Scottish Recipes - Chocolate Tiffin

Chocolate Tiffin is one of those yummy tray bake dishes

Chocolate Tiffin

and I love it, as its easy peasy to make

Chocolate Tiffin goes by many other names

Biscuit Cake
Chocolate Fridge Cake
No Bake Chocolate Cake

and they were called Traffic Lights in my house growing up.  My mum used to make these for me when I was small, she would cut them into fingers and put a red, yellow and green jelly tot on each rectangle to make traffic lights, I loved them

This sweet treat was something found in bake sales across Scotland and is a favourite treat made with some of my favourite British items, Cadburys Drinking Chocolate, Lyle's Golden Syrup and Digestive Biscuits, how can this not be good?

Cadbury Drinking chocolate and Lyle's Golden Syrup

This recipe was given to me years ago by Susan who I worked with in Woodrow's, Thanks Susan

News flash, every British expat living in the USA needs to know this.... Wal-mart are selling Digestive biscuits in their cookie isle. When I saw them I yelled out "you are kidding me" and started flinging them in my shopping trolley like the crazed expat that I am, they also have chocolate digestives. No way you say, Yes way! Oh and no inflated prices too.....yeah!!!

Digestive biscuits and Chocolate Digestive biscuits

OK back to Chocolate Tiffin

Makes a tray of them


You will need


225g Digestive Biscuits
100g Block of Margarine or Butter (I used Butter)
3 level tbsp Golden Syrup
25g Drinking Chocolate (Cocoa Powder to my USA chums)

Chocolate Tiffin ingredients

Optional
50g glazed Cherries
50g raisins
(you can also add nuts, coconut, dried fruit etc - I opted to stick with no optional extras as its how I remember it)


Topping
200g Chocolate

chocolate

• Lightly grease small baking tray or similar, I used a lasagne dish !!!

• Put biscuits in a plastic food bag and hit with a wooden rolling pin until biscuits are crushed (Sir Scoffs-A-Lot's favourite part, he was my assistant chef today)

crushing the digestives

crushed digestives

• Melt Butter and Syrup together in a pan over heat, set aside to cool slightly

butter and syrup

blended butter and syrup

• In a large bowl, add crushed biscuits, Butter and syrup mixture and drinking chocolate or Cocoa Powder and any optional items. Mix well

biscuit mix

• Place in tray and press down well, put in fridge to cool

pressed into dish

• For the topping, melt the chocolate in a microwaveable bowl and pour over the biscuit mixture, spreading evenly, place back in fridge to cool

chocolate

Melted chocolate

• Once cooled, cut into squares or rectangles

Chocolate Tiffin

Enjoy

This takes me back to my childhood, I loved this stuff and it was just as good as I remember

Hope you enjoy this one too

Angela