Fridge Fruit Cake Recipe

In a heat proof bowl over a pan of simmering water melt the chocolate butter and golden syrup.

Fridge fruit cake recipe.

It s a great alternative to baked fruit cakes and stays moist. Tastes very much like the claxton s fruitcakes that you can buy in the grocery store. My grandmother had pinned it to a card with her cost estimate to make. Leave extra cling film hanging over the sides.

This recipe is started in october or november so as to let it mellow before the holidays. Bash the biscuits into pieces using a rolling pin. I don t know. This is a recipe that my mom made every christmas.

It only takes 20 minutes to prepare before popping in the freezer making it a really quick and easy way to get your chocolate fix. This cake is a rich dark moist fruit cake very flavorful at christmas. And for another chewy marshmallow based recipe that is less dense try this quick cereal bars recipe. Try mary berry s honeycomb crunchies or one of nigella s many rocky roads.

Line a 9x5 inch loaf pan with foil or parchment paper and set aside. 8 ounces digestive biscuits or supermarket cookies of your choice. I remember very well my mother storing her fruit cake in an old butter churn that belonged to my grandmother and great grandmother. Chocolate fridge cake serve this intensely rich and indulgent chocolate fridge cake as a sophisticated teatime treat enhanced with juicy brandy soaked raisins and crunchy biscuit pieces.

I wanted to post this to save and found it as a newspaper clipping in my grandmother s recipe box. 10 ounces of dark chocolate. Or just mix up the best bits of the store cupboard with a. Fruit cake is the perfect gift for someone you like but don t really love so definitely give this refrigerator fruit cake a try.

Use cling film to line a 20cm 8in shallow square shaped tin. Chocolate fridge cake adapted from bbc food serves 8 12. 4 ounces of butter.