Name: Millionaire’s Shortbread
Yield: Makes 8 Portions
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 x 400 g (14 oz) tin condensed milk; 85 g (3 oz) caster sugar; 200 g (7 oz) plain or milk chocolate; 170 g (6 oz) butter, softened; 250 g (9 oz) plain flour

Preparation info

Makes
8
Portions

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Gary Maclean's Scottish Kitchen

By Gary Maclean

Published 2022

About

Don’t you just love the name millionaire’s shortbread? Growing up, I always saw this as a real treat. I understood the name to mean it was so lavish and luxurious and such an upgrade from regular shortbread that you would need to be a millionaire to buy it. Apparently, it’s because it is so rich!

Ingredients

For the shortbread

250 g (9 oz) plain flour
170 g (6

Method

For the shortbread

Heat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Lightly grease and line a 20 x 20cm (8 x 8in) square baking tin with a lip of at least 3cm (1¼in).
To make the shortbread, mix the flour and caster sugar in a bowl. Rub in the softened butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Knead the mixture together