Recipe for chocolate crunch

sindy9001

I woul love the recipe.

mashup_2

There is a tread earlier in this forum that has loads of school days recipes and I am sure what you are looking for is there. Perhaps one of the "board prefects" could merge the threads for you?

floyd

There are some here http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=15419&highlight=chocolate+concrete

mashup_2

I found the ones with egg in were not as I remembered try the eggless recipes.

rachbc

chocolate concrete was like hard sponge! Perhaps you're just remembering it differently...

floyd

I remember chocolate concrete as being like overcooked chocolate shortbread

Scarlett25

School Dinners by Becky Thorn has a recipe for chocolate concrete in it - her recipe uses plain flour, caster sugar, melted butter or marg, cocoa and water. I don't know if that's the same as what you had at school jakecake!

emmie1234

Hiya, this is me fella's moms recipe for chocolate concrete, he does the baking here and this tastes how I remember it from school!

10 1/2 oz self raising flour
8 3/4 oz sugar
8 3/4 marg
1 oz cocoa/drinking chocolate
1 egg beaten

melt margerine and add to dry ingredients
add beaten egg
press into a shallow tin
brush with water and sprinkle with sugar
bake in the oven for 20 mins on gas mark 1 or 2 depending on how crunchy you like it!!

hth

Em

emmie1234

just been informed that the recipe actually comes from his Aunty who used to be a dinner lady! Enjoy ! tis yummy with Mint Custard

kidcurry

This recipe is foolproof, and fits nicely into 2 x 8" square tins, for chunky squares! (or half the recipe for one tin)

8oz hard marg (stork etc, for some reason, butter does not taste as good!)
1 tsp good vanilla extract
11oz S R flour
8oz white sugar (caster is best)
Extra sugar for sifting
2oz cocoa

Melt marg, then stir in vanilla.
Sift flour into a bowl with cocoa, add sugar.
Pour in the melted marg and mix well.
Tumble into the tin, then press down well and flatten the surface.
Sprinkle the top with water, then shake sugar over the water - this will give it that crispy, white, sugary topping.
Bake on 180 or gas 4 for 25 mins ish.


This is proper choc concrete - it doesn't rise at all, and has a very dark colour, tastes really chocolatey.