Simply stunning chocolate fridge cake
By Sarah Cook
The beauty of this pudding is the simplicity of the ingredients, put together stylishly. Use chocolate biscuits and a Baileys mascarpone cream
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Prep:35 mins
Cook:10 mins
plus overnight chilling - Serves 12
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 858
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fat 62g
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saturates 39g
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carbs 63g
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sugars 40g
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fibre 4g
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protein 8g
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salt 0.7g
Ingredients
- 200g bar dark chocolate, broken into chunks
- 700ml double cream
- 5 boxes good milk chocolate biscuits, 48 biscuits in total (we used Marks & Spencer's All butter Fairtrade double chocolate chip cookies), or to make your own see tip, below
- 400g mascarpone
- 5 tbsp Baileys
- 5 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
Tip
Make your own cookiesMix 250g plain flour, 300g golden caster sugar, 100g cocoa powder and half tsp salt in a bowl. Gently melt 100g dark chocolate and 100g butter together, then stir into the dry ingredients, followed by 2 large beaten eggs. Add chocolate chips if you wish, then space heaped tbsps of the mixture onto parchment-lined baking trays and bake at 180C/160C fan/gas 4 for 12-15 mins. Makes 48 cookies – enough for the pud.
Method
Melt the chocolate and 150ml of the cream together in a small pan. Cool until spreadable, then use to sandwich pairs of the cookies together.
Choose a cake stand or flat plate to assemble your cake. Tip the remaining cream, the mascarpone, Baileys and icing sugar into a big bowl, and use an electric hand whisk to beat until thick and the mixture is just holding its shape.
Arrange some of your cookie sandwiches to make a base that almost covers the plate. Dot a little of the cream under each, and stick into position. Spread or dollop over a good layer of cream, then add another layer of cookies, a little smaller than the first. To get a neat finish, choose a front to your cake – and always start by arranging the outside ring of cookies from there (then you can snap cookies in half to fill in the middle). Repeat, making the layers smaller each time, until you finish with a single cookie and a dollop of cream on top! Chill in the fridge overnight.
