Emmanuelle’s chocolate biscuit cake

Name: Emmanuelle’s chocolate biscuit cake
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 12 h 15 min
Ingredients: ¾ packet biscuits, e.g. butter thins; ¾ packet biscuits, e.g. butter thins; 40 g (1½ oz) meringue; 100 g (4 oz) dark chocolate; 300 g (11 oz) unsalted butter; 2 eggs, lightly beaten; 150 g (5 oz) sugar; 50 g (2 oz) cocoa powder

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
13 hr

Appears in

Chocolate

By Trish Deseine

Published 2003

About

The key ingredient of this cake makes it a real favourite with the children; it also meets with the wholehearted approval of adults. Best cut in very thin slices.

Ingredients

¾ packet biscuits, e.g. butter thins
40 g (1½ oz) merin

Cake
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Break the biscuits and meringue into small pieces by hand. It is important they do not disintegrate into powdery crumbs; they should be uneven pieces measuring about 1 cm (½ inch).

Melt the chocolate with the butter in a microwave oven or bain-marie, and leave to cool. Add the eggs, sugar and cocoa powder and stir well. Line the loaf tin with cling film and add the mixture, pressing it