Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Chocolate and Amaretti Slice
Dom is celebrating the second birthday of Belleau Kitchen, his superb food and cooking blog. So Random Recipes #15 has gone all cakey- bakey in a birthday kind of way!
I piled up a selection of my baking books, praying that the macaron book would not be the one picked, anyway I neednt have worried because the random number picker chose #1 which is The Best of Cadbury Chocolate Cooking.
Opening the book it fell open at a page 77 with a choice of four delicious recipes. I chose to make Bournville and Amaretti Slice but as I didnt use Bournville chocolate but a generic brand which is why I have called it
Chocolate and Amaretti Slice
175g Amaretti biscuits
3 tablespoons Amaretto Di Saronno liqueur
275g plain dark chocolate, broken into pieces
300ml double cream
75g unsalted butter, softened
50g caster sugar1. Line a 500g loaf tin with clingfilm. Crush the biscuits into small pieces. Put them in a bowl and pour over the liqueur.
2. Melt the chocolate and half the cream. Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Stir in the chocolate and cream mixture, then the remaining cream.
3. Spoon about one third of the chocolate mixture into the tin. Scatter half of the biscuit pieces over the top. Spread half of the remaining mixture, then add the remaining biscuits. Finish with the remaining chocolate mixture.
4. Chill the chocolate cake over night until set. Invert on to a plate and peel off the film.
5. You can decorate by creating scribbly lines with melted chocolate piped across the top. Or you can just slice and serve because its quite rich enough as it is!
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