Recipe: Yummy Tiffin (refrigerator cake)

Tiffin (refrigerator cake). In a large saucepan, melt the butter, sugar, syrup and cocoa. Stir through the biscuits and raisins. Great recipe for Tiffin (refrigerator cake).

A great Sunday afternoon treat after you've dog walked with friends or family. Remember you need to make it in advance, as it needs at least four hours chilling time. Try and go for a dark. You can cook Tiffin (refrigerator cake) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Tiffin (refrigerator cake)

1. You need of unsalted butter.
2. Prepare of golden syrup.
3. Prepare of dark chocolate (broken into pieces).
4. Prepare of egg.
5. It's of digestive biscuits.
6. It's of whole walnuts or pecans.
7. You need of glacé cherries.
8. Prepare of sultanas.

Tiffin is a form of cake-like confection composed of crushed biscuits (most commonly digestive biscuits), sugar, syrup, raisins, cherries and cocoa powder, often covered with a layer of melted chocolate. Unlike regular cakes, Tiffin does not require baking. Instead, following preparation of the mixture, the confection is chilled until set. Chocolate Tiffin is great for teacher gifts, cake sales and hampers at any time of year.

Tiffin (refrigerator cake) step by step

1. Line a loaf tin with greaseproof paper..
2. Melt the butter and syrup together in small saucepan until they get to a gentle boil..
3. Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Then add the syrup and butter, and give it all a thorough mix..
4. Beat the egg slowly and continuously into the chocolate..
5. Break up the biscuits. Add the walnuts, sultanas, and cherries..
6. Pour the melted chocolate on to the biscuit mix and give it all a good mix..
7. Pour the chocolate mix into the loaf tin. Decorate with some walnuts or cherries. Leave to set in the fridge for about 4 hours. Remove from the fridge, and cut into large slices. You should get about 10 slices. Serve chilled..
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For all the flavours of Christmas add a few cranberries, use ginger biscuits instead of digestives, chuck in some nuts and half a teaspoon of cinnamon. Drizzle with white icing and pop a strawberry on top for Summer fêtes. Tiffin or refrigerator cake I've been baking mostly healthy treats this month but I did promise a few naughty treats as well. This is so easy to make but oh so naughty. It's a refrigerator cake or tiffin and it's a really simple no bake recipe which you can easily prepare in advance.