Is it acceptable to be posting festive recipe ideas yet? I hope so as these chocolate squares were pretty amazing.
Baking Mad contacted me recently to see if I would like to recreate, in my own style a recipe from their extensive website. Having had a browse through the hundreds of lovely bakes and cakes, I stumbled across one for Chocolate Honeycomb Squares. I wanted to give the recipe my own festive twist so added some halved glace cherries, mincemeat and a dusting of snowy icing sugar on top. I also used half dark chocolate and half milk chocolate to cut through the sweetness of the cherries and mincemeat.
The bars keep really well in the fridge (up to 2 weeks) so are an ideal make ahead treat or gift. If you wanted to make them more 'adult', you could try using Amaretti biscuits instead of the honeycomb and brandy soaked raisins instead of the glace cherries. Enjoy, these are too good.
Chocolate Honeycomb Mincemeat Squares
Ingredients: for 16 squares
100g Butter
100g Milk Chocolate
100g Dark Chocolate
3 TBSP Golden Syrup
225g Digestives, crushed
120g Honeycomb (Maltesers)
100g Glace Cherries, halved
2 TBSP Mincemeat
Topping:
75g Dark Chocolate
100g Maltesers, halved
Method:
Step 1: Line a 20x20cm tin with greaseproof paper. Melt the butter, chocolate and syrup in a pan over a low heat.
Step 2: Mix in the cherries, digestives, maltesers and mincemeat into the melted chocolate and press into tin. Put into a fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
Step 3: Melt the topping chocolate in a pan then spread onto the set chocolate biscuit base and place the halved maltesers on top. Set, dust with icing sugar if you wish and cut into 16 squares.
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7 comments:
Amaretti - are you kidding! Maltesers every time, that looks just fantastic just the way it is. Seriously, I'm sure that the 'adult' version would be great too I just can't see past those maltesers!!!
That looks and sounds utter,y delicious. An adult version sounds great for Christmas gifts!
Ooh it ticks all my boxes! I have about a 1/4 of a jar of mincemeat so would be put to good use! The squares look delicious, doubt they would last two weeks!
And no not to early, I've been baking some Christmassy bits but not blogged yet due to a backlog!
Oooh! I think I've just found my contribution to the cake stall for the school christmas fair - thank you!
Fabulous! I am a mincemeat and Malteser fiend and this is my perfect recipe!
Love this idea! I always end up with far too much mincemeat, what a great way to use it up in something other than (yet more) mince pies.
These sound (and look) amazing! I'm not normally a big mincemeat fan, but when it's surrounded by all that chocolate and maltesers?! Yum.
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