The other day council decided to paint my street. And I don't mean they painted lines, or resurfaced. They literally painted the whole road a blacker shade of black. Questionable use of ratepayers money aside, this also meant my street was closed off for about five hours, and I had no food in the house.
I did however have the basics of food, and managed to muster up the ingredients to make a chocolate caramel slice, which is something I've never made before.
This recipe came from Epicure Chocolate, and what I like about it is that the caramel wasn't made on the stovetop, as it is in most caramel slice recipes. Instead you bake the base, then combine the caramel ingredients, pour them on top and bake in the oven until it goes all brown and gooey.
Thoughts - I had no copha, so I ended up using butter in the chocolate topping. This meant there was butter in all three layers, which made the overall flavour very buttery. Also due to the caramel being baked it went very hard around the edges, a bit like a Scottish Tablet. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Overall I was happy with it, though next time I might ditch the butter/copha in the chocolate layer and just use straight up chocolate.
