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May 2020
6:31pm, 10 May 2020
2,424 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Rocky Road without marshmallows Sharlkie - basically butter, chocolate and crushed biscuits mixed with dried fruit or whatever and set in the fridge.
This is my basic recipe - if it's tiffin omit marshmallows. I often make the biscuit amount up with plain cereal like rice crispies or cornflakes as gf biscuits are expensive.
Rocky Road
200g digestive biscuits (Rich Tea can also be used)
135g butter or margarine
200g chocolate – mix of milk and plain
2 tbsp golden syrup
100g mini marshmallows (chopped regular marshmallows work too)
icing sugar, to dust
Optional (up to 100g)
raisins, dried cranberries or any dried fruit
nuts
popcorn
honeycomb, broken into pieces
Grease and line an 18cm square brownie tin with baking paper.
Place 200g digestive biscuits in a freezer bag and bash with a rolling pin or just the side of your fist until they're broken into a mixture of everything between dust and 50p-sized lumps. Set aside.
In a large saucepan melt 135g butter or margarine, 200g dark chocolate and 2-3 tbsp golden syrup over a gentle heat stirring constantly until there are no or almost no more lumps of chocolate visible, then remove from the heat. Leave to cool.
Take the biscuits, 100g mini marshmallows and up to 100g of additional ingredients (dried fruit, nuts, popcorn, honeycomb), if you like, and stir into the chocolate mixture until everything is completely covered.
Tip the mixture into the lined baking tin, and spread it out to the corners. Chill for at least 2 hrs.
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May 2020
6:36pm, 10 May 2020
23,034 posts
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Lizzie W
Decided I didn't have time after all...
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May 2020
6:37pm, 10 May 2020
6,370 posts
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sallykate
We used to call it chocolate refrigerator cake when I was growing up. I suspect the name reflects that it came from a 1950s Good Housekeeping Cookery book, published before fridge was a word.
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May 2020
6:40pm, 10 May 2020
16,042 posts
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Sharkie
Ah - fridge cake! Haven't made that for ages though I used to. Never used marshmallows though - just butter, golden syrup, cocoa and whatever biscuits were around. I have a feeling rice crispies may have been involved in my childhood, though I know rice crispies 'cakes' are different.
They're all ludicrously sweet - and far too sweet for my tastes now.
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May 2020
6:48pm, 10 May 2020
4,082 posts
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Cyclops
I used to make it for the ballet girls - with chopped up mars bars and whole maltesers in.
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May 2020
6:50pm, 10 May 2020
41,511 posts
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Derby Tup
I think I’ve had Maltezers in tiffin before. Glacé cherries go well in it for sure
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May 2020
6:51pm, 10 May 2020
15,963 posts
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Rosehip
Fridge cake  was known as Gt Aunty Hilda's Special cake in this house, mum's Aunt made it post-war using bags of broken biscuits and her own honey instead of syrup and sugar and nan's butter rather than the more modern version.
In this house, it's known as "my married surname" cake because I made it for scout camps from eldest being a beaver to youngest being an explorer (that's about 15 years I think) and it was always in a names cake tin.
When eldest left explorers his last night was everyone making it together in the scout hut kitchen so they could keep having it at camp. I was amazed, thought eveyone knew how to make fridge cake!
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May 2020
6:53pm, 10 May 2020
15,964 posts
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Rosehip
I tried the cream and lemonade scones this weekend, they taste fab but didn't rise much and are a bit stodgy, not sure what I did wrong and will have to keep trying until I get it right!
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May 2020
6:54pm, 10 May 2020
16,752 posts
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GimmeMedals
It's a long time since I made chocolate refrigerator cake - we probably had the same 1950s GH cookery book, SK.
The flapjack came out of the tin without breaking up 👍 I'm at work this week so little chance of more baking so that should keep us going until the weekend.
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May 2020
7:47pm, 10 May 2020
1,914 posts
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idle_wilder
I may well bake this week - probably something involving chocolate orange as I have 3 stashed away in my box (maybe shortbread biscuits or brownies). Really want to try making millionaires shortbread, but there is not a tin of condensed milk to be found anywhere around here.
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