Caramel Slice

Of course, a weekend away requires some sweets. Having of late purchased my kickoff tin forcefulness out of vegan, gluten-free caramel slice she made for the VegMel picnic was a show-stopper. (It was a tribute to a recipe previously made past times Johanna GGG; since together with therefore Johanna has returned the compliment together with made Steph's version!)

The solely tweak I attempted was cooking the base of operations a picayune less. Steph's piece was quite crunchy together with I prefer softer biscuit bases, myself. As it turned out, this piece sat inwards the refrigerator for a total calendar week earlier beingness eaten together with was coming dangerously or therefore sogginess past times then. So my novel theory is: bake for xv minutes if eating soon, xx minutes if eating days later.

No-one complained. This is a humdinger of a recipe, together with isn't compromised at all inwards the procedure of veganising together with deglutefying. It's something of an Aussie(/NZ/British) classic every bit is, but I'm kinda itching to test a crunchy peanut butter caramel version 1 day.

Caramel slice
(recipe from Vegan About Town,
adapted from Green Gourmet Giraffe)

base
1 loving cup dessicated coconut
1 loving cup dark-brown sugar
125g margarine
1 loving cup gluten-free flour

caramel
1 x 330g tin forcefulness out soy condensed milk
ii tablespoons golden syrup
30g margarine

topping
150g nighttime chocolate
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

Preheat an oven to 180°C. Line a small-ish baking tray amongst paper.

In a medium bowl, mix together the base of operations ingredients thoroughly. Gently press the mixture into the baking tray, smoothing over the summit every bit best y'all can. Bake the base of operations for xv minutes.

Place the caramel ingredients inwards a small-medium saucepan. Stir them together over medium oestrus for 10 minutes, until thickened (mine didn't actually modify coloring similar Steph's).

When the base of operations is done, spread the caramel over the summit of it together with bake the piece for a farther 10 minutes. Set it aside to cool a while.

When the piece is cool, gently melt together the topping ingredients together with spread them over the caramel. Refrigerate the piece until set. Give it a picayune land at room temperature earlier slicing into pocket-sized squares.