i made this the other day. Very easy to make; i substituted the maple syrup for the golden syrup. It is SOOOOO good with an expresso after lunch or a glass of milk after dinner - it's simply sinful.

Just made this fab cake now and its currently setting in the fridge, Hope it turns out as good as it looks, wish me luck Xxx

Hi Jamie, I was just surfing around for recipes and I found this person's recipe eerily similar to yours : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1379575/Recipe-Williams-chocolate-crunch-cake.html#comments Would this be considered as copyright infringement or something similar to that?

OMG! I am so trying this out LOL!

I'll try this dessert~ it looks Yummy~ :9

I did it today, but it did not look like the picture at all, i used the exact amounts of ingredients but it was very small, not for 16 servings like Jamie said.
Any comments about it?

its very goooooooooooooooooooooood

How long does it take to set in the fridge?

HAI

tasty...i love it...

I've looked through the comments and found out that there's something like this dessert in Latvian, Romanian and other cuisines. In fact, in Russia we also make chocolate fridge cakes with biscuits, rolled in the form of a "chocolate salami' - one of the brightest childhood memories =)

it looks pretty much like Latvian sweet roll 'salda brunete'

it looks pretty much like Latvian sweet roll 'salda brunete'

i have made the cake , melt the meringue with the chocolate mixture , but the truth is it looked nothing like the picture. i thing the next time i will try it with the double amount of chocolate. The taste was great!!!!!!!

Can I make it without golden syrup?

If you can't find digestive biscuits do try McVities Rich Tea biscuits

I MADE THIS CAKE THE OTHER DAY BUT SINCE I LIVE IN VENEZUELA COULDN'T FIND ANY OF THE INGREDIENTS.. SO INSTEAD OF PISTACHIO AND PECANS, I USED ALMONDS AND CHESTNUTS... INSTEAD OF GOLDEN SYRUP I USED A PEACH FLAVORED HONEY AND INSTEAD OF CHERRIES I USED DRIED CRAMBERRIES AND OTHER DRIED FRUIT... LET ME SAY IT WAS FABULOUS ANYWAY.

SO THANKS JAMIE EVEN IF IT WASN'T THE EXACT RECIPE.....

Looks real good, but Where is the Meat? I like eating meat,

pretty much like our "mottled hooch" or "kirju koer". has bisquits, marmalade, chocolate, butter, cocoa and milk in it.

I made my first stir-fry this evening. Unfortunately, it was before I found this website so I just had to wing it. I guess I did ok, I added the onion (albeit not enough) and garlic, did not fry on high for a couple of minutes, figured out it should be a medium heat, added the veggies and soba noodles, then took out some of the noodles so the heat would get to the frozen veggies and it turn out ok. I also added one serving of baked tofu, cubed, to the mix. It came out ok but now I know how to make it right. After all, it looked so easy on tv.

Kudos to Jamie on trying to help us learn how to eat healthier. I just turned semi-vegetarian (I still eat cheese, fish and eggs) and love knowing how it will help me.

Thanks Jamie.

Nancy

As a Canadian living in the U.S., I was able to find Digestives at any Cost Plus / World Market store. I'm sure graham crackers would work but Digestives do have a different flavour and are worth a trip to World Market. Look for the round cookie packages.

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 :)

I tried this for the first time today, though I bought Mammoth Pecans and I never cut them and the are poking out everywhere!!

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...

what can I use instead of golden syrup? I don't think that's available in austria...would honey work?

i might make it at my sleepover!

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*

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!!!

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. ;)

Wow!
I become very popular at my work! pepole are in love with that cake!!
Tahnks Jamie!

I love fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

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.

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

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!

This dessert is incredible! And you too)))) love u

Hello (:
this recipe is baree mint man
"womanizer"
great recipe :D
loves.x

verry good dessert,

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

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' !!!

...hey chef..how are you..?
....i hope u doing great...
..i from malaysia..
..i love 2 cook...
..butt not as are professional..

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!

Hi Jamie! Thanks that you are:) I have all your books. From Russia with love:)

digestives are not graham crackers, in canada they are 2 different biscuits

Looks nice... taste likes shit...

DIPESH

This is scrummy. They are very good.

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!

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 ???

this is excellent but trick is run your knife under hot tap then cut doesn't crumble as much

digestives are graham crackers in the usa the plain ones not honeyed etc !

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?

I live in America, what would a digestive biscuit be called here? thanks for the help

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.

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!

great work jamie

i made one from ur book jamie love the book and recipes :D:D:D:D:D

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.

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.

Im gonna try to make this so i really hope it works. Its for my gcses so betta look gd a taste nice! xX

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

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

i was sloghtly disappointed with this one, as i found it to dry!

Hi :) In Lithuania this cake is TINGINYS I like it very much, niam niam :)

make sure that the chocolate mixture doesnt separate because that is what happened to me :(

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.

Am I right in understanding that the meringues are melted with the chocolate?

I tried this out and when i slced it , it just crumbled Help what went wrong?

this seems to be a very easy dessert to do, i have to try it a.s.a.p.

Yum! I have made it several times and passed the recipe around to friends who all love it!