caramel shorties w/sea salt - Lisi's Kitchen

Ingredients

• 2 sticks (8oz) unsalted butter, room temp
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
• 1/4 cup dark brown sugar, packed
• 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
• 3/4 of the dough into the prepared pan (set aside last quarter of dough)
• 1/4 cup flour to the remaining 1/4 cup dough and gently incorporate flour and break the dough into small crumbs. Add 1/2 cup of slivered almonds (optional)
• butter, corn syrup brown sugar, and condensed milk
• fine sea salt