Kids Kraft: Chocolate Refridgerator Cake

You will need:

~ Ingredients ~

175g unsalted butter (chopped into small chunks)

150g chocolate (broken into pieces)

2 tablespoons of golden syrup

250g digestive biscuits

200g cherries (cut into quarters)

~Equipment~

Prep; knife, chopping board, scales

Microwave safe bowl

Wooden spoon

Polythene bag & tea towel

Rolling pin

Greased baking tin (aprox 20cm x 30cm)

What to do:

1. Put the butter and chocolate in a microwave proof bowl and zap it for 60 seconds.  Stir with a wooden spoon and cook in microwave for a further 60 seconds. Stir with a wooden spoon.  The butter and the chocolate should have melted by now - if it hasnt keep cooking on 30second intervals until it has.  Add the golden syrup and stir until it is all mixed in together.

2.  Place the biscuits in a polythene bag and cover with a tea towel, then crush them with a rolling pin.

3.  Add the biscuit crumbs to the wet mix and stir until all the crumbs have been coated.  Add the cherries and mix them well.

4. Spread the mixture into a greased baking tin and press down with the back of the spoon.

5.  When the mixture is completely cool, cover with clingfilm and refrigerate for at least 2hrs.

6.  When the cake has set cut it into squares.

7.  Enjoy your cake!!

*Try swapping/combining the cherries with raisins, nuts or mini marshmellows - let your imagination run free.

*Try using different chocolate for differnent colours and taste, or combine 2 mixes to create swirls in the baking tin.

*After cutting you could package them up into boxes or bags and give away as gifts

*If you have really small children the adult could do all the cutting up beforehand, then the rest is pretty much safe for the little ones to do by themselves; although the mixture shouldn't get hot I do recomend that an adult takes the mixture out of the microwave.

My daughter made this at school and then came home with the recipe to make it again.  We have to take a picture, print it off and send it back in to school.  Both my daughter (6) and my son (3) stood on steps at the counter and made it together - yet again I forgot to take photos so we're going to make it again closer to Christmas so we can wrap the squares up and give them away as gifts.

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