Easy and healthy no make 3 ingredient caramel shortbread that is full of goodness. No dairy, no flour, no nuts, no oil in this simple recipe.

No one guesses this just has three ingredients from how great this chocolate caramel shortbread slice tastes. Even if someone isn’t into healthy eating they will probably like this nutrient-dense recipe!

One big tip is to only use enough chocolate to get a very thin coating of the caramel shortbread, as the date caramel is undoubtedly much softer so you can’t put too much pressure when cutting.

This vegan and simple millionaires shortbread can be made raw vegan if you use a bar of raw vegan chocolate. Or you can mix 1/3 cacao, sweetener and cacao butter or coconut butter to easily make your own raw chocolate.

Although the video makes it look a lot messier than this healthy caramel shortbread is! Half an hour out of the fridge and in the sunlight made it messier in my photos than it will for anyone creating it at home.

Usually after it has been in the fridge for a few hours it’s pretty firm, but still needs wrapping if it’s going in a lunchbox.

I love how easy to make my 3 ingredients healthy caramel shortbread is. The only downside is the date caramel can be a bit messy as it has added water.

You could always reduce the water once the date caramel is made by simmering on the hob, but this is more time consuming and washing up so I use it as it is.

Dates are great for a healthy caramel as they contain healthy fibre and the natural sugars are less likely to cause a sugar spike.

You can make healthy millionaires shortbread with raisins or other vine fruit if you prefer. I just used dates as over 80% of people polled preferred dates, although every time I make a recipe with dates people always ask what to use instead of dates.

I use a very high cacao content 90% chocolate to make this healthy millionaire shortbread. I do like the brands that are free of the Emulsifier Sunflower Lecithin. They apparently conch the chocolate for longer rather than add an emulsifier and I believe it gives a smoother taste.

Also a very high cocoa solids chocolate is good as it’s high in antioxidants and low in sugar. But use whatever chocolate you like to suit your tastes.

I’d quite like to make this caramel shortbread recipe with apricots instead for a brighter filling. Although bright orange apricots have been treated with sulfur to preserve this colour and organic apricots are more of a dark brown-orange colour.

I use gluten-free oats to make this millionaires shortbread gluten-free. The rolled oats you buy in the shops are already steam cooked and pressed so are fine to eat once blended.

Like all of my healthy vegan recipes think of this no-bake millionaires shortbread as the base recipe to add what you like to it.

Some examples of how to adapt this recipe

• Add salt to make salted caramel
• peanut or other nut butter to make a nutty caramel
• Use buckwheat instead of oats to be grain-free

Please do share in the comments below if you’ve adapted my healthy millionaires’ shortbread and how it turned out.

Date Free Healthy Caramel Shortbread

I usually make this with raisins at home as I always have some on hand and they aren’t quite as addictive as dates. It turns out more or less the same, but possibly not quite as tasty. This photo is real life when I make the recipe in 3 minutes with minimal care and attention.

Easy Chocolate Tempering

I always melt 3/4 of the chocolate, take off the heat then stir in the remaining 1/4 for easy chocolate tempering to get the glossy chocolate look and right snap.

Conching chocolate was invented in 1879 and is a process to grind chocolate over a long period of time so it’s totally smooth and not granular. This chocolate conching can take many days and manufacturers are secretive about their process.