Valentines Millionaire Bars
These Valentines Millionaire Bars taste like a million bucks. A shortbread cookie base is topped with caramel, white chocolate, red and pink candy swirls, and sprinkles.
If you love making sweet treats for the sweet people in your life during the Valentines season, then these bars are perfect for you. They’re easy to make, so sweet, and have a great Valentines look.
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❤️ Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- It only uses a few simple ingredients.
- It’s easy to make.
- It’s so tasty and so pretty!
🛒Ingredients
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These bars only take a few simple ingredients to make. You’ll find everything you need easily at your local grocery store. The major ingredients are below, but you’ll find the complete list along with quantities in the recipe card at the end of the post.
- Caramel squares
- White almond bark or melting chocolate
- Red melting chocolate
- Pink melting chocolate
- Valentines sprinkles
See the recipe card below for quantities.
🔪 How to Make Valentines Millionaire Bars
This recipe only takes a few simple steps to make. It’s mostly a little melting and layering after you make the easy shortbread crust.
Step 1: Prep
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and spray it lightly with nonstick spray.
Step 2: Make the Shortbread Dough
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy in a medium bowl. Then, add the flour and vanilla, mixing until just combined and crumbly.
Step 3: Bake
Gently press the mixture into the bottom of the pan in an even layer. Then, prick it all over with a fork and bake for 30 minutes until lightly golden. Set aside to cool.
Step 4: Make the Caramel Layer
Melt the caramels and cream in a small pot over medium-low heat until melted and smooth. Then, pour it over the shortbread and set aside.
Step 5: Melt the Chocolate
Place each color of melting chocolate in separate bowls. Melt them in the microwave in 30-second intervals until smooth and melted.
Step 6: Finish the Bars
Pour the white chocolate over the caramel and spread it out evenly. Finally, add little dollops of red and pink chocolate over the white and use a knife to gently swirl them together. Immediately sprinkle with the Valentines sprinkles.
Step 7: Chill
Place in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes to cool. Then, slice it into 24 pieces and enjoy!
📝Variations
Do you want to change up this recipe and make it your own? Here are some ways that you can do that!
- Melting Chocolate – You can use melting chocolate or almond bark for this recipe.
- Chocolate Chips – Try adding chocolate chips to the shortbread crust for a fun twist.
- White Chocolate – Use regular chocolate in place of white chocolate.
If you love this recipe, then you’ll want to check out our salted caramel chocolate bars.
🥄 Equipment
- Measuring cups
- Microwaveable bowls
- Mixing bowl
- Spoon
- Baking dish
- Parchment paper
🥫 Storage
Store these in the refrigerator in an air-tight container for up to 2 weeks. For longer storage, place the bars in single layers separated by parchment paper in an air-tight, freezer-safe container and freeze for up to 3 months.
💭 Tips
- Be sure you don’t drag the knife through the caramel layer when swirling the chocolate.
- Wrapped caramels are the best for this recipe because they make the perfect consistency.
- Your shortbread dough will be crumbly before baking. That’s okay!
⁉️ FAQ
Do you have questions about this recipe? Here are the answers to the most commonly asked questions.
They’re a dessert bar made of a shortbread base topped with caramel and chocolate layers.
It gets its name because the shortbread, caramel, and chocolate combine to make a very rich dessert bar.
It’s a traditional Scottish cookie made with one part sugar, two parts butter, and three to four parts flour. It’s a sweet, dry, crumbly cookie.
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🧾Recipe Card
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Valentines Millionaire Bars
Equipment
- Measuring cups
- Microwaveable bowls
- Mixing Bowl
- Spoon
- Baking dish
- parchment paper
Ingredients
- 1 cup salted butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 22 ounces caramel squares
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 12 ounces white almond bark or white melting chocolate
- 1 cup red melting chocolate
- 1 cup pink melting chocolate
- Valentines sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Line a 9×13 pan with parchment paper and lightly spray with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- To that add the flour and vanilla and mix until just combined, it will be crumbly.
- Gently press the shortbread mix in an even layer on the bottom of the pan.
- Prick all over with a fork.
- Bake for 30 minutes until lightly golden.
- Remove from oven and let cool while you prepare the caramel.
- In a small pot over medium-low heat, stir caramels together with the cream until all melted and no lumps remain.
- Pour the caramel over the shortbread layer. Set aside.
- For the chocolate layer place each color of melting chocolate in a separate bowl.
- Microwave each color in 30 second intervals until smooth and melted.
- Pour the white chocolate over the caramel and spread out.
- Add little dollops of the red and pink over the white chocolate.
- Using a knife gently swirl the red and pink into the white. Make sure you do not drag your knife through the caramel layer.
- Immediately sprinkle with the Valentines sprinkles and place in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes until completely cool.
- Slice into 24 pieces and serve!
