Here is a fun, quick recipe that is easy for kids to make. You can keep it plain or add in all sorts of goodies. It’s a fabulous sort of recipe that every mother should have up her sleeve… and it doesn’t require baking! Warming, but no baking! Here is what you are aiming for:
Also it’s one of those recipes where less is more. The more you make the more you eat – really don’t make a whole lot. It may well be the death of you. Easy to remember, just 4 ingredients – all 100g. Except the syrup and 1 tablespoon of that will do.
Let’s Meet The Players:
Basic ingredients:
- 100 g butter
- 100 g good quality chocolate
- 100 g marie biscuits (you may call them tea biscuits on the far side of the world)
- 1 tablespoon syrup.
Add-ins:
These are fine to have plain. If you want to add in then I just keep adding 100g of everything! Not too much to mention…
I used glace cherries and mini-marshmallows but you can add dried fruit, nuts and raisins – all to very good effect!
Let’s play the game:
Step 1: Start with the biscuits… Pop them in a tea towel and bash them like crazy until you have biscuit crumbs.
Step 2: Organize your add-ins, chop them up a bit smaller and so on…
Step 3: Pop your chocolate, butter and syrup together into a pot.
Step 4: Gently warm the ingredients in the pot. The aim is to slowly melt them to together not to boil or even slightly bubble them.
Step 5: Take your pot off the hotplate and add in your bashed up biscuits. Mix them in and coat them thoroughly.
Step 6: If you are adding in extras then now is the time.
We added in chopped-cherries:
And baby marshmallows:
Step 7: Generously grease a baking pan… I used a bread pan. And pour your mixture into it. Spread it out and leave it in the fridge for a couple of hours to set.
Hopefully when you get back to check on it it won’t half be gone – AHEM! Cut it into chunks and only if you are very generous hearted offer it to anyone else!
Bon Apetito!
23 responses so far ↓
1 Olivia // May 20, 2009 at 11:58 am
Ooh, sounds good! I can’t wait to try this.
2 se7en // May 20, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Hi O… Really these are worth a try if you have never tried them before!
3 Helen // May 20, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I have no self control when these are in the house!
4 se7en // May 20, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Hay H, I have only just rediscovered them – how could I have forgotten them!!! Frankly I think I should quietly re-forget them!
5 S // May 21, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Looks so easy and DELICIOUS! Keep the recipes coming please. I love easy ones – time is always short!
6 se7en // May 21, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Hi S, You may not forgive me for posting these!!!
7 Katie Rae // Jun 15, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I tried these over the weekend. My cave guy does all the shopping, but he had the flu. A simple trip for jello for the sick man turned into a grocery shopping spree- I couldn’t help myself! So with my diminished baking supplies freshened up I had pecans, choco chips, coconut, and cherries for add-ins!!! I forgot the tea biscuits though. But I figured a cookie is a biscuit is a cracker, right?? so I used saltines and it was yummy. I’m glad I took your advice and made only a tiny tiny bit- I ate it all. I didn’t even tell the kids. hehe.
8 se7en // Jun 16, 2009 at 12:19 am
Hi K-R – I am laughing out loud… I warned you! And I can’t believe you did that!!!
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10 Debbie // Jun 6, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Yum!!! We walked to the shops to buy the ingredients so I could feel better about us eating it all later. And great to be able to involve little kids without worrying about hot ovens.
11 se7en // Jun 6, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Hay D, Glad you got that walk in!!! Hope you had lots of yummy fun!!! Have a good week!!!
12 Maham Bano // Sep 1, 2010 at 5:32 pm
hey, um i live in pakistan, and i wanted to know what the syrup is =/
13 se7en // Sep 1, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Hi Maham Bano, Locally we have syrup called Golden Syrup – which is a sugar based syrup similar to honey. I have used honey in this recipe and it worked and I have used maple syrup as well… Hope that helps!!! Enjoy!!!
14 Maham Bano // Sep 2, 2010 at 12:30 pm
and another question, what if i use oreos instead of marie biscuits?
will it effect the cake in any way?
15 se7en // Sep 2, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Hay Maham Bano… I am sure you can use any biscuits you like!!! Let me know how they turn out!!!
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17 J // Nov 5, 2010 at 10:12 am
I have made this cake so many times in the last 2 weeks, so yum, so easy, and so child friendly. I thought i would share a kiwi recipe with you which is just as easy to make and you and your family might enjoy.
http://instinctivemothering.com/lolly_cake
18 se7en // Nov 5, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Hi J, So glad you are enjoying it!!! Thanks for the link and have a fun weekend!!!
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