Topic: Shortbread recipe urgently required

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Sounds good, wouldn't the rice flour be a bit strong though?

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Sorry, misread the amount of rice flour, thought it was 250g! Whoa

[Malc.]

I'm not sure about the rice flour and would be careful how you add the toffee. Perhaps you could use a caramel essence instead or with the vanilla especially as your using custard powder.

After thought, how can I squeeze some toffee liqueur in to the recipe, could I soak the pecans in it?

[Vindaloo-crazy]

Make the toffee from melted sugar with processed pecans?

[Malc.]

How about a variation of millionares shortbread, thick biscuit base with a thin layer of the caramel topped with chopped pecan. You could even finish that with a toffee glaze.

[chriswg]

I went for the recipe as per my previous post but I added some small chips of butterscotch to the mixture. Caramelizing the pecans was good fun but probably didn't add anything to the result. If anything it probably detracted from the lovely shortbread taste. I added them on mainly for the aesthetics and to show off. The judging is at 3pm, I'm not holding my breath!

[chriswg]

Crappy WI judge. Only 5 people entered, prizes for top 3, nothing for me!

Apparently the WI judges look for traditional looking shortbread rather than going by taste. Only the tiniest bit had been nibbled, no where near enough to be able to judge the actual taste - which was amazing by the way. She hadn't even tried the pecan. I guess thinking outside the box was a bad call in this case. It wouldn't have mattered if it was made out of sand as long as it looked traditional.

Anyway rant over. My Jalapenos picked up a 2nd prize in the 'any other' category. Narrowly losing out to some mini courgettes LOL.

[Malc.]

You gave it ya best shot, well done.