layer.
Place tin in fridge/freezer until set.
Remove peanut butter short bread from tin and divide into 9 equal portions.
