Tiffin!

As many may know, I love baking! I love making pretty cupcakes and even use to sell them before I started university. I find it very therapeutic baking anything and making them pretty! I also love Pinterest for having SO many recipes, the only problem is they are pretty much all American, using American measurements and American ingredients. After spending many hours whilst baking flicking from measurement conversion charts and Google trying to find alternative ingredients that we have here in the UK, I decided I will write a post or two of my favourite recipes suited to a British Baker!

So today's recipe is Tiffin! Which is a fridge tray 'cake' covered in chocolate.

Ingredients:

10.5oz/300g Milk Chocolate (a mix of white chocolate and milk is the best)

8oz/225g Rich Tea Biscuits

4oz/110g Butter/Margarine (I generally use margarine personally)

2 tbsp Golden Syrup

2 tbsp Caster/Granulated Sugar

4 tsp Cocoa Powder

1 handful of raisins (optional, or could add marshmellows for a rocky road type cake or nuts etc. the possibilities are endless...)

Method:

1. In a pan melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup and cocoa powder together, stirring to make sure it doesn't burn, don't allow to boil.

2. Crush up the biscuits, they can range in size but you don't want any bigger than a 5p piece roughly or you'll get gaps in the base.

3. Add the crushed biscuits and the raisins to the melted mixture (if you have extra sauce add a biscuit or 2 more to make it a bit stiffer).

4. Spoon mixture into a 9x9 inch pan and press down firmly until evenly spread in the pan and flat. (You can add grease proof paper to be able to take it out of the pan just for convenience, but it doesn't need greasing)

Something like this...

5. Melt the milk chocolate and pour over the mixture. If using a combination of white chocolate too, pour in horizontal lines of white chocolate down the milk chocolate, then using a cocktail stick or something of that shape 'draw' vertical lines down the chocolate, causing a pattern to form.

6. Place in the fridge to set for an hour then cut into pieces.

7. Then enjoy!  

I might do another recipe post soon as we have our baby shower/leaving party next week that I'm going to be doing lots of baking for! :D