Hi all, been ages since I posted, often visit but to follow you all - but been feeling low of late and not wanting to depress any way this is something I make to please my sweettooth hubby

Coffee Chocolate Flan


7” pastry flan case or biscuit base

25g cornflour
2 tsp instant coffee
375 ml milk
100g sugar
25 g butter
2 tbsp cocoa


Blend cornflour, coffee and cocoa with little cold milk until smooth.

Bring rest of milk to boil and pour onto paste stirring all the time.

Pour mixture back into saucepan bring back to the boil stirring all the time.

When thick add the butter and sugar and beat until shiny.

Pour into pastry case and leave to set.

Sprinkle with grated chocolate or chopped nuts..


Gem

Chocolate toothpaste tart does come from Bedfordshire and doesn't have mint in it but I imagine it would be nice like that. We had it at school and its a favourite on fire stations. The "toothpaste" comes from the consistency, nothing else, and with imagination the sugar content can be reduced. It's definitely yummy.

Look what I found when sorting through some of mums old cookery books, it was on a scrap of paper being used as a book mark I assume !!

School Chocolate tart,
3oz margarine
6oz sugar
1oz instant hot chocolate powder
1oz cocoa powder
9oz dried milk powder
150ml warm water
Ready made pastry case


1
Cream together margarine and sugar until smooth.

2
Add hot chocolate powder and cocoa powder to the margarine/sugar mix and cream together well.

3
Mix dried milk powder and warm water together in a separate bowl until smooth.

4
Blend both mixes together very well until smooth and thick.

5
Pour into a ready made pastry case and put in the refrigerator until set.

Is this it ??????????

Gem

|Hi I come from Bedford and your chocolate toothpaste recipe is spot on, one of the school cooks wrote out the recipe for me when my children were growing up it has a swirl of cream on the top too.  also some of the cake shops used to sell it up to 10 years ago I do know, although I no longer live in Bedford my daughter does and we have it when I go to visit, in fact I cooked it today for my grown up son, !!!!  as a child we used to love it as did my children, although I do find it a bit sweet now.
thanks for bringing back good memories for me