chocolate fridge cake with pecan and meringues

method

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 20 x 30cm deep plastic container with plastic wrap, leaving plenty of extra wrap 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 cubes or slices.

This cake can be kept in an airtight container for a few days, and it actually improves in flavor.

Tip: For an even fruitier cake, you can add some other dried fruits like apricots, figs, cranberries, apples or prunes along with the nuts and cherries!

ingredients

• 7 ounces digestive biscuits
• 4 ounces whole pecans, roughly chopped
• 4 ounces pistachio nuts, peeled
• 10 glacé cherries (or dried sour cherries)
• 2 ready-made meringue nests, smashed up
• 5 ounces unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon golden syrup
• 7 ounces good-quality dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids), broken into pieces

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1. by KayCee on Tue 09 Aug 2011 @ 23:27

I guess you could use the Arrowroot biscuits from the baby food second in place of the Digestive biscuits

2. by gina on Mon 11 Jul 2011 @ 22:58

what is golden syrup?<br />

3. by Bogie on Sun 19 Dec 2010 @ 20:55

What size meringue nests are you meant to use?

4. by The Big Rowlski on Fri 10 Dec 2010 @ 10:36

Digestive biscuits are a type of biscuit. They say 'Digestive' on their packaging and can be found in all UK-based food shops. If you live somewhere that does not have this particular type of biscuit use something else. Any fairly plain, non-salty biscuit will work.

5. by Weewan on Mon 29 Nov 2010 @ 20:31

meringue nests are beaten egg whites formed into little piles shaped like bird nests & baked. I've seen them in grocery stores. What are digestive biscuits?

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