Mr Becca is not mad-keen on dessert, as a menu option. He prefers savoury food, and will almost invariably have a starter and then not always be hungry for a dessert after his main course. He likes them super-sweet so doesn't like dark chocolate with anything, because it's too bitter. Every once in a while I make something that by chance he loves, but that I can't eat because it's too sweet.
I remember once, long ago, we went out for a meal on my work (I won the meal as a reward for getting a customer satisfaction survery score of 100%) and he wasn't hungry enough for a dessert so we ordered two anyway. For me.
Anyway, this year for his birthday I didn't want to make a cake ( like last year's butterscotch one, or the butterscotch one of the year before) a) because I wasn't confident I could find yet another butterscotch cake recipe that he'd like and b) because, quite honestly, he simply wouldn't eat a whole cake and thus make it worthwhile. But then I remembered how much he likes Millionaire's Shortbread, and that I'd never made it successfully. For those of you who don't know, or who know it by a different name, it's a 3 layer traybake of shortbread on the base, caramel in the middle and chocolate on the top. I had made this once before, years ago, and not lined the tin. I maintain that the recipe never told me to, but who knows now? Suffice it to say, I definitely lined the tray this time.
Phew, it did!!!
I'm very happy to report that he loved it - the way it looked and the fact that I'd made it for him instead of a cake. And the taste?
Well, it was rich and caramelly and crumbly and chocolatey. How do you think that would taste?! It was absolutely delicious! But for future reference, he felt the chocolate layer was too thick, and I felt the base layer was too crumbly. So I'll try it again at some stage, but with a different recipe. Happy Birthday Darling!
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