If you have kids – and even if you don’t – Easter tends to be a time of unbridled chocolate eating, sugar rushes and sticky fingers. So you may as well go the whole hog and make this indulgent tiffin.
It’s a no-bake fridge cake. Smaller children will enjoy bashing biscuits, weighing ingredients and decorating what is a quick and easy treat. Older kids can, subject to parental approval and supervision, be let loose on the chopping and mixing.
If you don’t want to make it before Easter, this is a great way to use up any leftover chocolate afterwards. (Ha ha, as if.) And if your house is a child-free zone, rejoice! You can scoff the whole thing yourself.
I like my tiffin to have a bit of chew and heft but this is a template you can adapt. Swap the fruits and nuts to your personal favourites (of course the nuts can be omitted if you have an allergy), increase the amount of milk chocolate compared to dark or vice versa. Just try to keep the ratios of fruit and crunch to chocolate more or less the same.
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Easter Tiffin
Ingredients:
150g good quality plain chocolate
150g good quality milk chocolate
100g butter
1 heaped tbs golden syrup
100g raisins
75g pistachio nuts (or the nuts of your choice), roughly chopped
150g dried apricots, chopped (and/or glace cherries or preserved ginger)
80g Maltesers
200g digestive biscuits
80g chocolate mini eggs
Optional: edible sprinkles
Method:
Line a 20cm x 20cm brownie tin with baking paper – use a dab of butter at the corners to stick it down.
Break the dark and milk chocolate into in a heatproof bowl, add the butter and golden syrup and put the bowl over a pan of simmering water, being careful the bottom doesn’t touch the water. Melt it all together, stirring occasionally.
Put the dried fruit, nuts and Maltesers in a large bowl. Seal the biscuits in a bag and bash gently with a rolling pin until broken into a mix of bite-sized pieces and smaller crumbs. Add them to the mixing bowl.
Once the chocolate has melted, allow it to cool slightly then pour it over the dry ingredients and stir well to coat. Press into the lined brownie tin with a wooden spoon, pushing it into the corners, and level as best you can.
Scatter the mini eggs over the top, breaking a few in half if you like, and press them down gently so they adhere. Add the sprinkles, if using. Leave to set in the fridge for at least four hours before cutting into small squares.
I’d have said this was a calorie-fest too far, but on reading the recipe … I feel one ought to try it 😉 Happy Easter, when it arrives! x
Thanks, Margaret, you too. I generally eat this in very small squares and I have to admit I gave the bulk of it to our neighbour’s children. My husband thinks it’s too much of a good thing but then one side of his family came from Quaker stock. 🙂
Erm, weren’t all The Chocolate People Quakers?
Ah. Yes. Good point, well made. 😀
If I share this with the Easter Bunny it will put a skip in his step!
He’ll be bouncing like the Duracell bunny! 😀
Good luck with the “revamping” and have a Happy Easter.
Thanks very much, Chip, you too. Lx
Yum! These sound very much like the chocolate “salami” that Italians make around Christmas time. Only with fruits and nuts, which sounds lovely. Have a wonderful Easter.
Not dissimilar! Happy Easter to you too, Frank.
i do like a no bake ‘cake’ like this. so simple and tasty. and chocolate…
So easy to make. So many calories …. 😀