Billionaire’s Lemon Shortbread

Name: Billionaire’s Lemon Shortbread
Yield: Makes about 20 fingers
Ingredients: Edible gold leaf, to decorate (optional); 150 g good quality dark chocolate; 1 quantity Salted Lemon Caramel; Scant ½ tsp baking powder; 160 g plain flour, plus extra for dusting; 1 medium egg, beaten; 40 g ground almonds; 1 tsp Ndali pure vanilla extract; 100 g soft light brown sugar; 1 g Fleur de Sel salt (we use Halen Môn from Anglesey); 130 g softened unsalted butter, diced, plus extra for greasing

Preparation info

Makes about
20
fingers

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Rococo

By Chantal Coady

Published 2012

About

Millionaire’s shortbread is a bit ordinary, and often made with industrial milk chocolate. This is a really high calibre version, made with Salted Lemon Caramel. If you want to gild the lily, decorate the top with edible gold leaf.

Ingredients

130 g softened unsalted butter, diced, plus extra for greasing
1 g Fleur de Sel salt (we use Halen Môn from Anglesey)

Confectionery
Vegetarian

Method

Place the butter, salt, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until light and fluffy. Stir in the ground almonds followed by the egg. Sift in the flour with the baking powder, mix until just combined and knead lightly on a clean work surface. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and chill for a few hours, or overnight.

Preheat the oven to