Tiffin recipe please?

skylight

chuckles1066 wrote: »

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Younger members won't have a clue what I'm laughing about; older members who know who Sir Sidney RoughDiamond, Private Widdle et al were, will understand.

Erm.... I never knew Tiffin was even a real cake!!! I always thought it was a humourous reference to the "activity" in the film...... (I owe MIL an apology.... I always smirked at her - and still never cottoned on)

thriftlady_2

AKA chocolate biscuit cake, no-bake chocolate cake, fridge cake;)




Lady Roughdiamond 'Call me an elephant!'
Sir Sidney Roughdiamond 'You're an elephant'

slowlyfading

Me and OH went to Co$ta Coffee for a treat a couple of days ago and he got a chocolate tiffin to eat. He really enjoyed it and I was wondering if anyone had a recipe? It was chocolate, biscuits and raisins so I was thinking it might be straight forward!

Thanks in advance

Penelope_Penguin

slowlyfading wrote: »

Me and OH went to Co$ta Coffee for a treat a couple of days ago and he got a chocolate tiffin to eat. He really enjoyed it and I was wondering if anyone had a recipe? It was chocolate, biscuits and raisins so I was thinking it might be straight forward!

Thanks in advance

It's sometimes known as chocolate biscuit cake

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add this to the existing thread to give you more recipe ideas. I have a new recipe that goes down very well; I'll post it later

slowlyfading

Thanks Penny!

destroyerofdebt2011

we always called it refridgerator cake in our house and its a great recipe to teach young kids as other than melting the chocolate and the treacle etc (which we do in the micro for safety) theres no hot saucepans involved just a bit of stirring and lots of licking yummy chocolate of the inside of mixing Bowls.

Its also nice to mix the recipe up a bit and if u like a very sweet version swap the biscuits for Ginger nuts and the fruit for dried appricots and the milk chocolate to white still rather yummy !!

Diflower

I don't make it too often because I'm terrible at eating it;)

Made one the other day though, and used part shortbread, part Nice biscuits (from sburys basics pack), plus a few crumbled amaretti left from Christmas. For the fruit a few chopped apricots plus a handful of finely chopped crystallized ginger (still using a rather large bag dated 2009).
Oh and the chocolate topping was sburys basics too, half dark half milk.
Really yummy variation.
I always check the recipe for the weight of biscuits & fruit, then just use whatever I have/fancy. You can swap some of either for nuts, good way to use the e.g. the last few bits of walnut pieces in a bag.

It's still really good at its plainest, using Rich tea biscuits and some raisins.