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Chocolate fridge cake with pecan and meringues © David Loftus
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Jamie Oliver Seed & String Box
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chocolate fridge cake with pecan and meringues

dessert recipes | serves 16
This chocolate cake is wicked! And even better, you don't need to do any baking.

Break the biscuits into small pieces directly into a large bowl. Add the pecans, pistachio nuts and cherries and mix together. Put the rest of the ingredients into a separate, heatproof bowl and put on a low heat over a pan of simmering water until the butter and chocolate have melted.

Combine the biscuit mix with the chocolate mixture. Line a 30 x 20 cm plastic container with clingfilm, leaving plenty of extra film at the edges to help turn the cake out later. Whack everything into the container, place in the fridge to firm up then turn out and cut into chunky slices.

This cake can be kept in an airtight container for a few days, and it actually improves in flavour!
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ingredients

• 200g digestive biscuits
• 110g whole pecans, roughly chopped
• 110g pistachio nuts, peeled
• 10 glace cherries
• 2 ready-made meringue nests, smashed up
• 150g unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 200g dark chocolate

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47 comments
1. ylenia peresso Wed 23 Sep 2009 @ 15:21 hi anyone could tell me how much grams are needed for the meringue nests because the ones i bought are walkers in a tub and the nests are quite small.

thanks from gozo, malta.

love these recipes :)
2. Leila Thu 23 Jul 2009 @ 18:36 I tried this for the first time today, though I bought Mammoth Pecans and I never cut them and the are poking out everywhere!!
3. Ash Fri 26 Jun 2009 @ 14:40 I followed the recipe exactly but for some reason there was way too much biscuits/nuts compared to nowhere near enough chocolate sauce when I mixed the two bowlfuls together...
4. tintifax Mon 08 Jun 2009 @ 15:51 what can I use instead of golden syrup? I don't think that's available in austria...would honey work?
5. chloe tsang Fri 15 May 2009 @ 20:20 i might make it at my sleepover!
6. Erika/Germany Wed 29 Apr 2009 @ 16:29 ich habe alles reingetan, was nicht bei DREI auf dem Baum ist:
pecans, cashews, pistzien, einige halbierte Paranüsse, kandierte kirschen, kandierten Ingwer/Papaya/Ananas, getrocknete Cranberries, zerdrückte Baisers, Keksstücke, in die Schokoladenbutter einen ordentlichen Schuss Rum, alles vermischt + fest in die Form gedrückt, gekühlt + 5 Tage stehen lassen =
ein Gedicht ! *schmatz*
7. Eliza Sat 25 Apr 2009 @ 15:24 We make this in Romania, but we roll it into a round shape and call it "biscuit salamy". This seems to have a lot more flavor than ours, though, i can't wait to try it. Much love@Jamie, the best chef ever!!!
8. Andrea Fri 24 Apr 2009 @ 12:44 In Germany this cake is called "Kalter Hund" (= "cold dog" - go figure!) and there are lots of variations.
None I tried is as yummy as this one though. ;)
9. Moty Thu 23 Apr 2009 @ 10:02 Wow!
I become very popular at my work! pepole are in love with that cake!!
Tahnks Jamie!
10. Abigail Fri 10 Apr 2009 @ 13:56 I love fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
11. Tamsin Sun 01 Feb 2009 @ 18:04 What a fab recipe, so easy and delicious, I decided to press it into a larger shallow dish, seeing as some comments said it was hard to cut, worked a treat - easy to slice.
12. KrystynaCooksInSydney Sun 11 Jan 2009 @ 06:39 Hi this is for jlodell12 Comment #18 posted 08 January 2008
What would I use for a digestive biscuit in USA ? Try GRAHAM CRACKERS Having lived in New York USA for 7 years & learning my cooking skills there when I came back to Sydney Australia, I had a lot of hassles (trouble) trying to find substitutes but YES it would be GRAHAM CRACKERS & for ginger nut biscuits try VANILLA (NILA) WAFERS when a recipe calls for a sweet biscuit to crush up I hope that was helpful for you, regards Krystyna
13. Jennifer CG Wed 31 Dec 2008 @ 11:39 I use this recipe to top up my tan. It's nice to eat but any leftovers can easily be smeared over the face and tops up the tan nicely!
14. Bloody-minded Tue 30 Dec 2008 @ 10:39 This dessert is incredible! And you too)))) love u
15. Harry Hill, Bill Bailey, Lee Evans, Michael Mcintyre Fans Mon 15 Dec 2008 @ 15:15 Hello (:
this recipe is baree mint man
"womanizer"
great recipe :D
loves.x
16. sysueit oliver dirnt Thu 27 Nov 2008 @ 09:43 verry good dessert,
17. Keeley- Hotjobs Tue 11 Nov 2008 @ 15:38 I think it looks pretty! and it sounds absolutley incredible! I love fruit in chocolate!
Any recipes on chocloate jaffa cakes!? i would be very interested in that?x
18. Rohroh Sat 18 Oct 2008 @ 02:31 My son Harry (10) and I made this last night - his choice of Jamie recipes! We found it impossible to slice but that didn't stop it tasting GREAT!

Thought we might crumble half of the biscuits quite finely and that might make it stay in slice?

