DIY Twix

This little gem is the instagram that kickstarted my cooking!

Being me, I get like 30 likes max. Posting Twix got me like 80, and so it began. 

So, love it or hate it (its still an obsession) here they are.

This is actually a really cool thing to make.

And if u go to Brooklyn college and love Twix like me, you know the only place to get them is the vending machine in the basement of Boyln and thats a hassle. So bring your own! Take it as a gift. whatever. yum!

What You Need: 

For the cookie part: 

2 sticks of butter ( 1 cup) (room temp)

3/4 cup confection (powdered) sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 1/4 cup flour

1/2 teaspoon salt 

For the Caramel part: 

about 55 Werthers soft caramel candies

2 tablespoons milk

1/2 teaspoon salt

For the chocolate: 

A big bag of milk chocolate morsels

1) mix the confectioners sugar or whatever its called with the butter, till its nice and fluffy. 

2) Throw the egg in and beat it till its nice and combined

3) next goes the vanilla, more beating 

4) last but not least, flour and salt. mix it up till it forms a dough, like a sugarcookie dough (its shortbread). Put the dough in the fridge to get a little hard, like 10 minutes. 

5) Preheasd your oven to 300, with the rack in the MIDDLE. Cover a tray with parchment paper or tinfoil (doesnt need to be sprayed), and spread the dough out onto it. The width is bit tough to get, it should be like a little less then a quarter of an inch. 

6) Bake it for 30 minutes, rotating it in the oven after 15 minutes (put the back in the front and the front in the back. let it cook for like 10-15 minutes. 

7) While its baking, unwrap all the caramels, and add the 2 tablespoons milk and dash of salt to them in a bowl.

8) microwave the caramels for a minute at a time, mixing after each minute. 

9) Nuke em for like 2 minutes 30 seconds, till there retartdly yummy and caramelly <3333

Keep mixing it

10) After the shortbread has cooled for like 10 minutes pour the caramel on- cover all the cookie!!

11) This is the worst part- let it cool on the counter for another 10 minutes, then take the tinfoil (without the tray) and put it in the freezer to harder, about 40 minutes. 

12) Once its cooled, cut it into pieces, with a sharp knife. Whatever size you like is good.

13) Let it cool in the freezer, cut, for like another 20 mins, and then take it out.

14) Make a double boiler on your stove- put a medium saucepan with some water, and put a bowl on top of it - dont let the water touch the bowl.

15) Put the chocolote chips in and get the water to a boil, then bring the heat down.

16) The chocolate chips will start to melt. Stir them until they get melted and yummy

17) Put the Twix, one by one, and cover it in chocolate. 

18) Dip each one, and use whatever utensil you have that is like a fork- it needs to have slits. Take the Twix out (again, one by one), let the chocolate drip off, take off the excess, and put the twix on the side on tinfoil.

19) let them cool, and enjoy!!

20) If you have extra chocolate, give yourself a reward