They Call Me Caramelo

1 August 2011 - Keely's Show Winning Caramel Slice

I finally saw Keely last weekend and was able to get some recipes off her. Although I don't really eat much dessert I was super excited to have some 'show winning' recipes from a real life Kiama Show Girl (contestant)! So I was ready to attempt my second version of Caramel Slice - Keely's Show Winning Caramel Slice.

Conveniently, I had all the ingredients for this one, bar the condensed milk, so I sent Sian to the shops to get that while I got a massage (now writing it I realise I should have felt like some weird upper-class snob having people pamper me and do my shopping, but I actually felt really good about it at the time).

After a dinner of leftovers (Sian had PJ's burgers which she gave a big thumbs up) I got started on cooking my slice. Sian complained about everything, the cold, the music, the fact that she ate too much condensed milk and felt sick... everything! We soon started gossiping about everyone we know and we were much happier for it!

It all seemed pretty easy. I was kind of rough with my measurements as usual, but everything appeared to go to plan. After each stage it needed 15 minutes in the oven so in these blocks of time Sian and I sat down to play Yahtzee. The chocolate was slightly disastrous as the bowl was too hot to hold, so I was pouring it while holding the bowl in a tea towel. The tea towel then dragged in the chocolate I'd already poured. It was not my most coordinated effort ever! Needless to say both my pyjama top and the tea towel were covered in food and had to be thrown into the wash (not before I misplaced the hand towel and instead used my pyjama top for a replacement).

Anyway, it was all ok. I couldn't find my slice tin (potentially never had one) so cooked it in other dishes instead. It didn't make much difference, except that it was kind of hard to get out at the end. I of course took it to work and everyone scoffed it in seconds! What pigs! I got lots of compliments on it (partly because I asked for them, but also because it was delicious) and everyone seemed happy.

For my comparison of the two Caramel Slices, I was going to say this one wins out! However, I just looked at the recipes and they're almost identical, apart from about 20 grams of butter and 5 minutes in the oven. I think the reasons I liked this one better are as follows:

1. I forgot what the other one tasted like

2. Last time I cooked it in Mum and Dad’s oven and I think the caramel overcooked (although that recipe has it cooking 5 minutes less so I'm not sure how that works)

3. People at work will eat anything I bring them so their compliments made me think it was better than it was.

Tips: Don’t play Yahtzee with Sian, she's annoyingly good at it.

Music: Gotye (was totes uninspiring and boring)