Harry brought some into school today and passed it round his table - had cookery today and asked teacher if he could 'pass it on' !!!
19. firdaus Thu 16 Oct 2008 @ 08:57 ...hey chef..how are you..?
....i hope u doing great...
..i from malaysia..
..i love 2 cook...
..butt not as are professional..
20. Andrea Mon 13 Oct 2008 @ 12:42 I am an Aussie, cooking this tonight in Tanzania for an Irish lady's birthday. She doesn't have an oven. I'm sure she'll love it. My Jamie OIiver recipe books are in Australia. I miss them!
21. Alex Tue 23 Sep 2008 @ 18:05 Hi Jamie! Thanks that you are:) I have all your books. From Russia with love:)
22. olga Tue 01 Jul 2008 @ 20:43 digestives are not graham crackers, in canada they are 2 different biscuits
23. eggserlent Thu 12 Jun 2008 @ 13:41 Looks nice... taste likes shit...

DIPESH
24. Lou Thu 22 May 2008 @ 09:28 This is scrummy. They are very good.
25. Sista Wed 30 Apr 2008 @ 16:12 This is TINGINYS or LAZYBOY in Lithuania, we make it almost the same: cookies/biscuits, butter, condensed milk, cocoa. Melt the butter with condensed milk, add cocoa and put the biscuits in, mix everything through and leave to cool in a bowl in a fridge. SKANAUS! Bon appetite!
p.s. some like to put raisins and nuts as well or to miss the cocoa thing, then it doesn't get brown. TRY IT!
26. louise Sat 08 Mar 2008 @ 19:01 i didnt try any thing yet but i will i have watch some of yur shows and i think yur a brill chief im going to make my mam a dinner for her birthday on tuesday and maybe a cake two which me luck :D best of luck any advice on what i can make she does not like fish :( she likes beef any ideas on what i cant make her ???
27. sharon ashton Thu 06 Mar 2008 @ 10:23 this is excellent but trick is run your knife under hot tap then cut doesn't crumble as much
28. kate smith Fri 01 Feb 2008 @ 19:38 digestives are graham crackers in the usa the plain ones not honeyed etc !
29. rainyuk Fri 01 Feb 2008 @ 18:28 jlodell12 - From what I understand, a digestive biscuit is pretty much the equivalent to a Graham cracker (so a Brit friend in NC tells me). Same as you'd use for cheesecake base?
30. jlodell12 Tue 08 Jan 2008 @ 21:57 I live in America, what would a digestive biscuit be called here? thanks for the help
31. Colette Wed 26 Dec 2007 @ 17:44 For those of you who were able to slice this, did you add the meringue to the nut mixture or did you melt it with the chocolate and butter? I did the latter, it is delicious but impossible to slide... rocky road texture indeed. BTW I replaced cherries with home made candied orange peel.
32. Moos Sun 23 Dec 2007 @ 17:22 You're right, Eliane!!I love this version of the dutch "arretjescake" more, because the nuts.
You can replace the syrup with Cointreau....for a more "grown up" version!
33. Daniel Sat 15 Dec 2007 @ 09:36 great work jamie
34. Ben Thu 08 Nov 2007 @ 11:35 i made one from ur book jamie love the book and recipes :D:D:D:D:D
35. Kat Tue 06 Nov 2007 @ 13:34 I don't get it - mine sort of crumbled too and it looked nothing like the picture. Mine turned out almost like 'rocky road' and i wouldn't call it cake - more like a slice. Very tasty all the same but a little finicky.
36. EVANTHIA - EYFEMIA Tue 23 Oct 2007 @ 13:54 CAN WE ALSO PUT TO THE MIXTURE A SMALL AMOUNT/ (SLICE) OF GINGER? - NICE CAKE JAMIE...A REAL TEMPTATION!!! HAVE A GREAT TIME WITH THE SHOW.
37. laura Mon 15 Oct 2007 @ 10:33 Im gonna try to make this so i really hope it works. Its for my gcses so betta look gd a taste nice! xX
38. Nicolle_Spiers Wed 10 Oct 2007 @ 15:04 that sounds like a mint cake to do!! so next week for food and nutrition i very well might just have to give it a go!!!!! xx
39. Nicolle_Spiers Wed 10 Oct 2007 @ 15:03 that sounds like a mint cake to do!! so next week for food and nutrition i very well might just have to give it a go!!!!! xx
40. jenny Sat 06 Oct 2007 @ 16:23 i was sloghtly disappointed with this one, as i found it to dry!
41. Ieva Fri 24 Aug 2007 @ 10:36 Hi :) In Lithuania this cake is TINGINYS I like it very much, niam niam :)
42. nancy Sat 11 Aug 2007 @ 18:17 make sure that the chocolate mixture doesnt separate because that is what happened to me :(
43. Eliane Wed 08 Aug 2007 @ 21:46 This looks like a variation on a Dutch recipe called 'Arretjescake'. I'm sorry, but there's no translation for it :-)
The cake was made to use up old biscuits, but now people just make it because they like it.
It's like the recipe above, just leave out everything except butter, chocolate, biscuits and change the syrup for sugar.

44. Sheila Sat 21 Jul 2007 @ 13:41 Am I right in understanding that the meringues are melted with the chocolate?
45. Celia Sun 15 Jul 2007 @ 19:53 I tried this out and when i slced it , it just crumbled Help what went wrong?
46. Brindusa Wed 04 Jul 2007 @ 07:28 this seems to be a very easy dessert to do, i have to try it a.s.a.p.
47. Lorna McMillan Mon 02 Jul 2007 @ 20:50 Yum! I have made it several times and passed the recipe around to friends who all love it!

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