Digestives or Rich Teas? Prince William's Chocolate Biscuit Cake
Today Prince William got to have his cake and eat it too. HIs alternative cake, alternative to Kate Middleton's 8-tiered fruit cake iced with 900 flowers, was a childhood favorite, a McVities chocolate biscuit cake.
This unbaked or refrigerator cake is traditionally made with digestives, I'm told, not rich tea biscuits. But the royal family's recipe is apparently a little different. Do you have a history of making chocolate biscuit cake? Which do you use?
I'm gaga for traditional British childhood desserts, nursery food as some have called it. Eton Mess, Biscuit Cake, Banana Flan, are enormously sweet and comforting. They're the perfect sweet to put you at your ease on your wedding day, or any day. Have you given them a try?
Prince William's Chocolate Crunch Cake, created by McVitie''s own head chef, Paul Courtney, was made with secret ingredients which I cannot wait to discover, but until then, I'm content with this recipe I came across in The Daily Mail.
Chocolate Crunch Cake
Ingredients:
4 ounces margarine or butter
10 ounces chocolate
14 ounces condensed milk
Large pack Rich Tea biscuits or digestives or half each
5 glace cherries, chopped (optional)
2 ounces raisins
A variety of chopped nuts
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, crush the biscuits.
2. Stir the cherries, raisins and nuts into the crushed biscuits.
3. In a pan, melt together the margarine, condensed milk and half the bar of chocolate.
4. Pour the chocolate mixture over the biscuit mixture. Stir well until the crushed biscuits are all coated.
5. Line a tin, basin or box with greaseproof or parchment paper. Pour the mixture into it.
6. Freeze for at least two hours or until needed. When needed, take out and leave for two hours.
7. Melt remaining chocolate and spread on top of the cake.
8. Cut into pieces and serve.
The Daily Mail, April 30, 2011
--Tracy Schneider
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Patti Austin on May 30, 2011 at 08:39 PM
I used to think the Royals were uncool.Rich Tea Biscuit Wedding Cake specially commissioned by McVities instantly raises you several pegs in my estimation!I think that we just have to expect that they are going to do weird things from time to time.I have had it do that on a cake that I had seen on most saved and also recently added and I know it was there,but would not open to let me see it.