Name: Simply stunning chocolate fridge cake
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 200g bar dark chocolate broken into chunks; 700ml double cream; 5 boxes good milk chocolate biscuits 48 biscuits in total, or to make your own see tip, below; 400g mascarpone; 5 tbsp Irish cream; 5 tbsp icing sugar sifted

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Simply stunning chocolate fridge cake

Simply stunning chocolate fridge cake

Sarah Cook

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Serves 10 - 12

Easy

Prep: 35 mins

Cook: 10 mins

plus overnight chilling

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The beauty of this pudding is the simplicity of the ingredients, put together stylishly. Use chocolate biscuits and an Irish cream mascarpone filling

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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200g bar dark chocolate

broken into chunks
700ml double cream
5 boxes good milk chocolate biscuits

48 biscuits in total, or to make your own see tip, below
400g mascarpone
5 tbsp Irish cream
5 tbsp icing sugar

sifted

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal858
fat62g
saturates39g
carbs63g
sugars40g
fibre4g
protein8g
salt0.7g

Method

step 1

Melt the chocolate and 150ml of the cream together in a small pan. Cool until spreadable, then use to sandwich pairs of the cookies together.
step 2

Choose a cake stand or flat plate to assemble your cake. Tip the remaining cream, the mascarpone, Irish cream and icing sugar into a big bowl, and use an electric hand whisk to beat until thick and the mixture is just holding its shape.
step 3

Arrange some of your cookie sandwiches to make a base that almost covers the plate. Dot a little of the cream under each, and stick into position. Spread or dollop over a good layer of cream, then add another layer of cookies, a little smaller than the first. To get a neat finish, choose a front to your cake – and always start by arranging the outside ring of cookies from there (then you can snap cookies in half to fill in the middle). Repeat, making the layers smaller each time, until you finish with a single cookie and a dollop of cream on top! Chill in the fridge overnight.

RECIPE TIPS

MAKE YOUR OWN COOKIES

Mix 250g plain flour, 300g golden caster sugar, 100g cocoa powder and half tsp salt in a bowl. Gently melt 100g dark chocolate and 100g butter together, then stir into the dry ingredients, followed by 2 large beaten eggs. Add chocolate chips if you wish, then space heaped tbsps of the mixture onto parchment-lined baking trays and bake at 180C/160C fan/gas 4 for 12-15 mins. Makes 48 cookies – enough for the pud.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2013

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