Chocolate Truffle Slice

My friend Catherine (pictured here plonked in the middle of members of my family)

is an amazing baker. I frequently have to ask advice because basically I am fairly new to baking.
I used to bake for the kids when they were little but then the only person eating it was me… so I bought packets of biscuits which they loved. Especially Mallow puffs... Chocolate covered marshmallow on a shortbread cookie.
The best part for them was to crack the biscuit on their heads, and then pick off the broken pieces of chocolate...then eat those little pieces slowly AND then devour the rest.Not my cup of tea but there you go.

So I have just been to visit Catherine and she gave me some pieces of this divine Chocolate Slice.
So so rich. It would please Ina Garten and even Paul Deen, just laden full of calories.
She got the recipe from a wonderful New Zealand Cook Book Writer
Annabel Langbein click here for information about Annabel

The book is called the “Best of Annabel Langbein” and this is a
Chocolate Truffle Slice.
Of course as is true of most recipes Annabel was inspired by a friend of hers Louise.
So onto the recipe

125 gms butter
¼ cup caster sugar
2 tablespoons golden syrup
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons drinking chocolate
1 tablespoons cocoa
1 pkt plain sweet biscuits
1 ½ cups chocolate cake crumbs (quite acceptable to buy that cake from the supermarket)
Nip whisky or rum
60 gms cherries (Catherine used Craisins they’re pretty good)
1/3 cup raisins

250 gm dark chocolate

Crush the biscuits between 2 pieces of plastic to a fine crumb
Heat butter, sugar and syrup
Add drinking chocolate, cocoa, ½ of the biscuit
Add rest of ingredients and mix

Press into a 20cm swiss roll tin

Then melt the dark chocolate in a bowl over simmering water
Spread over the slice to ice

Allow to set
Cut with a sharp hot knife.
Store in fridge, in a sealed container.
You’ll be lucky to have any left to share.

This is the last you will hear about my little citrus harvest...in the photo above are the last of my lemons.
Pruned the trees today. Will feed them tomorrow and hopefully I will get fab fruit again next year.