What is the recipe?!

Laneyboo

I'm wondering if anybody here might be able to help me out..

There is a local garden centre that i sometimes visit and the cafe does huge slabs of this traybake type cake. Its usually called some kind of sweetie i.e mars bar, twix, rolo, caramac cake and they are very similar tasting so i know the recipe is just a base and whoever makes it uses different sweets each time.

To try and give you an idea its crumbly on the bottom, almost like digestive, butter, syrup type tiffin but with no fruit and whatever sweet theyve chosen chopped through it and then usually a marbled white choc and milk chocolate top. Typical no-bake type of thing but for the life of me whenever i try it just never works out right.

Does anybody know what im on about lol or even could make a guess at what this recipe is? I jokingly said could i have the recipe and the woman at the till sternly said its a secret end of... i WILL replicate this cake at home, its £2 odd a square at the garden centre!!?

Trinny

I think you are talking about millionaires shortbread - this is a layer of digestive biscuit - like cheescake base on the bottom, then a layer of caramel - made from condensed milk and then spread with a layer of chocolate - could be melted caramac etc.

Look up the recipe section - if not then google the recipe for millionaires shortbread. You are right - you should be able to make it for well under 2 quid a slice :eek:

If its not quite right - then you should be able to vary the recipe - by chopping the choc and mixing it into the base - missing out the caramel layer and spreading the top with white/milk chocolate.

Trin

Teresa77

Sounds like Malteser (or other sweet) cke to me... I think it's an old NIgella recipe?

How to make Chocolate Malteser Cake:


85g (3oz)
Butter
2 tbsp
Golden syrup
2 tbsp
Cocoa powder
170g (6oz)
Digestives, crushed
1 x175g
Bag Maltesers, half crushed & half left whole



Method
1. Melt the butter and golden syrup in small saucepan.
2. Stir in the cocoa powder, digestives, and crushed Maltesers until well combined.
3. Allow to cool slightly, then stir through the whole Maltesers.
4. Line a tin with Cling film or greaseproof, pour in the mixture and press down well, but be careful not to crush the whole Maltesers.
5. Chill until set. About 2 hours.
6. Slice the chocolate malteser cake into chunky fingers and serve.

Pink.

Hi Laneyboo,

It sounds like caramel (or millionaires) shortbread to me too. There are links to recipes on this thread that may help:

Caramel Shortbread Recipe

Pink

psso

Ermm, sorry to disagree with Trinny and pink winged, but millionaires shortbread has a SHORTBREAD base not digestives, and Laneyboo doesn`t mention caramel either.

Our local garden centre has these kind of things as well, verrrry expensive for what they are.

Think the recipe sounds more like one i have somewhere called chocolate fridge cake. It`s similar to the malteser one posted, but you just top the base with the kind of chocolate bar you prefer melted down and poured over. I know there`s a choc fridge cake recipe on the BBC food website which has fruit in but you could just leave it out.

AudreyHepburn_2

I agree with you psso!

It sounds like the Nigella recipe, topped with an extra layer of chocolate that Theresa kindly posted or a chocolate topped fridge cake you helpfully suggest.

The link "Pink" posted is two pages of discussing making caramel and shortcake with this recipe link buried in the middle. :-(
http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/home/recipes/03/toffee-topped-shortbread

dixie_dean_2

Threaten them until they give you the secret. Take a rake. A woman wanting cake, armed with a rake is a scary prospect.

Laneyboo

dixie_dean wrote: »

Threaten them until they give you the secret. Take a rake. A woman wanting cake, armed with a rake is a scary prospect.

LOL!!!!!!! i'll resist the temptation to do just that and think i'll give that malteser cake recipe a go..

its definately not millionaires shortbread though, i'm quite the connoisseur of that so know it well thanks though everyone!

psso

Senior moment time - forgot my SIL is restaurant manager in a garden centre, could have asked her for the secret recipe, except she`s on her hols in Canada and I can`t afford the cost of a phone call :rotfl::rotfl:

Note to self - remember to ask for it when she comes home. Might have to threaten her with rake :eek: ?

**purpleprincess**

Something like this?? I know what you mean though, this little shop by my old work did something like this and it was lush, expensive too! And could not work out the recipe, she wouldn't give it to me either!!

elf06

I did something like this for a charity do and it is a tray bake tiffin thing. If I could find the recipe I would post it but it is basically digestives, butter, condensed milk, raisins all melted down then covered in choc.......
where did I put that recipe?????